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...Dawn its thirst with dew is quaffing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SMILES. | 1/9/1880 | See Source »

...Brown"; but the Oxford of to-day is by no means what it was when Thomas Hughes saw it. The purse-proud regime has been reduced, the tandem-driving lords and snobs are unknown. The "Town and Gown" row is a thing of the past, so is that unappeasable thirst for beer by which the youth of that time seemed to have been impelled. The writer states that a student who should anywhere be seen tipsy would lose caste entirely among his fellows; but this is a very hard statement to swallow. If true, things have vastly improved in England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OXFORD. | 11/22/1878 | See Source »

...strong resolve a quenchless thirst to slake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POESY TO THE POET. | 10/11/1878 | See Source »

That cools my burning thirst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PARAPHRASES FROM HORACE. | 1/25/1878 | See Source »

...said that as long as a dog is thirsty, there is no fear of hydrophobia. This is a most comforting reflection for all of us who are daily edified by the thirst (after knowledge) of a spitz dog belonging to one of the professors. The longing glances which this animal casts at the windows of U. 9 from the steps below are truly a rebuke to those - if there be any - who undervalue their advantages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/4/1877 | See Source »

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