Word: fiction
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...poetry of the last number of the Yale Record is unusually good. "Vacation" might have been written by Edgar Fawcett, and the rhythm of "Madelina" is worthy of Poe, if it is not imitated from him. We clip the following, which is not poetry, but fiction...
SCENE, a game of clumps. "Is it in a work of fiction?" "Yes." "Written at the beginning of the Christian era?" "Yes." ABSENT-MINDED MAN (eagerly). "Is it in the Bible?" (Fact...
...course, in studying books of our own or even of the Library, it does little harm, and sometimes much good, to call attention to the important passages by a pencil-mark. But in works of fiction many dash their pencils recklessly along a paragraph that strikes their fancy at the moment. This is almost always done when alone in a sort of friendly social feeling toward the next reader, and because there is no one present to share the reader's delight! Did you ever see a man mark a book? No, because if any one is present, the passage...
...fiction, the finest passages are seldom selected by the ordinary vandal; here, at least, he marks the best known parts, avoiding love passages lest he may seem sentimental...
...College, - a red-faced man gazing thoughtfully into the distance while an open volume of Plato rests on his knee (the founder made his money by selling mules to the government, and, it was currently reported, could not read, so the Plato, I fear, was an artistic fiction) - hung on the fourth side, and about it were three or four chromos and a plaster bust of Clay...