Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...study law. He found poetry, however, more interesting, and returned to Frankfort, but afterward completed his legal education at Strasburg. With his entering into Strasburg came the beginning of his intellectual wakening, for the sight of the great cathedral and his falling in love with the village pastor's daughter furnished him themes for many of his most famous lyrics. In 1775 he left for a short visit to a small principality where he became so intimate with the duke that their intimacy became the general topic of conversation. For ten years Goethe, as prime minister, fulfilled the duties...
...Louis Dyer, formerly assistant professor of Greek was recently married to Miss Macmillan, daughter of the great English publisher...
...Atlantic for October contains a long instalment of Mr. Bynnier's interesting serial, "The Begum's Daughter." There are several very good historical essays. The first is a description of the experiences of a non-combatant in South Carolina in 1861, by J. R. Kendrick. John Fiske offers another of his critical essays on the Revolutionary period, the topic being, "The Monmouth and Newport Campaigns." "The Closing Scene of the Iliad," by William C. Lawton, will be of interest to all classical students. One of the most readable articles in the number is "Fictions in the Pulpit," by Agnes Repplier...
...character of the stories is traced. Professor Royce publishes his second paper of "Reflections after a Wandering Life in Australasia" which is fully as thoughtful and interesting as the first. The rest of the number is full of interest. The serials are "The Tragic Muse" and "The Begum's Daughter." The latter is a story of the socalled Dutch rebellion in New York in 1690, and promises to be very good. The other articles are "The Highest Structure in the World," a description of the great Eiffel tower in Paris, by William A. Eddy, "Bonny Hugh of Ironbrook," by Edith...
...Morgan then briefly sketched the story of Medea. How she helped Jason to fulfil his tasks, and secure the golden fleece; how she at length became his wife, and how he deserted her to marry the daughter of the king of Corinth, and Medea's revenge for her wrongs. The story served as a thread to bind together and give connection to the pictures...