Word: rare
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more than a score of human beings. Yet she possessed the germ of those pure inborn gifts which cultivation can mock, but never equal. She could analyze the beauty of forest scenery; but she criticised it intuitively, not by reason. She did not know that this was a rare gift. She was not conscious of her powers, and did not know but that every woman was stirred to deep emotion by the quiet beauty of a lake or the wild grandeur of a windy mountain. Her life was given to the loveliness of the silent forest and the misty waterfall...
...interested. The Miscellany's exchange notes are what exchange notes should be, both brilliant and just. The Yale Lit., too, excels in its "Portfolio." It is a very gentlemanly paper, with an easy air that is rather humorous than witty. Its dress is excellent. The Nassau Lit. has the rare power of producing literary articles of real merit upon interesting subjects. The editorials are not dignified enough for so dignified a paper. There is an element in them which we do not like in an editorial, but which we find appropriate and amusing in the "College Gossip." The Hamilton...
...secret of its maiden beauty rare...