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...down from generation to generation, it was not till the end of the seventeenth century that they began to be known. Then it was that Ramsey set going the movement which culminated in the poetry of Burns, in the beautiful representation of every-day, homely experiences. In 1750 was born the true precursor of Burns, Robert Furgerson, from whom the greater poet gathered many ideas and suggestions...
...life is a very sad and pathetic one. He was always troubled with melancholy, which resulted twice in complete insanity, and was always worried by a dread of everlasting punishment. There was for him a high wall between himself and heaven, which he could never scale. He was born in November 1731 in Hertfordshire. His mother died when he was six years old, leaving him a delicate, sensitive child. Soon his father sent him to school, and while there, at the age of nine, melancholy seized him, aggravated by natural tendencies. It was of the sort to leave him profoundly...
...Suite No. 1, - an Andante with eight variations, including a charming moto contino for the first violins, and a Perpetuum Mobile with a complicated fugue, - are what might be called "elastic" music, - the triangle, piccolo and glockenspiel are often introduced. Though Moszowstki is of Russian descent he was born in Germany and his music savors more of the German School than the Russian. Both movements were played with fire and careful standing; Mr. Mole's difficult flute solo in the Andante being very skillfully executed...
Robert William Wood has sent in the first claim for the '91 class cradle. His daughter was born March...
...Born in a family of culture and religious thought, he early determined to enter the ministry. He was precocious in his progress toward scholarly attainments, and was graduated from Harvard at the age of fifteen, with two exceptions, the youngest graduate the college...