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...enable us to form a just enough estimate of an author's general power of mind, of a poet's constructive ability, but the very best of them cannot render for us that which is the characteristic of all great and individual writing, namely, Style, any more than a plaster cast can reproduce a marble statue. Shakespeare, you recollect, with that inevitable tact in the choice of epithets which gives to every careless phrase of his an esoteric as well as exoteric meaning, makes Quince exclaim, when he sees Bottom with the ass's head on his shoulders,- "Bless thee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fragments from the Lectures of Professor Lowell. | 3/30/1894 | See Source »

SIGNET.- I have in my possession several medallions (both bronze and plaster) of the Signet, which I shall be glad to sell. The prices are,- bronze, $2.50; plaster, 60 cents. Any past or present member of the Signet may buy one. Will the '94 men who ordered medallions kindly come at once and get them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notice. | 3/12/1894 | See Source »

...SALTONSTALL.SIGNET.- I have in my possession several medallions (both bronze and plaster) of the Signet, which I shall be glad to sell. The prices are,- bronze, $2.50; plaster, 60 cents. Any past or present member of the Signet may buy one. Will the '94 men who ordered medallions kindly come at once and get them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notice. | 3/3/1894 | See Source »

SIGNET.- I have in my possession several medallions (both bronze and plaster) of the Signet, which I shall be glad to sell. The prices are,- bronze, $2.50; plaster, 60 cents. Any past or present member of the Signet may buy one. Will the '94 men who ordered medallions kindly come at once and get them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notice. | 3/2/1894 | See Source »

SIGNET.- I have in my possession several medallions (both bronze and plaster) of the Signet, which I shall be glad to sell. The prices are,-bronze, $2.50; plaster, 60 cents. Any past or present member of the Signet may buy one. Will the '94 men who ordered medallions kindly come at once and get them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notice. | 2/27/1894 | See Source »

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