Word: merchant
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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GLOBE THEATRE. - This theatre was reopened last Monday with Mr. Bandmann in "Narcisse." To-night " Hamlet" will be given; to-morrow afternoon, "Camille"; and to-morrow evening, "The Merchant of Venice." Next Monday, Auber's Opera, "The Crown Diamonds" will be produced and the week after "The Black Crook," under the direction of the Kiralfy brothers...
From here you will go, with your deeds upon your head, if you find it convenient to carry them in a low-crowned hat (don't waste your beaver on the unappreciative ???, wait until you are surrounded by Sophomores), to the gentleman who behaved unkindly to the Merchant of Venice (S-y-k the B-r-ir; he is a Wandering Jew, and now lives in Wadsworth). If he attempts to throw any difficulties in your way, mere technicalities, two courses are open to you. Either step back, bare your manly breast, and say, in your very best manner...
...cannot reach him, observes that the rent of his old college room has been trebled, and tells his boys that they must go to some cheap college in the country, - if indeed he is able to send them to any. Stronger cases than this might be easily adduced. The merchant who is struggling to avoid bankruptcy, the holder of real estate whose value has sunk below the mortgage, cannot enter the academic confessional and make known their griefs. The adjective poor as applied to those who seek the higher education has only a relative significance, - they are not generally...
...merchant prince and a millionnaire...
...singing showed that the members had bestowed considerable practice on the pieces and that there are several good voices in the Society. The entertainment concluded with "Pipkins's Rustic Retreat," in which Mr. Sargent had ample opportunity to do himself justice. As "Mr. Brittle Pipkins," the retired crockery merchant, he was all that could be desired of anybody, and several times during the play his acting was warmly applauded. As "Salvator Rosa Robinson" Mr. Lyon was excellent, and ably supported Mr. Sargent's impersonation of Pipkins. When telling the story of the mysterious murder, Mr. Lyon's oratorical powers were...