Southern Collegian, Volume 13Literary Societies of Washington College, 1880 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 24
Page 9
... passed just across the mouth of the vessel whence the mighty stream is issuing . This , they say , fitly de- signates the time of the Deluge , which the best chronologists put at 2300 years before Christ , or 630 years before the build ...
... passed just across the mouth of the vessel whence the mighty stream is issuing . This , they say , fitly de- signates the time of the Deluge , which the best chronologists put at 2300 years before Christ , or 630 years before the build ...
Page 34
... Passed swiftly by with Maud . Q. T. B. has almost recovered from the effects of attending that camp - meeting ( ? ) , but he still has a slight fever which threatens to be permanent . Freshmen are at their old tricks . Go ahead , boys ...
... Passed swiftly by with Maud . Q. T. B. has almost recovered from the effects of attending that camp - meeting ( ? ) , but he still has a slight fever which threatens to be permanent . Freshmen are at their old tricks . Go ahead , boys ...
Page 43
... passed a fine examination before the Supreme Court in S. C. , and is now practising law with his father in Yorkville . He still finds time upon occasions to be " a raging , raving , tearing calico man . " T. S. Purdie is practising law ...
... passed a fine examination before the Supreme Court in S. C. , and is now practising law with his father in Yorkville . He still finds time upon occasions to be " a raging , raving , tearing calico man . " T. S. Purdie is practising law ...
Page 53
... passing from one part to another . Being unable to see how this is able to manifest any vital power , we fear a something all the more terrible from being undefined , since few of us can feel with Hamlet in the first part of his remark ...
... passing from one part to another . Being unable to see how this is able to manifest any vital power , we fear a something all the more terrible from being undefined , since few of us can feel with Hamlet in the first part of his remark ...
Page 59
... passing , a casual glance at the character of Ophelia . This is one of Shakspere's characteristic creations . Never has our great dramatist showed his genius more than in his female characters . In them he rises above the mediocrity of ...
... passing , a casual glance at the character of Ophelia . This is one of Shakspere's characteristic creations . Never has our great dramatist showed his genius more than in his female characters . In them he rises above the mediocrity of ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Acta admiration Alma Mater Alumni ancholy Aristotle asso Bayard Taylor beauty boys BROWNFIELD Business Manager calico Campus cause character College Commencement Cornell Review course Cupel Cynthiana endowment entertainment essays evolutionist eyes Faculty feel friends genius gentleman give Graham Lee Hamlet hand heard heart honor hope human interest Jews lady Lee University LEGIAN Lexington Literary Societies live look Lynchburg man-the matter Medal meeting mind Miss moral nature never Newellton night perfect pleasure poem poet poetry practicing law President Prof Professor reason religion remarks rendered Richmond seems smile song soul SOUTHERN COLLEGIAN spirit spurious quotation success suppose sweet Tacitus Tensas Parish Texas thee thing thou thought tion true University of Virginia verse W. K. CARLISLE Washington and Lee wish wonder words writing Ye editor York young youth
Popular passages
Page 60 - What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
Page 60 - I have of late (but wherefore I know not) lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, — why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 22 - According to the tradition of his companions, Mahomet was distinguished by the beauty of his person, an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. Before he spoke, the orator engaged on his side the affections of a public or private audience. They applauded his commanding presence, his majestic aspect, his piercing eye, his gracious smile, his flowing beard, his countenance that painted every sensation of the soul, and his gestures that enforced each expression...
Page 264 - Past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart ! and cease repining ; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining ; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
Page 57 - Remember thee ! Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there ; And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain...
Page 54 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets...
Page 270 - As the husband is, the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.
Page 102 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings...
Page 271 - ... that comes to him, at eventide, from far-distant, undiscovered islands, over dim oceans, illimitable and unexplored. He owns it in all noble thoughts— in all unworldly motives — in all holy impulses — in all chivalrous, generous, and self-sacrificing deeds. He feels it in the beauty of woman — in the grace of her step — in the...
Page 153 - Gie me ae spark o' nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire; Then tho' I drudge thro' dub an' mire At pleugh or cart, My muse, tho' hamely in attire, May touch the heart.