The Tuftonian, Volume 26Tufts College, 1900 |
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Page 42
... my own father , and in spite of his well known irascibility he certainly treated me with all the gentleness of one . As I en- tered the study he was sitting at the window watching 42 [ November The Tuftonian . In the First Snow.
... my own father , and in spite of his well known irascibility he certainly treated me with all the gentleness of one . As I en- tered the study he was sitting at the window watching 42 [ November The Tuftonian . In the First Snow.
Page 44
... known - ever . No , " he added almost to himself , " never . " Then after a pause , " It was thirty years ago ; then , in a little back - country town in Ohio , and just such a night as this , only with more wind - more wind . The half ...
... known - ever . No , " he added almost to himself , " never . " Then after a pause , " It was thirty years ago ; then , in a little back - country town in Ohio , and just such a night as this , only with more wind - more wind . The half ...
Page 66
... known , wavered as if she had been struck , upon hearing this speech . She did not even hear the cry of alarm uttered by the old man . Like lightning , the whole scheme flashed through her mind : the innocent old father had been wiled ...
... known , wavered as if she had been struck , upon hearing this speech . She did not even hear the cry of alarm uttered by the old man . Like lightning , the whole scheme flashed through her mind : the innocent old father had been wiled ...
Page 74
... known of our old songs , together with such as seem best of the newer ones , in a book to be sold at a price low enough to permit every student to possess a copy . This book should remove , in great measure , the deplorable inability ...
... known of our old songs , together with such as seem best of the newer ones , in a book to be sold at a price low enough to permit every student to possess a copy . This book should remove , in great measure , the deplorable inability ...
Page 88
... known ; ought to have interrupted our conversation . What right has a German to know French anyway ? Now there's Prince Alberto ! He may be little and brown and monkeyish , and disgusting ( this last under her breath ) , but at all ...
... known ; ought to have interrupted our conversation . What right has a German to know French anyway ? Now there's Prince Alberto ! He may be little and brown and monkeyish , and disgusting ( this last under her breath ) , but at all ...
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Page 79 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow ; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill, A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man.
Page 84 - AH, what is love ? It is a pretty thing, As sweet unto a shepherd as a king ; And sweeter too, For kings have cares that wait upon a crown, And cares can make the sweetest love to frown : Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain...
Page 79 - Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband. — Look you now, what follows : Here is your husband ; like a mildew'd ear, Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes? Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, And batten on this moor?
Page 77 - Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, And batten on this moor? Ha! have you eyes? You cannot call it love, for at your age The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon the judgment; and what judgment Would step from this to this? Sense...
Page 68 - listed, That carries no colours or crest. But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest.
Page 113 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Page 230 - BE and continue poor, young man, while others around you grow rich by fraud and disloyalty ; be without place or power, while others beg their way upward ; bear the pain of disappointed hopes, while others gain the accomplishment of theirs by flattery ; forego the gracious pressure of the hand, for which others cringe and crawl. Wrap yourself in your own virtue, and seek a friend, and your daily bread. If you have, in such a course, grown gray with unblenched honour, bless God, and die.
Page 202 - Gent, being Sick and weak of Body but of perfect Mind and Memory...
Page 77 - Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she, — O God ! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer, — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules...
Page 137 - Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with the most minute exactness, and yet the narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning or untrue.