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...which Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, and one Giles Hemming plot, preach, and elope, respectively. The idea is well bandled; Mr. Nes is perhaps least fortunate in his dialogue, a strange mixture of modern phrases and what is apparently intended for seventeenth-century English. It may be doubted whether a Devon peasant ever could have said "how him an' me kin write verses an' ring a bell t' any tune." The story is nevertheless entertaining...

Author: By W. C. Greene ., | Title: Current Advocate Uniformly Good | 4/14/1916 | See Source »

...feeling the heroes of the Titanic; Mr. Wright pictures the evening with the simplicity of a master; and Mr. Thayer's snowflakes dance with lightness akin to the dancing of Herrick's creation. And with the thought of him comes a vision of Dean Prior, remote in lovely South Devon, its ancient church, the vied tower, the churchyard, and the vicarage garden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD MONTHLY REVIEW | 2/3/1913 | See Source »

...having final examinations on Friday and Saturday mornings will take them at the Devon Inn. Assistant Dean Yeomans will serve as proctor for these...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRACK SQUAD STARTS TODAY | 5/29/1912 | See Source »

...Gaddis '12, and Coach Donovan will accompany these men. They will spend the night at the Hotel Cumberland in New York City and tomorrow will leave at 10 o'clock for Philadelphia. Arriving in the latter city at 12 o'clock, the men will go to the Devon Inn, which is in Devon, a suburb of Philadelphia, and will stop there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRACK SQUAD STARTS TODAY | 5/29/1912 | See Source »

...Lawless '13, F. H. Leslie '12, A. W. Moffat '13, F. B. Waller '13, and H. M. Warren '13. Manager W. Tufts, Jr., '13 and Coach Quinn will accompany them. Arriving in Philadelphia at 6 o'clock they will join the rest of the track team at the Devon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRACK SQUAD STARTS TODAY | 5/29/1912 | See Source »

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