This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... Commem. Then Kitty, let "yes" be the answer. We 'll dance at the 'Varsity Ball, And the morning shall find you a dancer In Christ Church or Trinity hall. lo6 A LETTER. And perhaps, when the elders are yawning, And rafters grow pale overhead With the day, there shall come with its dawning Some thought of that ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... Commem. Then Kitty, let "yes" be the answer. We 'll dance at the 'Varsity Ball, And the morning shall find you a dancer In Christ Church or Trinity hall. lo6 A LETTER. And perhaps, when the elders are yawning, And rafters grow pale overhead With the day, there shall come with its dawning Some thought of that sentence unsaid. Be it this, be it that--" I forget," or " Was joking "--whatever the feminine fib, you'll have made me your debtor And come, --you will come? to Commem. Q. A REPLY Froni Miss Kitty Tremayne to Mr. Algernon Dexter, declining his invitation to the Encaenia of June 1888, on the ground that she proposes to attend the University Extension Summer Meeting in the Long Vacation of the same year. Dear Algy, How could you suppose that I care for your silly Commem. Every Home Reading Circle well knows that Such gaieties are not for them. I am bent upon probing life's mystery, And I write seven essays a week, I read pure mathematics and history, And high metaphysics and Greek. I care not for balls and flirtations, I am dull 'mid frivolity's throng, But I pine for quadratic equations In the studious repose of the Long. I really don't know what you 'll say to The remarkable progress I 've made: Like you I can prattle of Plato, Like you I can pilfer from Praed. io8 A REPLY. I have come to believe in the mission Of woman to civilise man; To teach him to know his position, And to estimate hers--if he can. Perhaps you would rather I 'd greet you With snatches of music-hall song: Ah, I fear I'm not likely to meet you In those serious hours of the Long. You once said I danced like a fairy, Yet are dances but circles and squares, And " quadrata rotundis mutare "--(It is Horace, dear Algy)--who cares? Oh, if squaring the circle were possible! How I...
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Add this copy of Echoes From the Oxford Magazine: Being Reprints of to cart. $56.29, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hialeah, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Palala Press.
Add this copy of Echoes From the Oxford Magazine: Being Reprints of to cart. $56.29, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hialeah, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Palala Press.
