Word: mistress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Parker in his "Coming of Isolde" tells in a few words the final tragedy in the old romance of Sir Tristran and his fair mistress, the king's wife. The tale is skillfully told. The whole story of the two lives is faintly hinted at, although nothing but the closing chapter of that story is given. It would be difficult to find an unnecessary word in the last two pages. Mr. Dodge's essay, "What is a Sonnet?" is the best piece of work in this number of the Monthly. The writer examines the various forms in which the sonnet...
...pirate ship, with the pirate crew scattered about, engaged in the apparently peaceable occupations of ordinary seamen. This scene is very realistic and most tastefully arranged. The pirate captain arrives with Constance, who is presently followed by her companion, Cherry, who has come aboard to be near her mistress. Dawdle and Rattles come aboard in disguise, bent on rescuing Constance. They have been informed of her capture by Rooney, porter of the Shorn Lamb, who has been a witness of most of the scenes of the preceding act. They join the pirates, and after being duly sworn in, concoct...
PARK THEARE. Rosina Vokes in "The School mistress...
PARK THEARE. Rosina Vokes in "The School-mistress...
...happy enough to have a dear infidel; but don't think her unfaithful, I could not love her if she was. There is a baseness in all deceit which my sould is virtuous enough to abhor, and therefore I look with horror on adultery. But my amiable mistress is no longer bound to him who was her husband; he has used her shockingly ill. Is she not then free? She is, it is clear, and no argument can disguise it. She is now mine, and were she to be unfaithful to me, she ought to be pierced with a Corsican...