Word: fors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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We can't take this for Cicero."
I wrote it for that little flirt
COULD the Swan of Mantua visit Cambridge, he would have occasion to remark, in the words of the dog's-meat man, "Times is changed." Although the professors love their disciples, no doubt, as truly as did any pedagogue on the banks of the Po, we are no longer such...
Perhaps, however, this loosening of the bond is not to be deplored, for any respectable old mentor who should nowadays attempt to follow the vagaries of his young Telemachus would have a hard time of it.
Young Bramah Pooter Bantam (his mother was a Partlett, they intermarried with the Woodcocks, and are really among our very nicest people) has gone to join his mamma at Cannes, where that estimable lady is trying the effects of the soft Mediterranean climate upon her too excitable American nerves. But...