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Dates: during 1880-1889
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That on that vasty, briny, treacherous drink...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CLASS POEM. | 5/19/1881 | See Source »

...thirst am I, and from the fountain would drink...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CHAPERON. | 3/25/1881 | See Source »

...called Sof om oar array himself in purple and fine linen, and, with a face shining as the sun, save where it is marred by a hurried shave, he hasteneth to the house of music and the dance, and sayeth, "Go to; now will I enjoy myself, eat, drink, and be a masher;" and lo, as he entereth the chamber of the dance, he perceiveth even afar off a maiden of the tribes that dwell beyond the Hudson, - yea, even on the shores of the great seas have they set up their tabernacles, - and lo, the maiden is fair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GO AND DO THOU NOT LIKEWISE. | 1/14/1881 | See Source »

...drink, and be merry, my future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPECTRE DEGREE. | 12/10/1880 | See Source »

...entire sympathy of the Prohibition party or no; but we do know that the abusive language which a certain henchman of Dr. Miner's used in reference to the College preacher is thoroughly disgraceful and contemptible. Dr. Miner himself also alleged that Dr. Peabody had advised young men to drink moderately rather than not drink at all. This the latter pronounces "an absolute and an unqualified falsehood. The only possible ground or pretence for it is that in a book of mine, in treating collectively of all forms of luxury, indulgence, recreation, and amusement, I say of them collectively that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/21/1880 | See Source »

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