Word: listened
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...cannot stop, I must speak; listen and despise...
...listen to this tale...
...amusing way of doing nothing to sit in one's room half dozing, and listen to the steps that come along the entry on their way to the rooms overhead. It is quite an instructive occupation too, presenting, as it does, a wide field for the cultivation of the listening faculty. In the course of a dozen or two such sittings, one gets to know the peculiarities of each individual step, and recognizes the passer-by as clearly as though the partition were transparent. When I hear various preliminary kicks at, and slams of, the neighboring doors, a shuffling step...
...advantage of a book translation, plus the interest which you feel from being in almost personal contact with the translator. May those blessed evenings in which we communed, as it were, with the spirit of AEschylus, Homer, and Aristophanes, come again! The dullest soul that ever breathed could not listen to that spirited rendering of Virgil without his soul kindling into enthusiasm and admiration...
...every song receiving an encore. It is a pity that the club should not have encores prepared, as they have been obliged to repeat the same song when recalled by the audience. The Harvard Glee Club is always encored on principle, but its hearers do not always care to listen to the same thing twice...