Word: lear
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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NOTWITHSTANDING the unfavorable weather, one hundred and fifty persons, including several ladies of the Annex, were present, Tuesday evening, at Professor Child's reading from King Lear...
...What justification had King Lear's daughters...
Oxford University, Keble College, March 16. - 100 yards, E. D. Lear and C. T. Sanctuary (dead heat). 11 sec.; 440-yards handicap, C. T. Sanctuary (5 yds.), 53 4/5 sec.; high jump, M. F. Remington, 5 ft. 1 in.; 440 yards, J. E. Masters, 55 1/5 sec.; mile-race, P. A. Sullivan, 4 min. 54 sec.; 1000-yards open handicap, R. C. Black (St. Albans...
...Taylor, '75. F. Dumaresque, A. B. Ellis, and W. H. Holman, all of '75, obtained second prizes. The selection of Mr. Fenollosa afforded excellent opportunities for a display of forcible oratory, which were fully improved. As a dramatic recitation, the rendering of a selection from Shakespeare's King Lear by Mr. Taylor was something wholly unusual in its excellence. Mr. Dumaresque, in his selection from Bulwer's Richelieu, was distinguished in a similar manner. Mr. Ellis delivered, with appreciative feeling, a portion of Webster's speech on the murder of White, while Mr. Holman was very successful in meeting...