Word: blas
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Overture, "Ruy Blas," Mendelssohn...
...plays of Victor Hugo are good only by reason of their form,- their lyric quality, in "Hernani" and "Ruy Blas,"- their epic character in the "Burgraves," which was a forerunner of "La Legende des Siecles...
...critic, he was insensible to Scott, to Byron, to Shelley, to the contemporary in general; he preferred Smollet to Fielding, and yet could not read Gil Blas; but towards the English writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, he showed himself a critic of genius. Although Lamb did more, however, for bringing back Sir Thomas Browne and other old writers to life in the sense of causing them to be read again in the nineteenth century, it is not to be forgotten that Lamb struck a happy vein of contemporary criticism as one of the very earliest welcomers of Wordsworth...
...Overture, "Ruy Blas," Mendelssohn...
...tfTHE repertoire for Alexander Salvini's second and last week at the Hollis has been arranged as follows: Monday, "Don Caesar de Bazan;" Tuesday, "Friend Fritz," and "Rustic Chivalry;" Wednesday night and Saturday matinee, "Ruy Blas;" Thursday and Saturday evening, "Three Guardsmen;" Friday night, "Hamlet...