Word: though
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...continued), entitled "The Tide of Time." It is apparently a judicious combination of "Paradise Lost" and "Queen Mab"! but after deep consideration we are still unable to decide whether it is a parody, or intended to be serious. "I'll nip the canker in the bud" is a pleasing, though at first sight a startling figure; nipping cankerworms must be an agreeable entertainment on a spring morning in the country. The gentleman who makes this remark in the poem, is - Well, his name is not usually mentioned in polite society; and be makes it apropos...
...Though better with the first...
...though he dreams of love and bets...
...know, of course, that it is not "the thing" ever to show the least excitement, wear spring-bottomed trousers, - or a thousand other things. The more important question is, What is "the thing"? and this we have never been able to solve, though we, like many others, have devoted our life to that end. Some say, "not to study"; others, "to dress well"; the Freshmen think they have found it at the Howard: but the general opinion seems now to indicate light ulsters...
...Perhaps you are right, after all," said he; "I agree with what you say, in theory at least, though I doubt if it will hold in practice. But then I may be taking my own circumstances and ideas on the subject as belonging to us all. I went to Harvard with the intention of doing fairly well, of getting what knowledge and experience I could conveniently in three or four years, and of finishing off my school education in a leisurely, gentlemanly way. I confess that my aim was not a high one, and therefore there is perhaps little wonder...