Word: parchments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...without a poney. I've had an easy time in college, and have enjoyed well the 'Otium cum dignitate' - the learned leisure of a scholar's life - always despising digging, you know, and what with ticking, screwing and deading, am candidate for a piece of parchment tomorrow, certifying that I am admitted to be by all A. B., which being interpreted is A Booby, a passport all the world over...
Andrew Lang has written a judicious and delicately worded criticism upon Poe's poetry for the "Parchment Library." It is in general somewhat after the Matthew Arnold school of criticism, which is on the whole high commendation...
...Your parchment will I burn, - 'tis forfeit...
...parchment signed...