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Word: virgin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...when Fredricus had taken away from himself the desire for eating and drinking, he saw next him a lovely maiden eating alone, and, Venus prompting him, he thus addresses her: "O Virgin, by what name shall I call thee? O thou a goddess surely! Art thou a sister of Phoebus, or one of the race of nymphs? O, be propitious, and whoever thou art, - brace up on your supper and take a stroll on deck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FREDRICUS VAN RASSELAS LIVINGSTON. | 4/18/1879 | See Source »

...small copy of Carpatio's celebrated Saint Ursula, showing the head and bust of the reclining saint, into which Mr. Moore has put all the perfections and imperfections of the original; another represents the group of Apostles that occupies the lower part of Titian's "Annunciation of the Virgin"; and the third is taken from Tintoretto...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MR. MOORE'S STUDIES FROM ITALIAN PAINTINGS. | 12/20/1877 | See Source »

HALF-WAY down the interior of one of our old brick halls stands a dingy wooden table with numerous square-cornered cells bearing various sorts of journals and a dilapidated heap of Punch in the midst. The Hall is Massachusetts; the interior is the reading-room; and a virgin octavo, lying on the table, is familiar to but few undergraduates, under the title of the New-Englander. On my occasional visits to the hall aforesaid, I seldom fail to turn down the leaves of the New-Englander, for the sake of passing through the sleepy obscurity which marks the pages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSCULAR DOUBTS. | 5/5/1876 | See Source »

Turned in despair from the virgin dead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOPPARD. | 6/4/1875 | See Source »

WHEN Love hath pierced the virgin's heart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: After Dryden: | 4/9/1875 | See Source »

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