Word: bohemia
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...House of Death," a poem of hers, dear to her old friend Phillip Burke Marston. Mr. George Parsons Lathrop gave "October Snow" and "Keenan's Charge." Mr. John Boyle O'Reilly followed with a number of epigrams, which were enthusiastically received; also the poems "Ensign Epps" and "In Bohemia." Mr. Charles Follen Adams amused his audience greatly by his recital of "Little Jacob Straus." The last reader who rendered original selections was Miss Charlotte Fiske Bates, to whose untiring exertions the entertainment of the evening was entirely due. Her most applauded poem was a "Quatrain on the Years." The programme...
...again, if we may trust the statements of such as Zola, Daudet, Balzac and Theophile Gautier - men who have been through the mill - the Bohemia whence they started is a hotbed...
...Bacchus, Venus, sitting on them, while vineyard laborers, with grape-laden baskets, dance about them. Then comes Sileuns, reeling from his ass and surrounded by a fantastic bevy of mymphs satyrs, demons, goblins and bats. We move forward to the 13th of June, 1613, and ill starred Frederick of Bohemia, with his bride Elizabeth, daughter of James of England, heads a stately train. "The tea-cup time of patch and hood" is upon us now. The Count and Countess of Lenox, Countess of Harrington, Count of Arundel, with a great retinue of lords and ladies, accompanying the young wife...
...time to time since the fifteenth century. In modern times-i. e., within the last twenty years-the universities have been more or less entirely thrown open to women in France, Holland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland, and Spain; but still remain closed in Germany, Austria, Portugal, Poland, and Bohemia.-[Academy...