Word: scottish
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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ENGLISH 27.- Students who wish to take the course in the English and Scottish Ballads will meet the instructor at 11.30 a. m., on Friday, Oct. 8, at 6 Harvard Hall...
...courses are, English 17 and 9, on English Literature in relation to Italian and Spanish Literature of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, heretofore given by Mr. Fletcher; and Professor Child's well-known course on the English and Scottish Ballads...
...Professor Child published his first edition of "English and Scottish Ballads," the greatest work of that description that had appeared up to that time; but afterwards he edited a new edition entitled "English and Scottish Popular Ballads," and this work has gained worldwide renown for its author. Its extent cannot be comprehended until a person understands that this collection was compiled directly from the old folk lore of every nation of Europe, and required not only a great genins but many years of careful search and study...
...their birth, ancestry, and early life. Emerson, the well-bern and liberally-trained, descendant of a long line of New England ministers, belonged definitely to the class of gentle-folk. Carlyle, although he was a graduate of Edinburgh University, and became the chief English man of letters, was a Scottish peasant by birth, and remained in some ways a peasant to the last. Emerson's life, by temperament and by circumstances, was one of almost unbroken peace and calm. Carlyle's experience was full of storm and trouble...
...seats in Sever 11 were again taken on the occasion of Mr. Copeland's lecture last evening on Stevenson, Mr. Barrie, Mr. Crocket, and "Ian Maclaren." The lecture began with a brief comparison of the contemporary Scottish renaissance, with past triumphs,- much greater past triumphs,- of the northern kingdom over the English public...