Word: hilarion
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Escorted by a squadron of Turkish torpedo boats, the Tsar Ferdinand finally dropped anchor off the Bulgarian Black Sea port of Burgas. With a cross in one hand, an icon in the other, the Metropolitan Hilarion ("the Merry One") was first to welcome Their Majesties home. On the wharf a comely company of Bulgarian maidens poured water on the feet of Tsar Boris, a similar group of young men sprinkled his bride, now Tsaritza Ivana, as a hope that their lives might be as smooth as the surface of water...
...Herbert Hilarion Yeames; Senior, Harvard College; Classical Philology...
...achieved a success in London, and that comes before a Boston audience on Monday evening next, under the name of "Princess Ida, or Castle Adamant." The plot of the opera is nearly the same as that of Tennyson's poem, and may be briefly described as follows: Prince Hilarion, the son of King Hildebrand, has been betrothed in boyhood to the Princess Ida, the only daughter of Gama, a neighboring monarch. When the Prince is of age, King Hildebrand sends to Gama and claims his daughter's hand for his son. King Gama replies that he would be only...
...hearing this news, King Hildebrand is highly wroth, and is about to declare war on the Princess and bring her by force, but is persuaded by Prince Hilarion and his two friends Cyril and Florian to allow them to go to the castle and attempt to turn the Princess from her stern resolve. The king not only gives his consent but agrees to go with them, and the four set out to capture Castle Adamant by cunning. The next act is at Castle Adamant, and after several vain attempts to enter the castle the four wanderers dress themselves...