Word: offing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Their opinions are received by attentive minds and have their influence upon us, not because they come from gray hairs, but because we recognize them as the results of long meditation upon subjects of actual and faithful investigation. From the contrast between the two kinds of instruction we have received...
A HAZY, dreamy afternoon of golden Autumn-tide,
A fringe of drooping foliage in ripples seemed to sink;
The waving branches gently kissed the surface of the stream,
His eye was keen, his brow was high, he was of lofty mien.