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...Yaas," said Captain Peregrine, giving this statement his own judicial assent, "the widder 'z but poorly, an' hanged ef I see how she ken weather the winter. In my opinion, suthin' orter be done for her, an' would, if she war n't prouder 'n - all persessed...
...more exact Shaksperian scholars will not accept it as proof of the "lunacy" of either Mr. Dowden or Mr. Furnivall. We do not propose to defend the latter gentleman in the use of language which he doubtless regrets sincerely as do we ourselves; we do not propose to assent to any errors which the New Shakspere Society may have made; but despite the Advocate, and despite Mr. Algernon Charles Billingsgate Bilgewater Swinburne, we still insist that the Society has earned for itself the gratitude, not the abuse, of all Shaksperian students whose opinions are worth any thing...
...section applauds assent. (Fact...
...author of "Fair Rosamond" is not so far wrong after all, for he has rewritten it almost entirely, and those of us who have ever attempted to reconstruct a single scene can, in a measure, estimate his labor. He has, however, as a recompense for his trouble the common assent that the dialogue in "Fair Rosamond" is uncommonly clever. It was very gratifying to receive the cordial support of the Columbia papers, and all of us who are interested in the theatricals themselves, or their worthy object, cannot fail to recognize their generous support and patronage by the ladies...
...thorough test of a half-year's work. These faults appear in their most exaggerated form in one-hour examinations; and, if the proposed changes would make such examinations more prominent (as was suggested in an editorial article in the last Advocate, inserted, as we hear, without the assent of the majority of the board), we regard this fact not only as no recommendation, but as a great objection...