"Harris" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and amused at her critical commendation of the wonders that she saw. From that very resolute little mouth I received a lecture on American literature, the nature and inwardness of Washington society, the precise value of Cable's works as compared with Uncle Remus Harris, and a few other things that had nothing whatever to do with geysers, ...
— American Notes • Rudyard Kipling
... those things which, being not now doing, or having not yet been done, have a natural aptitude to exist hereafter, may be properly said to appertain to the future.'—Harris's 'Hermes,' book I, chap. viii (p. 155, foot-note, ed. 1771). For Harris's being not now doing, which is to translate μὴ γινόμενα, the modern school, if they pursued uniformity with more of fidelity than of taste, would have to put being not now being done. There is not much ...
— The Verbalist • Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)
... received through letters, telegrams and fraternal delegates. Prof. John A. Scott, representing president A. M. Harris of Northwestern University, Evanston, brought an invitation for speakers to address the students and Miss Gordon and Miss Caroline Lexow responded. In his greeting Professor Scott said: "I believe in ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V • Ida Husted Harper
... Opera Show was quite a sight; Your Sheriff HARRIS—well— AUGUSTUS, after Actium's fight, Was scarce a greater swell. The long parade, led by the Blues, Gave me the blues again. Not that the citizen were screws, ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, July 18, 1891 • Various
... triumph, as he lashed his gallant barb; Strong men swooned, and small boys whistled, sympathetic hounds did yell Lovely maidens smiled their sweetest on the men who'd rowed so well: Goldie, Hibbert, Lang, and Bonsey, Sawyer, Burnside, Harris, Brooke; And the pride of knighthood, Bayard, who the right course ne'er forsook, But the sight which most rejoiced me was the well-known form aquatic Of a scholar famed for boating and for witticisms Attic. Proud, I ween, was Lady Margaret her Professor ...
— Sagittulae, Random Verses • E. W. Bowling
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