The Lafayette Monthly, Volumen 3Senior Class of Lafayette College, 1872 |
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... language . The opening chapter is a delightful dissertation on the various theories in regard to the origin of the world , hitting off each with one of his happy strokes of good - natured ridicule . Then comes a history of the origina ...
... language . The opening chapter is a delightful dissertation on the various theories in regard to the origin of the world , hitting off each with one of his happy strokes of good - natured ridicule . Then comes a history of the origina ...
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... language . Few , I think , could improve on the comical de- scription of the personal appearance of Ichabod Crane , the Sleepy Hollow schoolmaster , or the picture of the bewildered surprise with which Rip Van Winkle entered his native ...
... language . Few , I think , could improve on the comical de- scription of the personal appearance of Ichabod Crane , the Sleepy Hollow schoolmaster , or the picture of the bewildered surprise with which Rip Van Winkle entered his native ...
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... language . In taking a retrospective view of the past , we see the intellect surely , though often slowly , making advances in all departments of knowledge . This steady and slow development only goes to prove the assertion that ...
... language . In taking a retrospective view of the past , we see the intellect surely , though often slowly , making advances in all departments of knowledge . This steady and slow development only goes to prove the assertion that ...
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... language . The subscribers to their series of publications rapidly increased . New scholars came forward to help edit the works . In 1865 the committee of management offered a prize of two years ' issues of the Society's texts to the ...
... language . The subscribers to their series of publications rapidly increased . New scholars came forward to help edit the works . In 1865 the committee of management offered a prize of two years ' issues of the Society's texts to the ...
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... root ; explain the ea . Give word in other languages of the same root with thâer , waes , hacledha , word , cwêu , gemyndig , gumau , wif , baed , cyring , dael , medo , baer , and any other in the extract 44 EARLY ENGLISH TEXT PRIZE .
... root ; explain the ea . Give word in other languages of the same root with thâer , waes , hacledha , word , cwêu , gemyndig , gumau , wif , baed , cyring , dael , medo , baer , and any other in the extract 44 EARLY ENGLISH TEXT PRIZE .
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Página 226 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die...
Página 126 - Little Jack Horner Sat in a corner Eating a Christmas pie; He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said, "What a good boy am I!
Página 127 - Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing; Was not that a dainty dish To set before the king! The king was in his counting-house, Counting out his money; The queen was in the parlor, Eating bread and honey.
Página 217 - Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
Página 227 - When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave; Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St David's ruined pile; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair!
Página 225 - Sudden the flying jennet wheel, And hurl the unexpected dart. He knew, by the streamers that shot so bright, That spirits were riding the northern light.
Página 7 - The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. "When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value. When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and common-place, these only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with that true friendship which never deceived hope, nor deserted sorrow.
Página 8 - What ! Irving ? thrice welcome, warm heart and fine brain, You bring back the happiest spirit from Spain, And the gravest sweet humor, that ever were there Since Cervantes met death in his gentle despair ; Nay, don't be embarrassed, nor look so beseeching, I sha'n't run directly against my own preaching, And, having just laughed at their Raphaels and Dantes, Go to setting you up beside matchless Cervantes ; But allow me to speak what I honestly...
Página 162 - The immortal ties of Nature shall expire ; These shall resist the triumph of decay, When time is o'er, and worlds have passed away ! Cold in the dust this...
Página 108 - German, Italian, sometimes not a French book in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. I should as soon think...