Word: de
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Lionel, his aid-de-camp; a manslayer and a lady-killer. All he asks is a chance, W. K. Draper-Thibaut, Joan's papa, and a tassel on his daughter's apron string, G. C. Adams...
...asking, after reading "The Duchess Amelia," just published by Messrs. Osgood and Co. Miss Kate Field, who read this novel from advance proof sheets, and expressed great interest in it, surmises that "Barrett Wendell" is Marion Crawford, who has amused himself by bringing out a novel under a nom de plume...
Yesterday, Demosthenes' De Corona was begun in Greek...
BOSTON MUSEUM.- Edwin Booth in "Ruy Blas" and "Don Cxsar de Bazan." Performance...
...remember once reading, during the evening, an essay of several pages length, and, on going to bed, repeating it word for word, from beginning to end. De Quincey immortalized himself by his wonderful visions. There is that remarkable work of Cicero's on the vision of Scipio, a work that I have often thought must have suggested to Richter the idea embodied in his well-known Dream of The Universe. Bunyan is continually saying, "Now I saw in my dream." And thus a thousand and one instances might be cited, in which, merely as a flight of the imagination...