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_Illustration_ _Artist_ LA CIGALE (_colored_) E. METZMACHER _Frontispiece_ FATES (THE) PAUL THUMANN 6 GABRIEL AND EVANGELINE FRANK DICKSEE 56 GANYMEDE F. KIRCHBACH 64 HAMLET AND THE GRAVEDIGGER P.A.J. DAGNAN-BOUVERET 140 HAMLET AND HIS FATHER’S GHOST E. VON HOFFTEN 142 HERODIA...
=Flute= (_The Magic_), a flute which has the powers of inspiring love. When given by the powers of darkness, the love it inspires is sensual love; but when bestowed by the power...
7. Act i. 1.Jessica cannot be called a sketch, or, if a sketch, she is dashed off in glowing colors from the rainbow palette of a Rubens. She has a rich tint of Orientalism shed over her.—M...
8. Act i. 5.Louis degraded this ethereal spirit into a “soiled dove,” and when she fled to a convent to quiet remorse, he fetched her out and took her to Versailles. Wholly unable to apprec...
4. canto i. the childe visits Portugal and Spain (1809); in canto ii.,=Haroun-al-Raschid=, caliph, of the Abbasside race, contemporary with Charlemagne, and, like him, a patron of literature and the arts. The court of this caliph was most splendid...
2. VOLUME II._Illustration_ _Artist_ LA CIGALE (_colored_) E. METZMACHER _Frontispiece_ FATES (THE) PAUL THUMANN 6 GABRIEL AND EVANGELINE FRANK DICKSEE 56 GANYMEDE F. KIRCHBACH 64 HAMLET AND...
5. Book I. opens with a pestilence in the Grecian camp, sent by the sun-godto avenge his priest, Chrysês. The case is this: Chrysês wished to ransom his daughter, whom Agamemnon, the Greek commander-in-chief, kept as a concubine, but Agamemnon refused...
6. act iv. sc. 2 (1591).=Jack Hamlin=. Professional gambler and lady-killer, has an engagement to elope with the wife of Brown, of Calaveras. Brown, ignorant of the friend’s treachery, confides to him...
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