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Word: eye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...pronounced to be in bad taste. The curtains, the paper, the furniture, and the carpet are in keeping with each other; and barring that horrible mantel-piece, which I did my best to conceal with a heavy cloth, there is nothing in it that does not please the eye. So far I have done my best for you. There are two things which I have left to your own taste, - books and pictures. You will of course need to buy a certain number of text-books, and if you take my advice, you will also pick up from time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 11/3/1876 | See Source »

...time was not far distant when it might be done away with entirely, and Juniors and Sophomores, as well as Seniors, would no longer be obliged to attend lectures or recitations by threats of punishment for their absence. We would all be raised, that is, from the condition of eye-servants to the state of men who feel responsibility, and act accordingly. Until this is done we can never seriously claim that Harvard is anything more than a high school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/20/1876 | See Source »

THOU old, sad man, whose hollow sunken eye...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON A PAINTING OF S. JEROME. | 5/5/1876 | See Source »

...lovely vision passed before my eye...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON READING CERTAIN POEMS OF KEATS. | 4/7/1876 | See Source »

Still I cannot but feel that a large part of the lack of interest is caused by the unfortunate choice of subjects. Undoubtedly, to the fledgling's eye, there is something very picturesque and poetic in a fading daisy, but as long as your readers refuse to see it, you had better keep your lucubration in your portfolio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR BARDS. | 3/10/1876 | See Source »

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