Word: scene
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Scene closes...
...SCENE, a room in H-lw-rthy. - TIME, the present...
...patent, back-action poem, with a button-hole attachment. It is entitled " All on a Summer's Day"; but the caption is delusive, for we find no rhythmic suggestion of the boom-jing-jing. It begins with forty lines of descriptive verse, when suddenly the lovers appear on the scene, and the author abruptly turns from Wordsworth to Dante-Gabriel Rossetti. Having fitted up his paradise, he introduces Eve; and we should infer from the following lines that lilacs, and not fig-leaves, were at present the correct thing...
...moment, during the summer, that he is a member of Harvard University, and that he must deport him self with becoming dignity; nor would I hint to the Sophomore that a great many of his acquaintances have heard college songs and stories before his appearance on the scene: but I would suggest that during the summer vacation we should take in, as well as give out, a knowledge of men and things...
...SCENE, German Class. PROFESSOR (to a '78 Miss). What does enthaupten mean? '78 Miss. It means to behead a person. PROFESSOR. Then what does behaupten mean? '78 Miss. I should think that meant to put a head on him. - Cornell...