Word: gorgeous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...products of the Harvard Press which have been picked for exhibition are "The Essays of Montaigne," translated by George B. Ives '76, "A Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions," edited by Hyder E. Rollins, "The Passports Printed by Benjamin Franklin at his Passy Press." "Shakspere's Debt to Montaigne," by George Coffin Taylor '99, and "Bruce Rogers: Designer of Books" by Frederique Warde...
...Essays of Montaigne," in the London Times says, "The version of Mr. Ives seems to me masterly to a very high degree; it was worth waiting for, and completely supersedes all precursors. I hope this admirable work may eventually take its place as the authorized English translation." The "Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions," supplies the much felt need of all students of Elizabethan literature. This is the first time that this work has been reprinted since its original publication in 1578. It is based on one of the two copies in existence. The particular copy on which this is based...
...fashioned from a monstrous weight of gold and gems to inaugurate the new dynasty. Behind strode other officials, Cabinet members, all bearing other crowns and diadems, which they set beside the throne. Last came a smiling jaunty dare-devil with a light in his eye, striding swiftly in a gorgeous pearl embroidered cape, wearing his habitual military cap adorned with a single aigret. With lithe dignity he seated himself on the Peacock Throne. Quickly he removed his cap. Almost as quickly he placed the Pahlavi crown upon his well groomed head.* Then he stood up and gazed about him, tingling...
...evacuate. When the convulsions of the mountain sent the slowly creeping river of slag down upon them, they pushed off from shore in their outrigger canoes, abandoning their efforts to placate the goddess Pele* with offerings of burned pig, herbs, liquor and prayers. Passengers on a steamship had a gorgeous sight of a white-hot avalanche plunging into the sea with a roar like a host of locomotives belching blood-colored smoke and towering geysers of steam...
Flecker's letters show that he was seeking a new conception of Don Juan. Most readers will conclude that the poet's death (1915) occurred with the search still unfinished. But we have glimpses of the Flecker we know best?gorgeous lines. The Don Juan of the play loves a gypsy, deserts her in a motor, is betrothed to a Prime Minister's daughter, murders him to prevent a war, kills his prospective sister-in-law, whom he has unconvincingly kissed a few pages earlier, and finally shoots his fiancee. The late Prime Minister's statue then beckons the hero...