Word: locked
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...nature. See, the lock of hair...
ABOUT ninety men were present at Mr. Perry's lecture last Tuesday. The works of Pope which were taken up were the "Rape of the Lock," the "Satires and Epistles," and the "Translation of Homer." Next Tuesday Mr. Perry will speak of the "Dunciad," and then go on to Addison...
...from all risk of loss, and costly bindings unfit for careless use. The wisdom of forbidding the circulation of such books is evident. But the source of complaint lies not in these, but in certain books of questionable character which the Library council prudishly, it is said, keep under lock and key, thus depriving us of man's peculiar distinction, - the knowledge of good and evil. Some books may have been put under restriction rather hastily. Walt Whitman was in disgrace, though, to our minds, reading his verses, if a crime, is in itself sufficient penance; and Swinburne was forbidden...
...lease of the club boat-house of the Corporation, and that this lease will not expire until a year from next October. If he should sell the boats he would still have the rent to pay on an estate that was bringing him in no income. Mr. Blakie may lock the doors of the boat-house next October, and refuse to admit any one until a sufficient number of paying members is obtained, and this would be a wise course for him to take. In spite of these facts we still think that "the status of the 'house-clubs...
...Your visit," said my chum, "necessitates the placing of a new lock on our door. I think it only fair that you should pay half. And while you are here, perhaps you would like to subscribe to the Matworthy boat-club." You see my chum's a treasurer, and has an eye to number...