Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hill in the town, once served as a landmark for incoming vessels by day, and there is a legend that at night two great carbuncles set in the walls of the church flamed forth like beacons. The most interesting ruins are those of the Church of the Holy Ghost, a peculiar eight-sided building of two stories...
...weakness, Blackwood's "Johnny Keats," the stanza in Don Juan, and even Shelley's Adonais have after their varying fashions given the world a false impression; and George Keats's saying that his brother was about as much like "Johnny Keats" as he was like the Holy Ghost is needed-with the ample testimony that supports it-to strike a truthful balance. What Keats's development would have been no man can hope to know. Matthew Arnold has said, "He is with Shakespeare." We can only say that Keats in his later work showed a sympathy with the moral...
...large and appreciative audience attended Mr. Copeland's reading yesterday afternoon. The selections were taken from Hamlet and included the principal ghost scenes and those between Hamlet and Ophelia...
This afternoon at 4.30 p. m., Mr. C. T. Copeland will read in Sever 11 some selections from Hamlet including the principal ghost scenes and the scenes between Hamlet and Ophelia. This will be the last of the series of afternoon lectures and will be open to the public though particularly designed for students and their friends...
...fell naturally into the poses, which caused many people to think of him as cold and statue like. In Mr. Booth's interpretation of the part of Hamlet, the points where you value the picture of the character most are first; in the scene where he follows the ghost from the stage, holding the hilt of his sword in front of him; and again where, having stabbed Polonius, he turns to the Queen demanding "Is it the King?" Mr. Irving presents varying and sometimes. grotesque attitudes one after another, and the highest pictorial effect by M. Mounet Sully...