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...indeed for the necessity which compelled me, for I had found Alfred a very companionable man, entirely frank and unaffected. Those people who think he is a proud and reserved man - a man of few words - labor under a profound mistake: he can be eloquent upon occasion. I cannot forbear relating the delicate compliment he paid me at parting: he said, and I think he meant it, that he hoped I had enjoyed my visit as much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REMINISCENCES OF TENNYSON. | 3/11/1881 | See Source »

...find an interest in public questions among the students, and to have them consider thoughtfully their duties as citizens of free States. And while I think every man should take a side in politics, he need not, and ought not, to be so much of a partisan as to forbear to denounce and disavow unworthy methods and corrupt men, wherever found...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 10/15/1880 | See Source »

...pray forbear to air your Greek...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAMENT OF THE PHI BETA KAPPA. | 3/5/1880 | See Source »

...Forbear not to stroll once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PARAPHRASE FROM HORACE. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

...poem is so grievously bathetic that we forbear further comment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 6/18/1875 | See Source »

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