Word: virginals
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...YOUTH beginning Latin astonished his schoolmistress by translating Virgin: Vir, a man; gin, a trap; virgin, a mantrap...
...subjects in a fortnight or less at the University Bookstore. The subjects of the heliotypes have been carefully selected by Mr. Osgood, and, though most of them are modern (Toschi's engravings after Correggio, and others after Titian and Raphael), there will be found Durer's "Life of the Virgin" and probably the whole of Blake...
Among the woodcuts we have the Seven Angels of the Apocalypse, which is a most surprising and interesting print, and rewards attention; below it there is the lower half of the "Rest in Egypt," The Virgin in this picture is really beautiful, and the sporting and toiling angels are worthy of the cheerful Benozzo Gozzoli...
...proceedings were very horrible indeed. We are innocent enough to believe this; can the Owl instruct our innocence? Some one else declares that "the exercise of common-sense but for a minute" reduces the difference between Romanists and Protestants to a mere doubt respecting the profitableness of invoking the Virgin. The writer would surely have said otherwise had he exercised his own common-sense a minute longer. If not, his instructors could have corrected him. These expressions, in a magazine containing much commendable matter, are all that challenge our critical attention. May the Owl accept it kindly...
Years have rolled by, and Skiapous still sighs for his virgin benefactress. But why should young hearts, full of gladness and rejoicing, be oppressed by the forebodings that crowd my fevered brain? Will it not be enough, when all is over, for me to tell you "Skiapous is no more...