Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...suddenly, in the midst of the gloom, there came a sound that startled the weary scribes, and they saw among them a familiar figure...
...large supply of new and standard books is now in sale. The works of Shakespeare, Fennyson, Longfellow, Scott, Hawthorne, Emerson, George Eliot, Ruskin, Parkman; MacMaster's History of the United States, Carlyle's Correspondence, Newcomb's Political Economy, Ward's English Poet's, Arnold's Poems, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, etc., are on sale. Members will find it to their advantage to examine these books, which are offered at low prices...
...large supply of new and standard books is now on sale. The works of Shakespeare, Tennyson, Longfellow, Scott, Hawthorne, Emerson, George Eliot, Ruskin, Parkman; MacMaster's History of the United States, Carlyle's Correspondence, Newcomb's Political Economy, Ward's English Poet's, Arnold's Poems, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, etc., are on sale. Members will find it to their advantage to examine these books, which are offered at low prices...
...just as much practice relatively as criticism. This class of work binds one more or less to a set method of thought, and a narrow way of looking at things. You cannot gather figs from thistles, nor acquire a ready style and ample vocabulary from constant application of the familiar, "What does the author attempt? Is the attempt worth while? Is the attempt successful?" These three phrases stand like ghouls at the mental feast of every wretched sophomore, and, with cruel knives carve his repast into morsels to suit themselves...
...large supply of new and standard books is now on sale. The works of Shakespeare, Tennyson, Longfellow, Scott, Hawthorne, Emerson, George Eliot, Ruskin, Parkman; MacMaster's History of the United States, Carlyle's Correspondence, Newcomb's Political Economy, Ward's English Poet's, Arnold's Poems, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, etc., are on sale. Members will find it to their advantage to examine the books, which are offered at low prices...