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Ocean ! in thy depths I'll hide me, in oblivion find delight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TENDER MADRIGALS BY COLLEGE POETS. | 5/7/1884 | See Source »

...with the language. Four years have been invested, so to speak, in Greek. From merely a profit and loss point of view, is it better for one to go on a year or two more reading masterpieces of the literature, or to let what he has acquired go to oblivion ? Let freshmen seriously look at this view of the case before deciding to drop the classics after the first year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMUNICATIONS. | 12/6/1883 | See Source »

...Dublin, Ireland. The details in this volume are often very curious. One married lady from Russia, with amiable reverence for truth, gives her maiden name in full. Something of the same spirit possessed the party of eight young ladies and gentlemen, who record that they were "locked in." The oblivion of youth heeded not the page's cry, "Library closed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD LIBRARY. | 2/15/1883 | See Source »

...China sink into oblivion if you didn't meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 10/9/1882 | See Source »

...aesthete? muscle or art? bread and butter or daisies? Are we to dine upon sun-flowers cooked with cat-tails, and be invited to sup upon golden rod and dandelions, with a lily or two to complete the inspiration? Are English beef and ale to be consigned to oblivion? Must everybody become wizen and waxen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/24/1882 | See Source »

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