Word: madonnas
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this supposition, for the records on the style show absolutely no trace of medical practice. The cures were simple miracles. The whole matter is very well illustrated by the present annual pilgrimages of sick people to the island of Tenos, to be healed at the shrine of the Madonna. A plan of Epidauros and a number of bas-reliefs were shown to the audience by means of the stereopticon...
...Books, - Craddock: In the Clouds; Gladden: Applied Christianity; Phelps: Madonna of the Tubs; Bacon: Dictionary of Boston; Agassiz: Geological Sketches; Dr. Williams: Our Eyes; New Series of Dr. Brooks' Sermons; Some Essays of Elia (new form); J. Shorthouse: Sir Percival; Brandes: Eminent Authors of the 19th Century; Stockton: The Casting away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine; From London Spectator: Days with Sir Roger de Coverly. Songs of Harvard, (new) 75 cents...
...Books, - Craddock: In the Clouds; Gladden: Applied Christianity; Phelps: Madonna of the Tubs; Bacon: Dictionary of Boston; Agassiz: Geological Sketches; Dr. Williams: Our Eyes; New Series of Dr. Brooks' Sermons; Some Essays of Elia (new form); J. Shorthouse: Sir Percival; Brandes: Eminent Authors of the 19th Century; Stockton: The Casting away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine; From London Spectator: Days with Sir Roger de Coverly...
...Medici, called "II Pensieroso," from its attitude and look of melancholy abstraction. It is said to be the second cast ever made, the first having been secured by the South Kensington. Dr. W. S. Bigelow of Boston has given the museum another plaster cast from Michael Angelo - a "Madonna and Child," at Bruges. Casts from the Apollo, Centaurs and women figures discovered at Olympia by the German expedition in 1879 have been added to the fine series already in place. They are supposed to have adorned the western pediment of the Temple of Jupiter...
...only for one of those giddy girls again. It was in a stationer's shop where I first saw her. She was standing before a counter, and as I entered she glanced beseechingly toward me with her "violet velvet eyes, over which the silken fringes hung with such tender madonna grace." After a few such glances, that settled it. I could not help breaking my vow only to marry a girl with a million dollars and one lung. Soon she left the shop, and as I hurried past the counter where she had been standing I saw a card...