This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...1868 omitted. Plain living and high thinking, frugality and sobriety, were the order of the night. During this period we did much good work; we read, if I remember aright, All's Well, in the Spring of 1867, and in the Winter of 1867-68, Macbeth. Also, either during this year or during the former period for ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...1868 omitted. Plain living and high thinking, frugality and sobriety, were the order of the night. During this period we did much good work; we read, if I remember aright, All's Well, in the Spring of 1867, and in the Winter of 1867-68, Macbeth. Also, either during this year or during the former period for which the records are lacking, we read Henry V. and Love's Labor Lost. I cannot be sure as to the succession of these readings. But certain it is that during this period, between the time when we finished the Tempest in October, 1865, and when we began King Lear, in October, 1868, we read Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Merchant of Venice, Midsummer Night's Dream, Love's Labor Lost, and Henry V. And there are no minutes extant concerning these readings except a few defective and incomplete notes as to Romeo and Juliet. The writer may be pardoned for recording his memory that the Society was disappointed in finding less food for thought or discussion in Midsummer Night's Dream than we hoped, and that, on the other hand, Love's Labor Lost turned out much better than we had anticipated, the references to Lyly and the Euphuists, &c, opening quite a wide field for criticism and illustration. But good though the work was, the spirit somehow was lacking, and when we entered the old, dark corridors to go to the rather dimly-lighted lecture room, and after two or three hours' work went down the old, dark entry again to go out into the night, it seemed too much like going to school again to be genial or pleasant; and some of us, then younger members, feeling our virtue was not adequate for another such year, formed a conspiracy for the restoration of the old order of things, which proved successful, the Dean himself coming over to our views and deserting...
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