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Smiling, relaxed, he rambled on, hopelessly out of touch with any acceptable reality: "...As T.S. Eliot once told me,...hmn, ha ha,...and thus, you know, a novus homo, ho ho, ...and therefore, Robert Browning stands as...hee hee, `...the boy stood on the burning deck,' ...Michael Blumenthal 'hath perced...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Professing Some Hatred | 3/11/1986 | See Source »

The antiseptic method requires that a doctor pierce the ears in his office. Mothers approve of this school more than the others. There are several doctors in the Square who pierce ears, and they charge between ten and fiteen dollars. The pain is usually slight, but since doctors are not...

Author: By Ellen Lake, | Title: The Great Radcliffe Ear Debauch | 3/18/1964 | See Source »

The droghts of March hath perced to the roote--Chaucer;

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grass | 10/5/1963 | See Source »

Male & Female. The completed work (which the BBC has been broadcasting, in parts, as Coghill finished them, for six years) is the best "translation" of Chaucer to be had. It owes much of its bubbling fluency to Coghill's boldness in sacrificing words and word orders to rhythm and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lollipop Chaucer | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

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