The Harvard Advocate, Volumes 40-41

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Harvard Advocate, 1885
 

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Page 89 - Then they rode back, but not, Not the six hundred. Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon behind them...
Page 27 - After some time, to abuse Othello's ear, That he is too familiar with his wife :— He hath a person, and a smooth dispose, To be suspected ; fram'd to make women false. The Moor is of a free and open nature, That thinks men honest, that but seem to be so ; And will as tenderly be led by the nose, As asses are.
Page 76 - Go, LOVELY rose ! Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died.
Page 92 - Eat, drink, and die, for we are souls bereaved : Of all the creatures under heaven's wide cope We are most hopeless, who had once most hope, And most beliefless, that had most believed.
Page 63 - The first of ^jese lectures introduced and interested the Boston public in Kindergarten education. The seven others are those which, for nine or ten successive years, Miss Peabody addressed to the training classes for Kindergartners, in Boston and other cities. They unfold the idea which, though...
Page 104 - The tallest flower that skyward rears its head Grows from the common ground, and there must shed Its delicate petals. Cruel fate, too surely That they should find so base a bridal bed, Who lived in virgin pride, so sweet and purely. She had a brother, and a tender father, And she was loved, but not as others are From whom we ask return of love, — but rather As one might love a dream ; a phantom fair Of something exquisitely strange and rare, Which all were glad to look on, men and maids, Yet no...
Page 92 - Eat, drink, and play, and think that this is bliss : There is no heaven but this ; There is no hell, Save earth, which serves the purpose doubly well...
Page 63 - The lectures begin with the natural exemplification of this idea in the nursery, followed by two lectures on how the nursery opens up into the Kindergarten through the proper use of language and conversation with children, finally developing into equipoise the child's relations to his fellows, to nature, and to God. Miss Peabody draws many illustrations from her own psychological observations of child-life.
Page 154 - ... Would not, could not, would not, could not, would not join the dance. Would not, could not, would not, could not, could not join the dance. " What matters it how far we go ? " his scaly friend replied, " There is another shore, you know, upon the other side. The further off from England the nearer is to France; Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance. Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?
Page 27 - Whip me such honest knaves : Others there are, Who, trimm'd in forms and visages of duty, Keep yet their hearts attending on themselves...

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