Word: mistress
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wild flowers, are everywhere in romance. They have a mysterious life and grace there; they are Nature's own children, and utter her secret in a way which makes them something quite different from the woods, waters, and plants of Greek and Latin poetry. Now of this delicate a mistress, that it seems impossible to believe the power did not come into romance from the Celts. Magic is just the word for it,- the magic of nature; not merely the beauty of nature,- that the Greeks and Latins had; not merely an honest snack of the soil,- that the Germans...
...lecture will include comment on the characters of Sir John Falstaff and "Henry Percy, surnamed Hotspur"; criticism of Henry VIII in the representations of Mr. Irving and other players; and reading of the Crispin speech, the scene between Falstaff and the Chief Justice, and Mistress Quickly's description of the death of Falstaff...
...lecture will include comment on the characters of Sir John Falstaff and "Henry Percy, surnamed Hotspur"; criticism of Henry VIII in the representations of Mr. Irving and other players; and reading of the Crispin speech, the scene between Falstaff and the Chief Justice, and Mistress Quickly's description of the death of Falstaff...
...filthy and ugly woman said she would save King Arthur, if Gawain would wed her. The tale says she was the ugliest woman alive, yet Gawain readily offered to marry her. So she told Arthur that women liked sovereignty most. Thus Arthur escaped, but poor Gawain found an arrogant mistress in his wife. At last, however, she bade him choose between having her beautiful by day and ugly by night, or the reverse. When he gave her own way she was released from her cruel enchantment and became a beautiful creature, who ever remained his loving and obedient wife...
Museum - "The School Mistress...