Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Something of the regard with which the English invested their ceremony is known to the Americans who have paused in the Library of Congress for a silent minute before the draft of the Declaration of Independence, and who remember that the British crown is one thousand years older. It is not surprising that outsiders did not catch the spirit of the moment, for the peculiar, insular English people were at the moment most solemn and most English. "Defender of the Faith" is one of the titles of their King, but the meaning of the phrase has changed. George...
Robert S. Hillyer '17, associate professor of English, has been named Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, effective September 1, it was announced this morning...
...forgotten that Keats died in Rome. It was only by accident last night while lingering in the Piazza Di Spagna--the center of life of the old Papal Rome--that my eye wandered from the beautiful fountain of the "Baracaccia" to an inscription in Italian and English on the side of an old red building saying that here in 1822 the young English poet died...
...house, up two flights, paid two lires and was toured about by a young Italian girl who very carefully explained to me that Keats was a great poet; and so was Shelley and now this was a memorial library to them both all made possible through the generosity of English and American admirers. And now would I sign the book? Many people have signed it who have become great since. Then I seemed to hear the words...
Rare broadsides and contemporary newspaper accounts of the crowning of English rulers since James 1 in 1603, go on display this afternoon...