In one particular he was regarded as supreme and unapproachable; he was the humourist of his time.
Except, however, that Selwyn was regarded as the first humouristof his time, little was known about him, for scarcely any letters which he wrote had until recently been found.
Of Selwyn thehumourist it would be easy to collect pages of witticisms.
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He lived as a Lodger at the House of a Widow-Woman, and was a great Humourist in all Parts of his Life.
By the bye, I find I have a new name--your maid is a humourist too.
We have a humourist here," he said to himself; and to restore his gravity, he began walking up and down the room; but every time he passed the easel he laughed again.
My friend the humourist would be decidedly de trop.
My friend the humourist again," he said softly; and then he pricked up his ears, for in some back premises he could distinctly hear a very clear, sweet girlish voice.
My friend the humourist has evidently hit it," observed Moritz, airily; but he was looking keenly at Althea.
There lived with us a wagging humourist In that hound's arch dwarf-legged on boxing-gloves.
Low humourist this leader seems; perchance Pitched from his University career, Adept at classic fooling.
It was my good fortune to appear as an avowed humourist in all the great British cities.
Why not be content to buy the works of some really first-class humourist and read them aloud in proper humility of mind without trying to emulate them?
He prefers facts to fancy every time, and as a rule is free from that desire to pose as a humourist which haunts the American mind.
I take this to be part of the trade of anybody labelled a humourist and paid as such.
I have no sympathy whatever with the idea that a humourist ought to be a lugubrious person with a face stamped with melancholy.
But let it be granted that Dickens the humourist is foremost and most precious.
When Schulze, the humourist already mentioned, was here, he questioned the mysterious voice concerning political matters, and got unhesitating answers.
There is an American humourist who once said that "if the lion ever did lie down with the lamb it would be with the lamb inside of him.
It is probably this nobleman who was in the mind of the humourist who pointed out that the shooting of an agent was hardly likely to intimidate that "distant Trojan," the landlord.
Such rapturous inebriety or Olympian incontinence of humour only fires the blood of the graver and less exuberant humourist when his lips are still warm and wet from the well- spring of the Dive Bouteille.
In his immortal study on the affair of the diamond necklace, the most profound and potent humourist of his country in his century has unwittingly touched on the mainspring of Iago's character--"the very pulse of the machine.
There had been a terrible moment in the dormitory, during a thunderstorm, a thunderstorm so vehement that it had awakened them all, when Latham, the humourist and a quietly devout boy, had suddenly challenged Benham to deny his Maker.
A child can become a relative humourist by adding a line or two to the nose of Wellington, or by reversing the nose of the Venus de Medici.
While, however, it is, as we say, easy in a general way to gauge a humourist and find his proper place, it is not easy to bring Sterne under a classification.
She shows that it is possible to paint a low-class humourist as rich in the new cosmic humour as any one of Dickens's is rich in the old terrene humour, and yet without one Dickensian touch.
And naturally what is such a perennial source of amusement to the absolute humourist he gets to love.
It is the great humourist Circumstance who causes Mrs. Shandy to think of the clock at the most inopportune moment, and who, stooping down from above the constellations, interferes to flatten Tristram's nose.
No personal calamities or distresses (of which that humourist had his share in common with the unjocular part of mankind) could altogether keep his humour down.
The humourist was clearly so pleased with his jest that no further debate was to be apprehended, and his wife went out to write the letter.
Her report gave Mr Craigie the strongest sensation that had stirred that good-natured humourist for many a day.
Indeed, were it not for the Spanish peasant's relish of "Don Quixote," one might be tempted to think that the great humourist was not looked upon as a humourist at all in his own country.
Fancy a humourist married to a woman who cannot see a joke!
His manners, it is true, are tinctured with some strange inconsistencies; and he may be justly termed an humouristin a nation of humourists.
This Humourist gives up all the Compliments which People of his own Condition could make to him, for the Pleasures of helping the Afflicted, supplying the Needy, and befriending the Neglected.
This Humourist keeps to himself much more than he wants, and gives a vast Refuse of his Superfluities to purchase Heaven, and by freeing others from the Temptations of Worldly Want, to carry a Retinue with him thither.
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