Word: spain
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...breathes there for me, in the borders of Spain...
...built my castles in Spain...
...boys. Either of my sisters? Well, perhaps. Mrs. Earl? Not if I knew it. I'm afraid she would be dangerous with a lone man. Miss Earl? If - But would her mother let her? But I kept my courage up, and indulged in castles in Spain of a mild type...
...class can furnish so many lives at so late a day as ours. Our class graduated sixty years ago, and more than one third are still living. What changes we have seen! Our country has extended from shore to shore. Spain and Portugal have national forms of government, Italy regenerated, Germany, after an eclipse of two centuries, coming out of the cloud, and now, as I hope, the Christian armies are moving to the Bosphorus to restore, as I trust, the cross to the citadel of Sophia. I see a magnificent highway on which humanity is marching to her high...
...Hamilton Literary Monthly is remarkable for the shortness of its articles. Although in a college paper long articles are insufferable, the case of a magazine is different; and such a subject as "The Moors in Spain," or "Womanhood in Shakespeare and Milton," or again, "The Unity of the Bible," if broached at all, should be treated at length. The Hamilton editors probably think that "brevity is the soul of wit"; in reading their last issue we must confess that we " start, for soul is wanting there...