Word: princess
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Louise have paid a visit to McGill, and the Gazette gives us a long account of the proceedings. An address was inflicted on the vice-regal party, to which the Marquis responded, as usual, in some well-chosen words. A deputation of students presented a bouquet to the Princess Louise, which she was graciously pleased to accept. The Gazette says that "it is a matter of congratulation to know that no jealousy existed between the different faculties as to which one should be accorded the honor of presenting the bouquet." It is, indeed...
...Austin, as the festive miller, presented a pleasant picture of rustic jollity, and was very successful in his two songs. Mr. Twombley played and dressed the part of the miller's wife excellently, and his song in the prison scene was received with great applause. Mr. Bowen as the Princess found rather small scope for his talents, but gave the "Oxygen" song, "Go Away," with good effect, and was loudly applauded. Messrs. Urquhart and Sheafe, as the gold-spinning maid and her princely lover, acted and sang their parts to the satisfaction of the audience, Mr. Sheafe's serenade...
...author of the volume before us* has sheathed her sword in myrtle boughs, and presented to us the cause of co-education, hidden among as many hair-breadth 'scapes and stirring incidents as you will find in the last sensation novel, and adorned by the usual quotations from "The Princess." We sincerely hope that the heroine (cui nomen Wilhelmina, appropriately shortened to "Will") had no fewer adventures in her after life than in her college course; for she must have contracted a morbid desire for excitement during those four years. She saves a classmate (male, of course) from drowning, rides...
...Only a few lines from `The Princess...
...vision of this princess...