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...misapplied. The first two paragraphs and the last seem to be written in a serious mood and contain so much truth in such a small space that almost every sentence amounts to a truism. The rest of the essay is written in a sort of flippant, serio-comic vein, which is out of place. Honor is too grave a subject to be flippantly treated...
...showed himself a critic of genius. Although Lamb did more, however, for bringing back Sir Thomas Browne and other old writers to life in the sense of causing them to be read again in the nineteenth century, it is not to be forgotten that Lamb struck a happy vein of contemporary criticism as one of the very earliest welcomers of Wordsworth and Coleridge. As for his style, it has often been said not to be original. For that matter what style is original? Lamb's literary manner is indeed compounded of many simples, but the composition is so individually done...
...wealth of allusions, there is little in the elasical literature of antiquity that bears importantly upon the subject. The Hebrew Scriptures abound in these allusiouns. Abraham paid the children of Heth four hundred shekels of silver of the cave of Machpelah. Job says, "Surely there is a vein for silver; the earth hath dust of gold." In the book of Daniel there is an account of the great image which Nebuchadnezzar set up on the plains of Dura, three score cubits in height and six cubits in breadth. Then, too, there is the picture of Solomon's splendor...
...clubs ceases. On the officers who are or will be elected to carry them on we urge the necessity of doing more than has ever been done before to make the coming year a successful one. Something ought to be done to revive the writing of songs of light vein in which, up to within a year or two, Harvard men have been so successful. Without neglecting the demand for "the good old songs" which is so frequently expressed, can we not have some more of the "Hoodoo," "Mrs. Craigin's Daughter," "Wing Tee Wee," or "Debutante" variety...
...company appeared to enjoy their work and put a vein into it that delighted their audience...