Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale - The devil's favorite resort on earth...
...Earth the warrior's soul was leaving...
When I entered, my mind well primed with the stock books on Harvard, I had exalted ideas of accomplishing great deeds on land and water. I first essayed football. One afternoon sufficed to convince me that I was not a second Herbert Leeds, and that frequent collisions with mother earth were not becoming to my style of beauty. To this day my neck has not recovered from the twist it received that afternoon when I rolled on Holmes Field beneath Harrington...
...model? I rather like the French, if they would use a little more drapery. The Dutch have more drapery than the French, though they are deficient in other respects. I cannot bear the sight of those Dutch girls with hats something less than the circumference of the earth, and with market baskets in their hands. No, Rembrandt, we cannot follow you; you loved nature, but it was a vulgar nature. The English are bad also, especially Turner; he is too landscapy. If I had only a head to paint, I might take the Florentines as masters, but I must give...
...leave her, promising, as I press her to my bosom, to return in a week and marry her. Winter will come, but not I; the sweet maid will droop and fade, no longer singing about her daily task; finally she will die and be laid away in the cold earth, while a stranger from the city (that's I) will come and drop a tear over her grave. Say, dearest maid, will you be such an one to me? That sigh betokens regard, I know; speak quick, I pray you, in order that I may get a stop-over...