Word: buts
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Brilliant indeed was the appearance of Joaquin Miller (a truly popular poet) in the world of literature. At first, we, in the benighted East, saw the new-born poet only through a cloud of shapeless rumors and perverted facts; but at length the mist cleared away, and disclosed the figure...
But one thing was needed to make him perfect, he must be proved to be the perpetrator of crimes, - and that was done; he had been the leader of a band of robbers, everybody asked him to dinner; he had been accused of murder, his reputation was established. His poetry...
But with the winy breath of roses cheer her,
AGE in America does not generally receive the consideration which it deserves, and it is perhaps natural that we forget to honor, as we should, the venerable society of the Institute, handed down to us through more than a century. Its past history puts it in the foremost rank of...
The object of the present writing is not, however, to point out the faults, but rather the present status and prospects of the society, which warrant the most flattering hopes for its future.