Word: peasants
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Promenade concert in Music hall next Wednesday evening. The selections will include "Schneides Band," "Drill Tarriers," "Boating Song," "Courtship," "Three Glasses," "Estudiantina Waltzes," ',Man in the Moon," "Imogene Donahue," "Drinking Medley," and "Fair Harvard." This evening's programme includes the "Fra Diavola" "Ruy Blas," and "Poet and Peasant" overture, selections from Rossini's Stabat Mater" and "Chassaigue's Folka," some "Tannhauser" reminiscences, waltzes by Strauss and Waldteufel, the "Arion Carnival March," and other brilliant numbers...
...Peasant Rebellion" is a brief sketch of an incident of the serf insurrection of 1525, by Mr. Prescott F. Hall. The description is delicately and pathetically written. There is no poetry in the number. It is completed by the usual Brief, which has at last come down nearly to date...
...Toros," a story of a bull-fight in South American, is well told and ends in quite dramatic fashion. It can hardly boast of much originality, however. "A Backward Glance" is very amusing. "Roses and Cypress" is a sympathetically told tale of the exciting love of a pretty Italian peasant girl and the misery it brought her. It smacks a little of the hero and Leander. One lays down this number with the agreeable feeling of having been entertained and of having had one's imagination stimulated. This is precisely the object which the Advocate should set itself and this...
...mighty man of the Helvetii, and it was noticed that the great statesman never raised his eyes throughout his stay from an ancient manuscript, which rumor said had been sent to him from Alexandria. Many were the conjectures as to the nature of the writing. At last an old peasant ventured to approach the reader and gaze over his shoulder. These words, in Caesar's own hand, met his eye, "The Gods confound me if I did not lose two millions of sesterces last night. My villa at Tibur and all the statues which my father brought from Ephesus must...
...getting excited about it. He knows man to be "a poor devil" in every way, and would like to prove this by carrying him off; and if he does not succeed, he will have a chance at least of doing a little miscellaneous mischief by the way-ruining a peasant girl, or the emperor's finances. When the attempt finally fails, he turns the laugh against the other side, which has been so earnest to prevent him, by showing how little he cares for what they make such a fuss about. "The holy ones triumph, but the evil one-whistles...