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He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and appointed in 1866 incumbent of St. James's, Marylebone. He has been an indefatigable advocate of the Sunday opening of museums, and a frequent lecturer at the Royal Institution, notably on violins, church bells, and American humorists. He also took a great interest in the Italian Revolution. Mr.
To be sure, in old, dense countries, among a million of good coats, a fine coat comes to be no distinction, and you find humorists.
The critic of the 'Berliner Zeitung' asserted that Mark Twain is loved in Germany more than all other humorists, English or French, because his humour "turns fundamentally upon serious and earnest conceptions of life." It is a tremendously significant fact that the works of American literature most widely read in Germany are the works of striking conjunction! Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mark Twain.
There are, of course, a few, a very few, of our greatest authors who have striven forward to the first place in our Valhalla without the help of the largest reading-class among us; but I should say that these were chiefly the humorists, for whom women are said nowhere to have any warm liking, and who have generally with us come up through the newspapers, and have never lost the favor of the newspaper readers.
Don't you know nothin' about mules? Bite their ears, I tell you," shouted a man from Indianapolis. "Throw some hot water on 'em." "Tie their feet and tails together with a string." "Build a fire under 'em." "Turn the harness around the other way on 'em." "Blindfold 'em." Then the regimental humorists began to get in their work: "Sing 'em the 'Battle Cry o' Freedom."
The publishers believe that this book will have a permanent interest, and will taka its place with the works of the few humorists whom the world agrees to call great.
Not to carry this melancholy list farther, which might be indefinitely prolonged, we close it with the name of Thomas Hood. But not by contest with realities of life alone have humorists been saved from temptations to any dangerous levity; great humorists, as we have said, have generally been earnest men, very grave at heart, and much that they have written has been tragedy in the guise of irony.
The likeness between them cannot be traced further; they were both, it is true, humorists, but there is little in common between the austere and bitter, yet, at the same time, delicious flavour of the one, and the trenchant and graphic, but coarse and rollicking, humour of the other.
It was just like so many children. Sir Dinadan was so proud of his exploit that he could not keep from telling over and over again, to weariness, how the immortal idea happened to occur to him; and as is the way with humorists of his breed, he was still laughing at it after everybody else had got through. He was so set up that he concluded to make a speech of course a humorous speech.
He was one of the finest wits and remarkable humorists of his time. Wit and humor were with him spontaneous, and he bubbled over with them. Mark Twain's faculties in that line were more labored and had to be worked out. Doctor Twichell often furnished in the rough the jewels which afterwards in Mark Twain's workshop became perfect gems.
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