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...know the whole blest genus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TUTOR IN LOVE. | 10/15/1880 | See Source »

...like '82 develops one's eye for female beauty amazingly. My heart throbbed as she gazed at me in a pensive manner and sighed again. I resolved to storm the fort at once, and, bracing myself on recollections of conquests in the 'Port, I began: "O most bewitching stranger, know that you have before you a youth who for five summers has sought a maiden like you. A youth who wants to find a girl untarnished by the chromo civilization of the 19th century. She must know nothing of germans, lawn tennis, or the opera; her mind must...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MY CASTLE IN THE AIR. | 10/15/1880 | See Source »

...KNOW not what unheeded grace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRAURIGKEIT. | 10/15/1880 | See Source »

...know that one has this much care...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINES | 6/18/1880 | See Source »

...FRINGE of my napkin, Doo Ling Hichae-chong sends unto thee greeting: Thou mayest well be surprised at the many strange customs of the Americans. Hearken, O magnet of my existence, to the habits I have observed among the learned youth of this great country; for you must know that in this country the youth are very wise, while the old men are they who seek to gain knowledge. I was much pleased and astonished last week when I attended what they call a recitation. The young men, having investigated some branch of learning, enter the room prepared and eager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTERCEPTED LETTERS. | 6/18/1880 | See Source »