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...show their proficiency when occasion offers. A very large number of them, both residents and visitors, were in New York during the past vacation, and things were correspondingly lively. Released from dull routine of ordinary duties, and with all the resources of the metropolis at their disposal, they revel in that highest of all luxuries, the time and ability to follow the dictates of their own sweet wills...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/9/1874 | See Source »

What is Shakespeare - the copyist of the minutest details of human experience - to me when I can revel in the imaginary haps and mishaps of gods and demi-gods? What the conciseness of Pope, the grandeur of Milton, the exquisite finish of Tennyson, the beauties and excellences of all modern genius, when I can find the semblance of these qualities in a language of two thousand years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PLEA FOR THE CLASSICS. | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

...revel was high, the revel was long...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TALE OF FARGEAU. | 4/18/1873 | See Source »

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