Word: ballade
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...king is sitting at table with Olivier-Le-Daim, his barber and favorite, when a great commotion is heard in the street, and Gringoire, the vagabond poet, is seen without. Gringoire has incurred the enmity of Olivier, who summons him into the mansion and compels him to sing a ballad of his with which all the streets of Paris are ringing. The ballad is directed against the king, and Olivier hopes to bring about the composer's ruin by having him sing it in the royal presence. At its close the king commands Olivier to leave the room. When alone...
...love of Paris until he saw Helen" ought not to be necessary in a college community, but perhaps the author is right in taking no chances. The other poems call for no special comment H. Bagedorn's "Song among Ruins" is finished and pleasing, W. H. Wright's "Ballad of Primeval Things," conventional. A. Davis's "Battle Hymn" suffers from too evident striving for vigorous phrases, which sometimes ends in grotesqueness...
...clock this evening in Sever 11 Mr. Copeland will give his fourth reading from "Wits and Humorists." Among the selections will be a chapter from "The Pickwick Papers," Thackeray's "Ballad of Bouillabaisse," Lowell's "The Courtin'," and several of Holmes's poems. The reading will be open only to members of the University...
Phillips Brooks House will be open tomorrow afternoon from 3 to 6 o'clock. At 4 o'clock Mr. G. Riddle '74, instructor in elocution in the University from 1878 to 1881, and a public reader of prominence, will read the following selections: "The Ballad of East and West," by Kipling; "Wives in a Social Game," Anonymous; "Mark Antony and the Roman Citizens," from "Julius Caesar," by Shakespere; "The Village Dressmaker," from "Timothy's Quest," by Kate Douglas Wiggin; "Carcassonne," from the French of Nadaud, by M. E. W. Sherwood: "Aunt Doleful's Visit," by Mary Kyle Dallas...
...fourth number of the Advocate, which appeared yesterday, contains the following article: Editorials; "Storm," by H. S. Wyndham-Gittens '06; "Stung," by H. D. Chandler '06; "The Ballad of Those That Mock," by J. Hinckley '06; "Harvard Types, 2, Our Friend Brattle Hall," by J. H. B.; "The Rest of the Circle," by Van Wyck Brooks '08; "A Freshman's Letters Home," by E. D. B.; "To a Man of Pompeii," by Van Wyck Brooks...