Word: decameron
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...blessing on you, my son," quoth he. "See here, - most interesting. Decameron, Heptameron, Balzac, Brantome, Paul de Kock, Zola, - all, except the Bible; it is enough to know the light, - you want not the lamp...
...often put to some trouble and expense to obtain the books elsewhere than at the Library. We cannot conceive how any sensible person could object to a student's using some of the books that are now "caged" in the Library. When such books as the much-quoted "Decameron" and Swinburne's beautiful poems are withdrawn from circulation, it is time to protest...
...will not say a raw recruit) to the enormous army of college papers. It needs a good deal of drilling, especially in technical matters; we notice several misprints. It is also given to rather broad statements; as, for instance, that the Canterbury Tales are a liberal translation of the Decameron, and that the "scheme" of Paradise Lost is derived from the "Divina Commedia." The following phrases are remarkable for elegance of expression: "Under the loving surveillance of his blissful guide": "Along the endless corridors of time"; "He (the setting sun) casts his loveliest and softest glances yet once more upon...