Word: misses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Miss Austen. Any novel...
...classics, but we who have passed the slough of despond require none the less a recognition of our power to read the classics. It is very pleasant and profitable for us that the beauties of Chaucer should be held up for our admiration. But this is not enough. We miss the accustomed classical readings which have been given us in past years, and lift up our voices in remonstrance. We cannot feel satisfied to allow one of the most beneficial and practical applications of our classical knowledge to pass into disuse. No method is equal to that of the classical...
Striving to do better, oft we mar what's well. If the president succeeds in composing the board of younger counselors, I trust he may, in the words of the preacher, "miss not the discourse of the elders...
BOSTON THEATRE.- Miss Margaret Mather, as " The Hunchback." Performance...
...Boston must miss Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes from the public dinner. with his occasional poem that was ever the bonne bouche of the feast, it is to have in Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes an after-dinner orator who, to estimate his powers in this genre from his performance at the last Harvard commencement dinner, and again at the dinner of the bar last night, is as much above the common run of dinner speakers as his father is above the common race of banquet posts. Indeed, those two speeches of the younger Holmes are nothing short of poems in prose...