Word: lovering
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...done more to save to us the old songs and ballads of England and Scotland from oblivion than any other man. He was a great Shakespearian scholar, and in 1848 published a work entitle "Four Old Plays," containing a collection of old English plays. He was also a great lover of Chaucer and Spenser, and in 1858 edited an edition of the latter's poems...
Professor Child always led a true scholar's life of quiet and tranquillity. He was a great lover of nature and cultivated flowers with his own hands. His rose garden, which is known for miles around, contains the greatest collection of roses to be found in this vicinity...
...founded on Sir Walter Scott's novel "The Bride of Lammermoor," and the scene is laid in Scotland during the seventeenth century. The heroine, Lucy Ashton, is beset by evil throughout the opera, and finally murders her husband and dies. The final scene is the death of her lover, who stabs himself...
Complications naturally ensue. Tatters, the King, takes advantage of his newly acquired character of guardian to make violent love to Mirabelle, in spite of his promise to further Robbie's suit in that direction. Robbie, between whom and the Princess there has long been a lover's understanding, can at last no longer endure concealment. Though forbidden to speak to the Princess, he serenades her. She in joy recognizes his voice, and together they agree to elope; but the question of money confronts them. Mirabelle remembers that she has some jewels locked up with her crown in the Bishop...
...next week, Sir Julius Benedict's "The Lily of Killarney." This is a musical version of the drama, "The Colleen Bawn," whose thrilling story is adapted admirably to lyrical expression. The heiress, Ann Chute, has a rival in Eily O'Connor, the Colleen Bawn. Myles na Coppaleen, the peasant lover of Eily, is devoted to her although knowing her to be the wife of another, Hardress Cregan. The latter would desert her and wed Ann Chute in order to raise the mortgage on his estate. The only solution of his difficulty is to get the Colleen Bawn...