Word: orpheus
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Recitative and Aria. "Che faro senza Euridice." from Orpheus. Gluck. Miss Mathilde Phillipps...
Rivalling the lyre of Orpheus...
...II.Sad Orpheus of the sweet-toned lyre, once weeping...
...Freshman's whole trip will be one triumphal journey, which will culminate only when he alights from his carriage to fall into the arms of those goddesses, his sisters. Such a welcome! Why, there will have been nothing like it since Orpheus was torn to pieces by those Thracian ladies, long ago. You shall hear him say at dinner that he went to the punch just to look on. On the same evening he will tell the boys that he was full of Bacchus; and then he will wake the midnight echoes of the quiet old town, to show them...