A Bagatelle by the Studenst of Columbia CollegeNot by the faculty, 1855 - 47 pages |
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Columbiana. EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION . With great pleasure do the Editors of this beautiful Play present it to the American public . The fact that it is the only one of Delpho's Comedies which is now extant , and that it has never before ...
Columbiana. EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION . With great pleasure do the Editors of this beautiful Play present it to the American public . The fact that it is the only one of Delpho's Comedies which is now extant , and that it has never before ...
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... beautiful in nature . Our object's advancement - our treasury's low - our pupils few , and it strikes me in thus deviating from the vulgar mode of extemporaneous speaking , we will astound our hearers and gain them to our cause . Such ...
... beautiful in nature . Our object's advancement - our treasury's low - our pupils few , and it strikes me in thus deviating from the vulgar mode of extemporaneous speaking , we will astound our hearers and gain them to our cause . Such ...
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... beautiful quotation into his manuscript . ) The human mind has ever been and ever will be a mystery for our weak comprehensions to fathom ! Its many springs and actions are hidden from the mortal ken . Sublime thought ! Beneath this ...
... beautiful quotation into his manuscript . ) The human mind has ever been and ever will be a mystery for our weak comprehensions to fathom ! Its many springs and actions are hidden from the mortal ken . Sublime thought ! Beneath this ...
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... beautiful blue . ( Pours the acid , and the result is , a most verdant green . ) I see , gentlemen , it is useless to show you any experiments ; you still continue that creaking noise with the benches . ( A roar of laughter bursts from ...
... beautiful blue . ( Pours the acid , and the result is , a most verdant green . ) I see , gentlemen , it is useless to show you any experiments ; you still continue that creaking noise with the benches . ( A roar of laughter bursts from ...
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... beautiful jewels of candor and consistency . May you always place implicit confidence in me ! Be a beacon , honored president , be a buoy to warn us from the shoals of a vain and wicked world , and be , too , a shining star to guide us ...
... beautiful jewels of candor and consistency . May you always place implicit confidence in me ! Be a beacon , honored president , be a buoy to warn us from the shoals of a vain and wicked world , and be , too , a shining star to guide us ...
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Abderite Abderite's Alma alumni Answered Jimmy BAGATELLE beautiful beneath Broadway Bull Cabinet rise chair Codfish COLUMBIA COLLEGE Comedy dark Dark Ages diddled doth Drackett E'en extemporaneous Extracts from Comet eyes fifes floor Freshman friend of yore gentlemen gingerbread Greek haired Hobby-horse hands head hear heard hearers heart Henry human illustrious ipsorum manorum James Jim or devil keep our throne King learned Leave the room lecture lecture-room libations lofty lost classic lore MAC-CHIAVELLI PARVUS magnificent merely cried mighty mind mortal Nevermore night nose o'er old green door ominous friend organ-grinder passis penult phasis Play Prex Prof quaff Quoth poor Jimmy regal rush SCENE Scrubbs seat Seniors Shaddle Shaddle's shades Sickathisstomach Sir Johannes Camel Smallhead soft pine bench sophomore spectators Squirm STEPHEN is seen suddenly tapping Taurus tea-bell rings thee thou thought tion truly I implore UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN unto weak wish no reply wont words
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Page 36 - Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, 'Lenore!
Page 38 - Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted— On this home by Horror haunted— tell me truly, I implore— Is there— is there balm in Gilead?— tell me— tell me, I implore!
Page 18 - I pray you, speak not ; he grows worse and worse; Question enrages him : at once, good night : — Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.
Page 35 - Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, " Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you "—here I opened wide the door.
Page 36 - Tis the wind and nothing more!" Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore; Not the least obeisance made he; not an instant...
Page 6 - a the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.