Word: witchcrafts
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...watch and glass of water, the last two of which did duly in the grave-diggers' scene. But these were only the comedy relief. Copey began to read. Bless us! what sonorous organ-tones rolled out of that little body seated in the swivel chair. And what was the witchcraft that he used? Vanished worlds arose from the graves of time to live again in pomp and pageantry. Homer's heroes exchanged ringing blows on the windy plains of Troy. Armored knights spurred in quest of the Holy Grail. Lear went raving over the heath. A tramp steamer careened across...
...Opera House, Manhattan, Carl Maria Friedrich Ernest von Weber's Der Freischüts was subjected to a revival. This opera, first produced in 1821, is perhaps the ultimate word in heavy German Romanticism. It is a tale of love, of shooting, of dense, dismal forests, of magic, witchcraft, enchantment, satanic spells and supernatural apparitions, ghastly, eerie, gruesome, horrible. But its moral tone is pure and lovely...
Stoughton, a member of the class of 1650, was one of the most prominent men of his time in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, of which he was lieutenant-governor. He served as chief justice in the notorious Salem witchcraft trials. It was he who presented to the University the original Stoughton Hall, which, "being an unsubstantial piece of masonry," had to be taken down in 1780 and was succeeded in 1806 by the present Stoughton Hall...
...frame of mind appears to remain constant, but he finds himself defending and rejecting very different things. The great issue may, according to the period, be a primitive taboo, the utterances of the Delphic oracle, the Athanasian creed, the Inquisition, the Geocentric theory, monarchy by the grace of God, witchcraft, slavery, war, capitalism, private property, or noble isolation. All of these tend to appear to the conservative under the aspect of eternity, but all of these things have come, many of them have gone, and the remainder would seem to be subject to undreamed-of modifications as time goes...
...Modern Language Conference. "The Grateful Lion," Mr. A. G. Brodeur; "Magic and Witchcraft in the Elizabethan Drama," Mr. H. W. Hoorington. Common Room, Conant Hall...