Word: lamp
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...most glowing descriptions of the Arabian Nights pale before it. Even the Prince of the Black Isles, who had so many charming young ladies devoted to him, never enjoyed the luxury of hanging up his clothes on a silver-plated hook, nor are we told that Aladdin's famous lamp was nickel-plated. The movements of genius are at all times interesting, but when those movements are made on six wheels of the most approved model, with twelve elliptic and four spiral springs and a Westinghouse air-brake, they are enough to captivate the imagination of the coldest...
...architect of Sever Hall might well get some hints for fitting up the professors' retiring-rooms from the arrangements of this car. A silver-plated hook for the professor to hang his hat on would be the first requisite. A nickel-plated lamp would also be very convenient at the four-to-five recitations in winter. Some who now find it hard to get to a nine-o'clock recitation might be accommodated with a secretary that would change into a bed, and this would assure their being on the spot in time the next morning. A silver-plated bath...
...blessing on you, my son," quoth he. "See here, - most interesting. Decameron, Heptameron, Balzac, Brantome, Paul de Kock, Zola, - all, except the Bible; it is enough to know the light, - you want not the lamp...
That coldly waves its wondrous lamp aloft...
...long as Truth shall hold her lamp on high...