Word: mediaevel
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...years ago, and contain some of the poet's veraes, written in his own hand to Miss Lowell. The sentiments expressed in these writings give an excellent clue to the thoughts and feelings of the late poet, who used to go about the country, side dressed up as a mediaevel bard. He wrote a little treatise entitled "Rhymes to be traded for broad" for use on such occasions, which is one of the group on view. Also in the exhibition are some lines written to Miss Lowell, entitled "Sentiment About the Aurora," "A Letter About my Four Programmes", containing some...
...once all the available candles and candlesticks in the building were rushed to the scene, and soon each of the long tables that now fill the former living room was lighted by a single slender candle, giving the scene a mediaevel appearance. An enterprising electrician, however, soon brought the banqueters back to the 20th century...
This pulpit, which is one of the finest monuments of mediaevel scupture, is an imposing and massive structure, some fifteen feet high, resting on Romanesque columns and richly adorned with high reliefs of singular power and beauty. Together with the colossal Crucifixion group from the Rood Screen of the same church and the monumental bronze gates of Augsburg Cathedral, which the Germanic Museum has just acquired, this gift of the King of Saxony is a highly important illustration of the remarkable state of perfection reached by German sculpture at the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth...
...Mosque of Tamerlane; the Castle of Neuschwan-stein, in Bavaria; the Sistine Chapel, in Rome; the Louvre, in Paris; Spanish Tapestries; Japanese Costume; prints from the British Museum; statues of gods and athletes, exhibited at the time of the football game; and illustrations of the human figure, ancient, mediaevel, and modern. At Christmas time, the Fogg Museum lent us a collection of photographs appropriate to the season. W. C. LANE, Chairman Library Committee...
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