Word: beggar
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Selection, "Beggar Student," Millocker...
...Beggar Student" is meeting with splendid reception this week. Next week, patrons will have the pleasure of hearing "Aida" for the first time. The cast will be a strong one, and scenery and costumes...
COMIC opera returns to the Castle Square Theatre next week after a long absence in the welcome form of Millocker's "Beggar Student." This was the opera given by the company when it opened its season 54 weeks ago, and its return will be hailed with delight by those who remember the production then. That for the coming week will be vastly superior in every way, for the singers have gained a great deal by their year's training, and the staging will be of that very high excellence which has been attained only by months of arduous effort...
...religion of priests, of the worst form which became no longer vital with the people. A system of religious orders arose regulated by the most strenuous caste laws. In these orders there were four periods; that of the religious student; the householder; the forest hermit; and the wandering beggar. Of these orders the most important were the dualistic Sankhya philosophy, and the monistic, pantheistic Vedanta which recognized one supreme being in the universe of which every man's soul is not a part, but the being itself. All these teachings had the one practical purpose of securing emancipation from...
...less known anecdotes of Johnson makes clear what, in spite of success and reputation and the pleasure of being dictator-or, to use Smollett's word, the great Cham of literature-remained a pervading quality of his great, uncouth, impeded man of genius. He asked an old beggar woman, who accosted him once in the street, who she was, and her reply that she was an old struggler gave the doctor keen delight. Johnson, too, so he rejoined, was an old struggler, and bestowed upon the beggar woman all the money he had in his pockets. And this sense...