Word: ballads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Readings from German Ballad-Poets. Burger. Mr. Hochdurfer. Sever...
GERMAN LECTURES.On Tuesday, January 11, Mr. Hochdorfer will begin a series of evening readings from German Ballad-Poets. On the 11th he will translate and read selections from Burger; and on successive Tuesdays he will select poems from Goethe, Schiller, Uhland, Heine, and others. The readings will be given in Sever 11. The book used will be: "Mustersammlung Deutscher Gedichte" by Ernst Keller...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I saw the other day in the CRIMSON a stanza of an old ballad, about which it may interest your readers to know more. It was composed by Jabez Allen of Stoneham. This Allen was a hard character generally, who took a particular delight in pulling down the dam which flowed Spot Pond meadows, owned by one Timothy Sprague. On one occasion while he was at his usual sport, Sprague saw him, and ordered him to desist, whereupon he wounded Sprague with a charge of buckshot. Either for this or for some other escapade, he was sentenced...
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...mournful Ballad of Isaac Abbott: E. P. Cranch. Robert Clarke & Co., Cincinnati...