That one of her series of essays upon the American humorists which dealt with Mark Twain appeared in the 'Revue des Deux Mondes' in 1872; in it appeared her admirable translation of 'The Jumping Frog'.
It is the right of humorists to be extravagant; but still common sense, although carefully hidden, ought sometimes to make itself apparent.
There were humorists in America before Mark Twain; there are humorists in America still.
And besides, de Marsay was one of those savage humorists who delight in mischief, as Turkish women in the bath.
The greatesthumorists are also the greatest masters of pathos.
All the great humorists from Charles Lamb to Josh Billings were broken-hearted in their youth.
The spectators of this drama could hardly have been expected to take the pessimism of Mark Twain seriously, and all the more because he totally refuted the old and popular notion that humorists are always melancholy.
Foreigners do not make the same mistake, as how can they when the best known English humorists are so often Scotsmen or Irishmen?
The whole thing is conceived in the spirit of humour, and its author must be ranked among the great humorists of all time.
The smile of Gorki was broader and not so dry as the smile of Mark, but both smiles were distinctly those of fellow-humorists who understood each other.
If all the humorists of England could be induced to laugh at something together.
The family was still seated at tea upon rugs and wraps, and still discussing humorists at play, when Professor Trafford appeared, leaning on a large stick and limping, but resolute, by the church gate.
The Lecture on the Characteristics of Humour had evidently been quite a serious affair, and a very imposing list of humorists and of prominent people associated with their industry had accepted the hospitality of the Literati.
It wouldn't be long, if she did things well, before she had permanent officials and young cabinet ministers mingling with her salad of writers and humorists and the Plessington connexion.
He felt that he who talks to humorists should himself be humorous, and it was his private persuasion that with more attention he might have been, to use a favourite form of expression, "no mean jester.
How much of this was due to the influence of Jean Paul and the other German humorists of the last century, with whom he became acquainted very early, I should not like to say.
Most humorists would have been content to end with the statement, "I could have gone earlier.
Of course all humoristshave an immense common fund.
Think of the different kinds of humorists we find in Shakspeare's comedies.
Our clever newspaper humorists have made a good deal of capital out of the haughty hotel clerk with the diamond stud; but I must confess that I have never yet encountered this individual in the wide swath of my wanderings.
The humorists of the village were of opinion that Heaven had helped Pap because he had helped himself so freely out of other folks' piles.
The humorists knew that Pap might have been the father of the foothills, the George Washington of Paradise, but he wasn't.
Most humorists would have been contented to end with the statement, "I could have gone earlier.
We can turn out academic Sewards by the dozen, and cultured humorists like Lowell and Holmes by the score.
The review closed: It is no business of ours to fix his rank among the humorists California has given us, but we think he is, in an entirely different way from all the others, quite worthy of the company of the best.
I suppose that Mark Twain transcends all other American humorists in the universal qualities.
Neither is there any such distinct group of humorists as the one just mentioned.
Bunner, Frank Stockton, and Mark Twain, we may find that we have no equally popular contemporary humorists of equal excellence; and these are emphatically humorists of a pure American type.
It would be a very different position, and one hardly tenable, to maintain that the land of Mark Twain has produced greater literary humorists than the land of Charles Lamb.
Many would-be American humorists fail entirely to see that exaggeration alone is not necessarily funny.
The contrasts, the energy, the mixture of races in America, the overflowing young life of the continent, doubtless give its humorists the richness of its vein.
One of the most popular of American humorists has elicited from a member of an English audience, who did not quite hear him lecture, a remark of an amusing sort.
The humorists are Puritans at bottom, as well as rustics.
He gave his course of lectures on "the English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century.
Warren was the prince of humorists among us, and would have been so anywhere.
His favorite among English humorists was Sterne, who has a share of these same qualities.
From his mousing among the Elizabethan dramatists and such old humorists as Burton and Fuller, his own style imbibed a peculiar quaintness and pungency.
British “Laune” is cited as such an untranslatable “Idiotism” and the lack of German humorists is noted, and Swift is noted particularly as an English example.
Two of the greatest humorists of the world in illustrative art, Wilhelm Busch and Adolf Oberlaender, stand at the head of those who ushered in the flourishing period of German caricature.
Graham Everitt: English Caricaturists and Graphic Humoristsof the Nineteenth Century.
A sense of humor, then, is the possession of the thinking half, and the humorists must be classified at once with the thinkers.
Agnes Repplier, writing on Humor, speaks of "those beloved writers whom we hold to be humorists because they have made us laugh.
Lincoln differed from professional humorists in the fact that he never knew when he was going to be humorous.
As a rule, the men who have become conspicuous in the country as humorists have excelled in nothing else.
Mr. Lincoln differed from the celebrated humorists of the country in the important fact that his humor was unstudied.
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