Her friends asked what kind of amusement she expected to find among the illiterate swarm of ordinary people who in Washington represented constituencies so dreary that in comparison New York was a New Jerusalem, and Broad Street a grove of academe.
"Democracy An American Novel"
Henry Adams
It was a delicious revival of academe-in the walks, or beneath the rustic porticoes of that little cottage-the romantic philosopher and the beautiful disciple!
"Ernest Maltravers, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
There the meads of academe shake to the footfall of the philosophers as they pace along: there are the peaks of Parnassus, and there is the Stoic Porch.
"The Great Book-Collectors"
Charles Isaac Elton and Mary Augusta Elton