Word: rusticity
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...Boniface as Daniel Dowlas scored a success. He rendered the part of the tallow chandler become nobleman with spirit. Mr. E. L. Davenport as Dick Dowlas also deserves mention. Mr. Charles Barron did the best he could with the rustic sickly sentiment with which his role was loaded...
...Suite in D by Dvorak is a quaint composition, with a rustic undercurrent throughout the five movements. The suite is not peculiarly characteristic, as most of his works, but still fantastic rhythm and odd treatment in orchestration give it individuality. The variety of movement, color and theme in the suite reveals the composer...
...Meaning of the Georgics" is a very appreciative study and points out with clearness the true spirit in which Virgil wrote these poems. The layman or the cursory reader is too apt to see in the Georgics nothing deeper than rustic romanticism of the idylls, and it is well to call attention to their real character...
...board walks, and everywhere underfoot, pools, rivulets, and streams of water, in which the unhappy student is obliged to wade. We think that this state of things, so often spoken of and so well known, ought to receive at least a trifling consideration from the authorities. If our rustic gardener is ignorant of the state of the walks, our geographical editor will conduct him to the "Chapel Morass," the "Holyoke Pond," the "Library Bog," and many other noted spots. We want this taken seriously; - it will deprive us of many editorials in the future...
...cloth" to contest wrestling bouts in the north country. There was no money- that bane of all sports- to compete for. He wrestled for honor alone, and if "t' priest could thraw t' shepherd" more likely were his sermons to find their way to the hearts of his rustic parishioners. One clergyman, when he had got up in years, was wont to boast...