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...Prince Ananias," the new opera by Victor Herbert and Francis Neilson, has proven one of such pronounced success that of course the major portion of the Boston engagement will be devoted to it. It treats in a bright, tuneful, and comical way with the adventures of a vagabond poet, an outlaw, a king who has never smiled in the whole course of his life, and a band of strolling players...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notice. | 2/27/1895 | See Source »

...writer moved to Bath where he was educated. At the age of fifteen, he could write Greek and Latin, and two years afterwards spoke the ancient, languages fluently. Soon he borrowed five pounds and plunged into the unknown world. He wandered to Wales and there lived as a literary vagabond. In a short time, he was discovered and removed by friends. In October 1803, he went to Worcester College, Oxford, and sought neither friends nor university honors. The exposure and privations which he had previously experienced drove him to the demoralizing habit of eating opium, the source of so many...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Black's Lecture. | 4/25/1893 | See Source »

...best is a vagabond stupid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPECTRE DEGREE. | 12/10/1880 | See Source »

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