Word: woman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...exaltingly undergoing his annual examinations. My son, despite the preconcealed opinion of transducing people, is a literary, ecstatic sort of young man and is always doing concentric things, but now, "miseracordia dictu," he writes to me that he has bought the statute of the most divine woman that ever walked this territorial demisphere, Venus di Medici (I think that's the creature's name, anyhow, it's a heathenish barbacued name), and that he has dropped head over feet in love, with her. Now I have no possible subjection to his being in love, when his heart don't palliate...
Elizabeth Foster was born in Charlestown in 1665. In 1692, she became the second wife of Isaac Goose. Goose, at that time, possessed ten children. His second wife bore him six, and, in view of this accumulated progeny, it has been supposed that "The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe" grew out of its author's experience. Such dim hints form our chief knowledge of the life of Mother Goose, as, indeed, often happens in the case of writers who are absorbed in their work...
There is a romantic and highly probable tale in the Columbia Spectator about a bicyclist who, meeting a young woman running away from home to be married, put her on the steps of his machine, and raced with her father and a fast horse for six miles, and beat. The Acta, usually the best of our exchanges, has nothing of any interest this week, except another romantic and extremely slangy story, "A Land Cruise," which has run through several numbers, and promises to go on indefinitely...
...thinking partly of my ill-luck with the bass, - a fish which is, as every sportsman knows, as "uncertain, coy, and hard to please" as woman is, or is said to be, - and partly of the college whose towers rose above the trees before me. I was casting a pretty mystery about its sweet girl graduates, and wondering whether their ways of life and methods of thought were like ours, and whether - still more important - they were good-looking...
...Annex nymphs were soon busy among themselves, bartering for gains. Those who were beautiful looked for knowledge, as usual, while the ugly ones strove for features. What I particularly noticed was, that those in a state of mediocrity also strove for knowledge, for every woman in that state thinks she is beautiful...