The Tuftonian, Volume 35Tufts College, 1909 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 11
Page 58
... Frithiof's Saga Translated from the Swedish ERNEST SIEGFRIED SWENSON The poem , of which the account that follows is a prose rendering , found in an old Swedish school - book , is an Epic composed of a series of Cantos . It is written ...
... Frithiof's Saga Translated from the Swedish ERNEST SIEGFRIED SWENSON The poem , of which the account that follows is a prose rendering , found in an old Swedish school - book , is an Epic composed of a series of Cantos . It is written ...
Page 59
... Frithiof ' as one of the most remark- able productions of the age . " Tegner was born in 1782 . Swedish nation , he died in 1846 . Greatly lamented by the King Bele and Thorsten Vikingsson . ELE was the name of a certain king who ruled ...
... Frithiof ' as one of the most remark- able productions of the age . " Tegner was born in 1782 . Swedish nation , he died in 1846 . Greatly lamented by the King Bele and Thorsten Vikingsson . ELE was the name of a certain king who ruled ...
Page 60
... Frithiof . Helge and Halfdan now received the kingdom as their heritage from Bele , and Frithiof inherited from his father the estate on Framnaes , together with many precious things , the foremost of which were the ship Ellida , and a ...
... Frithiof . Helge and Halfdan now received the kingdom as their heritage from Bele , and Frithiof inherited from his father the estate on Framnaes , together with many precious things , the foremost of which were the ship Ellida , and a ...
Page 61
... Frithiof , much angered , that never thereafter should he come to their aid , however great might be the need . And so he returned . King Ring . At this period there ruled over Ringerike , a part of Norway , an old king hight Ring , who ...
... Frithiof , much angered , that never thereafter should he come to their aid , however great might be the need . And so he returned . King Ring . At this period there ruled over Ringerike , a part of Norway , an old king hight Ring , who ...
Page 62
... Frithiof's boldness and warned him of the revenge of her brothers . Neverthe- less , he heeded not , but came often to hold converse with her . Frithiof's Departure . When the kings received intelligence of the actions of Frithiof ...
... Frithiof's boldness and warned him of the revenge of her brothers . Neverthe- less , he heeded not , but came often to hold converse with her . Frithiof's Departure . When the kings received intelligence of the actions of Frithiof ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
ADAMS LEVI American Angantyr Arts The Engineering Blaine Boston Bowdoin called Carnegie Foundation FREDERICK CATALOGUE ADDRESS PHILIP chapel church of tomorrow Chutney co-ed Coleson Crane Theological School dance door Dryad Duggie ERNEST SIEGFRIED SWENSON Everton eyes fellows Frithiof Frithiof's Saga girls GLADYS MARION ADAMS hand HARRY ARTHUR hater heart Hera High-Brow hope Ingeborg James Clarence Jonah Julius Cæsar King Ring LEVI THOMAS HOPKINS LEWIS MORTON light little Freshman living looked Macbeth matriarchy Metcalf Hall mind Miss Dixon morning MORTON WHITING Naiad nation never night Oscar II Peter Fenelon Collier play President DEPARTMENTS Radium School FOR CATALOGUE School The Crane School The Dental School The Graduate School The Medical Scott Secretary Tufts College seemed Shorty Skibo smiled spirit story things thought tion took Tuftonian TUFTS COLLEGE MASSACHUSETTS voice watch water power XXXV
Popular passages
Page 49 - God hath made of one blood all nations of men, and we are His children — brothers and sisters all. We are citizens of these United States, and we believe our Flag stands for self-sacrifice for the good of all the people.
Page 87 - To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day, All in' the morning betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your Valentine...
Page 86 - This morning came up to my wife's bedside, I being up dressing myself, little Will Mercer to be her Valentine ; and brought her name writ upon blue paper in gold letters, done by himself, very pretty ; and we were both well pleased with it. But I am also this year my wife's Valentine, and it will cost me 5/. ; but that I must have laid out if we had not been Valentines.
Page 164 - Is only asked for spirits masked To leap from trees and flowers. And this because with them I dwell In thought, while calmly bent To read the lines dear Earth designs Shall speak her life on ours. Accept, she says; it is not hard In woods; but she in towns Repeats, accept; and have we wept, And have we quailed with fears, Or shrunk with horrors, sure reward We have whom knowledge crowns1, Who see in mould the rose unfold, The soul through blood and tears.
Page 87 - Pagan superstitions, and chiefly by some commutation of their forms, substituted, in the present instance, the names of particular saints instead of those of the women : and as the festival of the Lupercalia had commenced about the middle of February, they appear to have chosen Saint Valentine's day for celebrating the new feast ; because it occurred nearly at the same time.
Page 26 - I am sensible, that if there be anything good about my poetry or prose either, it is a hurried frankness of composition, which pleases soldiers, sailors, and young people of bold and active disposition. I have been no sigher in shades — -no writer of * Songs and sonnets and rustical roundelays, Framed on fancies, and whistled on reeds.
Page 167 - Stop a moment : I seize an idea from the pit. They tell us that discord, though discord, alone, Can be harmony when the notes properly fit : Am I judging all things from a single false tone ? Is the Universe one immense Organ, that rolls From devils to angels ? I'm blind with the sight. It pours such a splendour on heaps of poor souls ! I might try at kneeling with Molly to-night.
Page 87 - ... having suffered martyrdom in the third century, under the emperor Claudius.* Some have conjectured that the custom of devoting this day to Cupid is traceable to the ancient Romans, whose festivals, called Lupercalia, were celebrated about this time. On these occasions, amidst a variety of ceremonies, the names of young women were placed in a box, from which they were drawn by a band of devotees, as chance directed. The practical joking which prevails so universally on the day in question, the...