Word: scotland
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Professor Child specially distinguished himself as a scholar of Anglo-Saxon and early English literature, and ranked foremost in the knowledge of songs and ballads. By his works he has done more to save to us the old songs and ballads of England and Scotland from oblivion than any other man. He was a great Shakespearian scholar, and in 1848 published a work entitle "Four Old Plays," containing a collection of old English plays. He was also a great lover of Chaucer and Spenser, and in 1858 edited an edition of the latter's poems...
Next week the Castle Square singers will take up for the first time Donizetti's thrilling grand opera, "Lucia Di Lammermoor." This opera is founded on Sir Walter Scott's novel "The Bride of Lammermoor," and the scene is laid in Scotland during the seventeenth century. The heroine, Lucy Ashton, is beset by evil throughout the opera, and finally murders her husband and dies. The final scene is the death of her lover, who stabs himself...
Robert Burns, said Mr. Copeland in his lecture last evening, was born on a farm in Scotland in the year 1759 and, with the exception of two long visits and one short visit to Edinburgh, spent in the country by far the greater part of his short life of thirty-seven years. He was induced to publish his poems in Kilmarnock in 1786 with the hope of raising money to pay his passage to Jamaica, and the success of an enlarged edition of this volume was such that he was not only the lion of the winter in Edinburgh...
...testimony of the century has been in favor of municipal suffrage for women.- (a) In many foreign countries she already possesses the power.- (1) England, Scotland, Wales.- (2) Australia and New Zealand.- (b) She possesses municipal suffrage in many States of the Union.- (c) Its extension has been favored, notably in Massachusetts, by many of the most eminent statesmen: W. S. Leaflet, Vol. I, No. 3 (Sept. 1888).- (d) It received 107,000 votes at the late referendum in this state...
Seminary of Economics. Beginnings of Trade and Industry in Scotland, with some account of the early Gilds. Mr. T. Allison. University...