Word: altar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Pergamon, Dr. Tarbell showed a number of stereopticon views based on the researches made by the society at Berlin. Among the views shown were the market place, the temple to Athena, the library, the theatre, the temples to Trajan and Julian, the Acropolis, the Parthenon, and the great altar in which sacrifices were made. Views were also shown of the sculptures on the friezes of the different buildings, which are valuable as giving an idea of the implements of warfare used at that time. The sculpture of Pergamon lacks the grace and beauty which marks the higher period of Greek...
...tragedy. Its form is strikingly like an ancient amphitheatre and in fact save for the second gallery is essentially a copy. The theatre, therefore, thoroughly adapted itself to the setting of the ancient stage. The floor before the stage was occupied as of old by the chorus about the altar, and from it an easy flight of marble steps led to the court before the palace of Clytemnestra. The palace itself was represented by the schene and paraschene of the stage. It is impossible to enter here into a synopsis of the play. Suffice it to say the tragedy retains...
...amateur farmer, and even entering a suit against one Philip Rogers because he had not paid the ambitious farmer for some grain which had been sold to him. This Philip Rogers was very likely the kinsman of the fair Katharine Rogers, whom Shakespeare might have seen before the altar in the parish church of Stratford, one morning in 1605, when her father, a substantial burgher of the town, gave her away to young Robert Harvard, of Southwark. Who knows but that the poet, just then at work upon his Lear, may have stood in the crowd of friends about that...
...representation by the students was wisely made. It is an excellent example of the poet's liveliest style, and the text is pure and comparatively easy to master. The stage was set very prettily, and in accordance with Greek traditions. The front was the "Orchestra," with a white marble altar or thymele, where the prompter's box is in the opera. Back of this, the "proscenium" or regular stage of the Greeks, was elevated four feet, with marble steps leading to the "orchestra." The back scene had the three doors required in all Greek plays, the buildings being of yellowish...
...cheerful clear-toned song to tell his fellow birds that he is up. He must be deaf; for surely he cannot hear the beloved yodel say-"not this eve," each time he passionately offers himself. He continues unceasingly to offer himself, and all around him, living sacrifices on the altar of his divinity, who will never smile upon him. Young man, be not deceived; trust her not, she's fooling thee." You cannot,-we are sorry to blast your high-blown ambition by the revelation,-cannot yodel. Requiescat in pace, and let us too requiescat...