Word: ralegh
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...Ralegh in Guiana. A chronicle-history, in two scenes, made after the Elizabethan manner, by Assistant Professor Wendell. To be produced by invitation of the Department of English. Sanders Theatre...
...Professor Wendell's play, "Ralegh in Guiana," in Sanders Theatre Monday evening, seats have been reserved for members of the Boston Tavern Club and for the Faculty. Seats in the second balcony, and a few in the first, are on sale at Sever's, and at Herrick's in Boston...
...Ralegh in Guiana, the play to be given in Sanders Theatre, on March 22, was written by Professor Wendell, for private performance in Boston. The play endeavors to set forth, somewhat in the manner of an Elizabethan chronicle history, the events which led to the failure of Sir Walter Ralegh's final effort to secure for England the possession of the country now called Venezuela. These are chiefly recorded in Ralegh's "Discovery of Guiana," and in his "Apology...
...Latin origin of much of Sir Thomas's writings, upon its quaintness, its dignity, and-when it is at its best-the solemn music of its cadences. The distinguishing qualities of seventeenth century prose were brought out, or rather suggested, by a rough comparison of Browne with Bacon, Ralegh, Hooker, Isask Walton, and Jeremy Taylor, who is Browne's only equal in his most splendid passages of ornate prose...