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a schillek-fest: 43
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V.—A SCHILLER-FEST.
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restrain women below patrician rank from walking abroad in shoes embroidered with pearls and precious stoneswe may be certain
that a fashion which there acquired legal notoriety , would not be neglected in the provinces . Composed of fine purple leather , as
the foundation , they were often embellished with gold and cunning needle-workso that as a memento of their skill and of their riches ,
, shoes were often buried with their possessors . The British Museum contains several curious specimens found in barrows .
Subsequent , to the time of Boadicea , we have for the space of four centuries no certain history of Britain . Beyond slight notices
_3 f _encoiinters with the northern tribes , the Roman annals are _silent . It is a singularity almost beyond parellel for a country in
alliance with the most polished nation of the world , to be thus _absolutely _withmit an historian . Though unworthy of entire
crelence , we shall find occasion to refer to the wild legends and fabled stories of this unlettered age , in connection with our next chapter ,
xeating of the position held by women , prior to and during the _establishment of the Saxons in Britain .
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A Schillek-Fest: 43
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V.—A Schiller-Fest.
V . —A _SCHILLER-FEST .
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debuthis drama of " er" being on day in the _, theatre . Tradition reports that when the young and unknown author
himman uncommonl self ager read seems his y ill play to as have to to gain the had actors very sufficient small for the discrimination encouragement first time , not he , thoug read to rej h e it ct the so it
altogether . the Thoug iece h was not far a failure from , a it success is probable at first that for even Schiller on seems representation to have
had p a weary struggle for subsistence in , the very town which eighty years after resolved to erect a princely statue to his memory , in the
centre of the Theater-Platz . the The 10 th day of fixed November for the inauguration 1862 the 103 of rd the anniversary statue was of Monday the day ,
on which Schiller first saw , the li , ght . would and Popular the be exhibition difficult enthusiasm perhaps of feeling made to the witness was day so a one purel fairer of y festivit specimen spontaneous y far of and , national that wide it ,
rejoicing . For weeks before , the ceremony was discussed , and
preliminaries parations , both arranged public and and criti pri cised vate , and were altered going ; for forward weeks in , pr a e ll
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 2, 1863, page 43, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02031863/page/43/
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