Word: reader
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...youth assumed the toga virilis, or man's apparel," says the writer, "was when they first attended the feasts of Bacchus. Do the youth of modern days never attend the feasts of Bacchus before they have assumed the Toga Virilis?" An apothegm on "Hasty Writers" (transformed by some malicious reader before me to "Hasty-Pudding Writers!") is quoted here: "Little writers compose books apace; for naturalists observe that the less the insect is the oftener it lays, and the faster it propagates; but then their brood is very short-lived...
...Sanskrit Reader," by Professor Lanman, is in press...
...attention so dear to her sex. Instead of making the most of her gifts and making her defects as unnoticeable as possible, she subordinated the former to an exaggeration of the latter. Her husband had "struck oil" in Pennsylvania, and had then subsided into a submissive check-signer and reader of the daily papers, a mythical kind of power-behind-the-throne known as "Mrs. De Sorosis' husband...
...suddenness that was a shock to many, as indeed all death must be. "Mr. Longfellow's connection with Harvard is part of his fame and that of the college," Mr. Howells says in his sketch of Longfellow, and any account of his life "can but very briefly remind the reader of facts in the life of a poet only less known than Shakespere." It is not for us to speak of his fame and his greatness. The rounded perfection and beauty of such a life is felt by all; and it must be always, as a son of Harvard...
...Park an admirable company of artists will present Cazauran's adaptation of the celebrated French society drama, entitled "Felicia, or Woman's Love." Some serious objection has been found to the play because of the rather doubtful character of the plot, which is probably familiar to the reader. Miss Rose Eytinge, who assumes the title role, is an actress of much merit, and in this particular part, her original creation, she is seen to the best advantage...