Word: gorgeous
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Venice in dressing their gondoliers in the most elegant liveries. This poem was rapturously applauded, and, though brief, received as much praise as given to any during the evening. The Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale read two selections from "Mr. Ingram's Double"- the Double's success at Governor Gorgeous' Ball, and the ruinous consequences of the imposture at the town meeting. Dr. Hale's reading lent an additional interest to this charming bit of comedy. Mr. William Winter moved the audience deeply when he read with much feeling "Lines Written a Few Days After Longfellow's Death...
...Sophomore Theatricals were acted to a full house last night. The performance began at 8.30, with a chorus of gorgeous, though needy, noblemen, who explained to music from. "Fra Diavolo" that, having been crossed in love, ruined, and otherwise maltreated, had taken to piracy to retrieve their broken fortunes; that their captain, Stubbs, having insisted on taking a ship with ladies on board, they had put him in irons, and now fresh from a ship-wreck were in doubt what to do. A solo, rendered by Weaver as Stubbs, and a chorus tune, "The Bowery Grenadiers" deserve notice. The stage...
...poem is a very welcome departure from the abstruse and would-be metaphysical lines that fill the columns of college magazines. Mr. Bruce's success in this narrative style ought to encourage others to follow on this path which is bordered by flowers quite as delicate, if not as gorgeous, as those that hedge in the would-be metaphysics...
About two hundred enthusiastic Harvard graduates sat down to a gorgeous banquet at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York on Monday night. The hall was hung with the crimson banner of the club, with the coat of arms, and the date of the founding of the club...
...only in this latter period that the kings began to erect gorgeous palaces, as all their attention was at first bestowed upon building temples worthy of their great gods...