Word: loving
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...play was written about 1618 and held the stage a number of years, being probably the most popular comedy of that period. Like "Romeo and Juliet" it depicts the adventures of two members of warring families, who fall in love with each other. Although the play is published among the works of Beaumont and Fletcher, many scholars believe it to have been written, in part at least, by Rowley...
Following is a brief sketch of the plot: Don Julio, having fallen in love with Ismenia, goes to a county fair and is followed by the latter and her maid in disguise. While there the girls flirs with Don Julio and his companions, and win their love a second time. A by-scene in the play is afforded by the abduction of Florimel, daughter of the miller, by Count Otrante; later the miller and his son Bustopha succeed in winning the King's favor, Florimel is found at the home of the count, and the two eventtually fall in love...
...Second: Stroke, Hart; 7, Love-joy; 6, Shippee; 5, Hardy; 4, Hewins; 3, French; 2, Hyde; bow, Burroughs...
Franz von Grumbach, in love with his cousin Malwina, is visiting at the country place of his aunt. Finding that the steward and governess are in love with each other but too bashful to admit it, Franz has a newspaper prepared announcing their engagement. This leads to a number of complications and ends in the real engagement of Adelheid and Andreas. In the meantime Franz has succeeded in winning Malwina...
Mallarme was conspicuous for his love of music, which he called a "sacred pleasure," and he never missed the Sunday concerts conducted by Lamourdux. His charming conversation was another prominent characteristic and for fifteen years he received at his house on Tuesday evenings all the best poets of our time, who came to enjoy his strong and witty conversation. He was always better understood on such occasions than in his written prose, and this fact irritated him not a little. He always wrote, even the lectures he delivered in Belgium and England, in a very rich but difficult prose which...