Word: waking
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Speak softly, Joy, lest Sorrow wake...
...takes up in some other way. History tells us that Cyrus, when a young man, was awakened every morning by sweet strains of music, in order that he might begin the day in harmony with everything. Perhaps the Faculty think that it answers the purpose equally well to wake us up with a harsh bell, and give us the music half an hour afterwards; but the delay is fatal. By the time the music comes we are not in a fitting frame of mind to appreciate...
...soft to wake a sleeping child...
...since Orpheus was torn to pieces by those Thracian ladies, long ago. You shall hear him say at dinner that he went to the punch just to look on. On the same evening he will tell the boys that he was full of Bacchus; and then he will wake the midnight echoes of the quiet old town, to show them "how we men do it at the University." But don't imagine that even his happiness is complete. He is worrying to-day about the best way of breaking to his mother the fact that he has learned to smoke...
...prove my identity," said he anxiously, and he pulled out his pocket-book. "Here's my card. No, it is n't, either. But - I don't want to wake my brother, you see, - I have my name on my watch, and - yes," triumphantly, "I have my Bursar's certificate." And he put it into my hand...