Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...satisfied with the liberal amount of advertisements outside of the text, he begins with the title-page and strings them all along through the book. The engraving of one of the Fall-River steamers which is introduced in the middle of the text might just as well be a likeness of George Washington, so far as its connection with a handbook of Boston goes. The accounts of the various hotels and restaurants read almost exactly like advertisements. Thus, in the account of the Parker House appear those familiar lines, "The clarets, etc. are Mr. Parker's direct importation, the result...
...Like a college without proctors...
...Like certif'cates without doctors...
Never read anything so desolate, and yet so decently resigned. Receipt:- first find a good double rhyme, - like "savour," "flavour," or "candle," "handle." The first line does not rhyme, and the second can easily be worked in afterwards. Then take a comparison to one of the months, as he has to June, such as "March without mud" or "February without Semis," - or anything that is strange and unnatural...
...March without mud's what my life's like...