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I sat myself down on the sofa again, and tried to think. I might as well have tried to fly. My brain was spinning about like a wheel, and I could distinguish nothing clearly. There was the dream, the vision, the actuality, whatever it was, of the night before; here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A BIRD OF THE AIR. | 5/6/1881 | See Source »

Mr. Muzzey may have heard the above dark hint from the same authority who furnished him with the information that "the walls of old Massachusetts, with the portraits of so many worthies as look down on the spectacle, contain enclosed for all time the gilded trophies of victory by the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 5/6/1881 | See Source »

The result of this is that our German courses present a sort of climax upside down. In other departments, as it is well known, the student is supposed - in theory at least - to take the course marked (1) before he takes the course marked (2), &c. Not so in German...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN GERMAN. | 5/6/1881 | See Source »

Like silky down torn from a wild swan's breast,

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE POETRY OF HARVARD UNDERGRADUATES. | 4/22/1881 | See Source »

Down to a ferny flat. On either side

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE POETRY OF HARVARD UNDERGRADUATES. | 4/22/1881 | See Source »