Word: queene
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...part of Hamlet, the points where you value the picture of the character most are first; in the scene where he follows the ghost from the stage, holding the hilt of his sword in front of him; and again where, having stabbed Polonius, he turns to the Queen demanding "Is it the King?" Mr. Irving presents varying and sometimes. grotesque attitudes one after another, and the highest pictorial effect by M. Mounet Sully is the fluttering exit after the "Words, words, words," speech to Polonius...
...Baker said that the Elizabethan period was distinctly a dramatic epoch. At school boys were obliged to study Latin plays, and sometimes used to act in them. At the university great interest was taken in dramatic art; and when the Queen visited Oxford or Cambridge, she bestowed a prize on the one who wrote the best Latin play. This sort of training naturally produced a coterie of skilful playwrights...
...Gainsborough left Bath and moved to London, a migration which was due to the well-meant but intolerable persecution of his friend Fickness. At London he was more successful than ever. The queen invited him to paint her portrait. He did it so well that he was asked to paint the portraits of all the royal family. In 1784 he sent a full length picture of the three princesses to the Royal Academy, which he requested to be hung on a line with the eye. This the officials refused to do, and the matter ended by his withdrawing the picture...
...city before joining the rest of the party who came through later on their way to Cincinnati. In that city the clubs arrived early Monday morning and went to the Gibson House. The privileges of the University Club were given to the men during their stay. The Queen City Club also gave a supper after the concert...
...ordained a minister of the Scotch Church and became an active supporter of Dr. Chalmers in the establishment of the Free Church. He married Miss Isabel Guthrie, a niece of Dr. Thomas Guthrie, the distinguished Edinburgh clergyman. In 1851 he was appointed professor of logic at Queen's College, Belfast. There he remained till he was called to be president of Princeton College in 1866. He resigned that office in 1888, and thereafter lived in comparative retirement. His death had been expected for some time as he failed rapidly within the last few months...