Word: raleigh
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...calls them and satirizes them most vehemently. This continued till he had almost everybody against him. In King James' reign he brought out three well-known comedies, namely "Volpone," "The Silent Woman" and "The Alchemist." In 1613 Jonson went to France to tutor the son of Walter Raleigh, and after returning to England wrote his comedy "The Devil is an Ass," which was directed very strongly against the mania for speculation...
...John Fiske contributes an historic article, "From King's Mountain to Yorktown;" other articles. of the historical critical-literary character, are by Louise Imogene Guivey and Margaret Christine Whiting on Slr Walter Raleigh and Mrs. Pepys. "Carriage Horses and Cobs' seems a curious companion for Birge Harrison's "New Departure in Parisian Art," and poems by Dr. Holmes, T. W. Parsons, R. W. Gilder and Helen Gray Cone. One other article deserves especial mention, that on Cardinal Newman. The present installments of the serials do not indicate any disposition to set the world on fire...
...burned. I enter the noble quadrangle of Christ Church, and remember that it was founded by Cardinal Wolsey, and that John Locke, Ben Johnson, Sir Philip Sydney, William Penn, the Duke of Wellington and William E. Gladstone have been among its students. Oriel College reminds us of Sir Walter Raleigh, Bishop Butler, Thomas Arnold and John H. Newman. Corpus Christi once had Coleridge for a pupil, and from University College the ethereal Shelly was expelled. John Wickliff was a fellow of Merton College in 1364, and Frederic W. Robertson and the saintly Helm, the author of the hymn, "From Greenlands...
Five of the buildings of the St. Augustin Normal School for colored students, at Raleigh, N. C., were burned yesterday. Loss...