Word: notes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...listening to the robin's note...
...think, therefore, that those who lived eighty or a hundred years after him might desire the same information in regard to the time in which he lived, and he resolved, as far as lay in his power, to furnish this information. Accordingly he carried a note-book with him on his travels, and took down observations on the appearance of the towns and country through which he passed, the customs of the people, and any peculiarities which struck him as worth preserving. These notes he afterwards embodied into letters addressed to an English gentleman, and published them in four large...
...referred to by our correspondent was one of several which the Senior class have received this year from their photographer. The tone which he has assumed in these communications has seemed to many persons not the proper one, considering the relation between himself and the persons he addressed. The note we printed was not, perhaps, as offensive as some of its predecessors...
...goody does her work well, is, according to her statement, "O yes. All right." She finds it difficult, therefore, to discover where the trouble lies of which public complaint is made, and desires us to state that if any one who thinks his room is neglected will send a note to the College Matron, 28 Mellen Street, she will see that matters are arranged to his satisfaction...
...with so little notice Omar Khayyam? Simply because, instead of dwelling on the lesser luminaries, he chose the sun, the brightest of them all, Hafiz. It was not his purpose in this simple essay to give us a complete compendium of Persian literature, embracing all the poets of any note, as Mr. Ticknor has done for Spanish literature. Had Mr. Ticknor, in an essay of this limit, omitted an obscure poet, say Queredo, no one, I dare say, would have been shocked...