Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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During all this time, literature had been gradually breaking down the barriers between peasant and lord...
...Poushkin, the name of Lermontov is the most celebrated. Comparing him with his great contemporary, the lecturer defined Lermontov as "the poet of romantic pessimism." An important place in Russian poetry belongs to Koltsoff for having introduced into literature elements of popula language, and especially for having made the peasant's life an object of fiction, thus giving them the place they have since held in the development of Russian literature...
...second of Mrs. Catherwood's studies in provincial France is entitled a A Little Domestic, and is a charming picture of peasant life. The second instalment of F. J. Stimson's Pirate Gold is full of dramatic interest...
...birth, ancestry, and early life. Emerson, the well-bern and liberally-trained, descendant of a long line of New England ministers, belonged definitely to the class of gentle-folk. Carlyle, although he was a graduate of Edinburgh University, and became the chief English man of letters, was a Scottish peasant by birth, and remained in some ways a peasant to the last. Emerson's life, by temperament and by circumstances, was one of almost unbroken peace and calm. Carlyle's experience was full of storm and trouble...
...cast will be : Don Jose, a brigadier, Mr. Thomas Persse; Escamillo, a toreador, Mr. J. K. Murray; II Dancairo, a smuggler, Mr. William Wolff; II Remendado, a smuggler, Mr. Arthur Wooley; Zuniga, a captain, Mr. John Read; Morales, a brigadier, Mr. Albert Regas; Michaela, a peasant girl, Miss Edith Mason; Frasquita, a gipsy friend of Carmen, Miss Bertha Davis; Mercedes, another gipsy friend, Miss Hattie Ladd; Carmen, a cigarette girl, afterward a gipsy, Miss Clara Lane...