Word: arthuritis
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...stories of Arthur and his Court have remained to the present day, not exploded, as many similar myths have been, but forming a prominent group of legends, containing not a little truth, and as marked in the history of Britain as any of the tales of ancient Rome. The subject must always be wrapped in considerable obscurity, but, according to the best authorities, Arthur lived about 500 A. D. His exploits, and the fabulous tales arising from them, were sung in French romances, by English poets, and related by historians of the Middle Ages...
...first treats entirely of Arthur, relating his birth, his subjection of Britain, the war with Rome, and his death in the last battle with the traitor, Sir Modred. This work was afterwards versified, and was much amplified and adorned. Sir Thomas Malory devotes most of his book to Merlin, Lancelot, the Sangreal, and Guinevere. The two histories coincide only in regard to the birth of Arthur, the Roman Expedition, and the final battle; the first is almost entirely the life of Arthur alone, and in the second Lancelot is the chief figure, and more prominence is given to other knights...
...Graduates Performance, Saturday evening, March 4, 1876 at Beethoven Hall, Arthur Sullivan's operatta of "Cox and Box" will be given by former members of the H. P. C., for the benefit of the N. E. Hospital for Women and Children. In connection with this also will be given the monologue "The Elixir of Youth." Ticket; for sale at box office on and after Friday, March 3. General admission, 75 cents...
...WALTON GREEN, (Harvard.)ARTHUR B. ELLIS,E. J. MCKNIGHT, (Yale).WM. ARNOLD,CONCESSIONARY RULES...
...ARTHUR LEWIS GOODRICH...