Word: esther
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...direction of Madame de Maintenon, the girls of this school had already produced a play of Corneille. After this Madame de Maintenon requested Racine to write a play for the school. He complied, but his "Andromaque" was not quite suitable for her purposes, and soon afterwards he wrote "Esther," a tragedy drawn from Holy Writ. Inspired by his biblical material Racine wrote "Athalie" his masterpiece, but owing to the intervention of the spiritual advision of the school, the first performances of the play were stripped of their beauty and left cold without the charm of costumes or the splendid music...
...Stevenson."The Weird Sisters," Esther Singleton. "Was George Eliot a Hypocrite...
...making him pure and clean and invigorating him with the energy of a new life. In this verse, however, the author is thinking of the shedding, not the use of blood after its being shed. He has in mind the self-sacrificing of men for the life of others, - Esther interposing herself to save the Jews, or the engineer standing by his engine as it rushes on to certain destruction. This spark of heroic fire which is in men is God-like; and Jew or Christian, Mohammedan or Pagan, who can look death in the face and say, "Where...
There is a sketch of Kenyon Cox, the artist, and one on "Chinese Music." Among the stories are G. A. Hibbard's "In Maiden Meditation," Viola Roseboro's "Nannie's Career," and Esther Carpenter's "At the Town Farm." Among the poems is "On Looking into an Old Album," by C. K. Bolton...
Globe Theatre.- Benefit to Miss Esther Palliser...