Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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TO the novel-reader who has not confined the gratification of his taste to more recent productions, but has dipped into the pastoral and the chivalric romances of the seventeenth century, one of the few interesting features of that dreary region lies in the opportunities for contrasting the behavior of...
THERE is no law, the general impression to the contrary notwithstanding, which forbids candidates for the 'Varsity to appear in the Yard wearing overcoats.
The fact is that I do agree, substantially, both with '52 and with Mr. F. Crowninshield, and I regret that the editors of the Crimson have received a different impression.
WHILE thanking you for your courtesy in publishing my letter of the 9th ult., I wish to correct the impression under which you labor, that I compared the modern hydraulic machines with the old fashioned weights, which never, to my knowledge, were dignified with the epithet "rowing." I cited rowing...
A great many men think that to exercise taste entails expense. This is a false impression. In the first place, cultivation is shown as much by a man's pictures as by any other one thing; and, if we cannot dive into original Jeromes, Meissoniers, Fortunys, etc., we can, at...