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Like the honeyed speech of Nestor, as the olden poet tells; 'Tis the mem'ry of its freedom in the halcyon days of yore Wafted from the fallen Venice, Hadria's mighty queen no more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE POETRY OF HARVARD UNDERGRADUATES. | 4/22/1881 | See Source »

...proverb odd and olden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEFORE THE FIRE. | 11/12/1880 | See Source »

...olden time and otherwhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CROQUIS. | 5/21/1880 | See Source »

Several motions were made and lost. At last a little gentleman arose, and, moving excitedly about in his seat, broke out: "I zink ze money had better not be touched, presently; maintenant, ze inwards of Olden need decoration, which zing I move...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MEETING OF THE F - Y. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

...razing of Fort Hill; the loss of the famous Brattle Street Church, with its British cannon-ball buried in its face; of the Paddock elms; of that perfect monument of Colonial architecture, the Hancock House, have changed Boston much from the honest provincial town it was in "Ye Olden Tyme"; but Faneuil Hall, the Old South, the Old North, St. Paul's, Brimstone Corner, King's Chapel, and the Old State House still remain; while across the water, says G. W. Curtis in his "Eulogy on Sumner," "Lo! memorial of a battle lost and a cause won, the tall, gray...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOW SHALL I SPEND MY SUMMER VACATION? | 6/16/1876 | See Source »

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