Word: elizabethan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elizabethan Poetical Miscellanies," Professor Rollins, Sever...
...kingdom for a lone horse. As a matter of fact, he lest his kingdom anyway, and Henry Richmond, who picked up the crown from a thorn bush and became Henry VII of England was the man who started Britain on the road to the glory and success of the Elizabethan...
...Jonson was another Elizabethan who ate at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, as it was then called. Once a dispute arose as to who could most quickly make the best couplet. Poet Joshua Sylvester took up the challenge and penned...
...Grandgent '83 of the University has written "From Latin to Italian," styled a guide book for students of Romance philology. "Tottel's Miscellany" is the title of a book written by Professor H. E. Rollins of the Department of English. This is a reprint of a prominent Elizabethan anthology, and will be followed later by a volume of critical notes. A collection of typical Puritan verse entitled "Handkerchiefs from Paul," by Assistant Professor K. B. Murdock '16 will be published in November...
...indoor alleys by barflies and roustabouts; the other called "Bowls" or "Bowling-on-the-Green," a handsome recreation for gentlemen, a game which in tempo compares with other present-day exercises, as the courante compares to the Charleston. It is played now by members of the Elizabethan Club at Yale University, and by the members of many an old, austere and gentle club, who are too antique for the frantic antics of the pastimes practiced by younger popinjays. No longer foppish, no longer clothed in silk or jerkins, they still narrow their eyes to an Eastern slant, still gabble noisily...