Refine Search

II-- A SNOW- WOMAN

... to marry a poor soldier and be Gertrude. Shabby ever after. Never, Bob. {Firmly) Sir Robert {releasing her and staggering back against the sun-dial). Never Don't you love me after all Gertrude. After all and beyond all. But our lives, if I married you ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1106 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

THE LIFE OF THACKERAY

... Thackeray who was the editor of a paper in which his fortune was invested and lost when the paper failed. It forgets the man who married for love and found his happiness clouded over by the ill-health of the wife he worshipped and the death of the child he adored ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 981 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: ... AT THE GARRICK THEATRE

... closely, hut there is some novelty in the manner in which it is filled out. The father of the princess whom the hero ultimately marries is, like all monarohs of extravaganza, impecunious, but King Grabbus is so poor that, accompanied by his daughter, his ohamher- ...

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: JACK AND THE BEANSTALK AT DRURY LANE THEATRE

... has a business-like maid-servant, Alarjorie, who has been jilted by the frivolous Prince Racket, but intends nevertheless to marry him. In this design she has the good wishes of the heroine, Princess Pretty I., who, although betrothed to Racket, cares nothing ...

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: THE MYSTICAL MISS

... persuaded to allow his daughter first to present herself as the apparition in the show of Boris's future wife, and afterwards to marry him in the name of a particular princess recently deceased. Boris, innocent of offence, and Anna, consciously guilty, are denounced ...

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: THE MAN OF FORTY

... courtship to which this friendship is dangerously allied. It is quite understood, it should bo explained, that they are to b married at once, if it can be proved that the fugitive husband is no more and that, I take it, the author considers a further jus ...

DRAMA OF THE WEEK

... in Paris. Away flew Zaza to confront her rival. She gained admission to her lover's house, and she discovered that ho was married. Filled with jealous fury and eager for vengeance, she was encountered by a little child. The presence of that child softened ...

A LITERARY LETTER

... one Ann Richardson, the widow of a baronet, Sir Robert Austen. Some years after her friendship with Cowper had ceased she married a M. de Tardiff, and she died in Paris two years after Cowper in 1802. Her friendship with Romney is also an interest ing ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1711 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER

... unsympathetically, and harshly, as in The Farringdons. Even where a man says 1 will not marry a woman who believes in the old faith, and she replies, I will not marry a man who does not a perfectly legitimate situation for ephemeral fiction that now well-nigh ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1881 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: AN AMERICAN BEAUTY

... never have known. The plot, what there is of one, shows the heiress, whose ambition, but not her heart, is engaged, about to marry an elderly German Prince for his title. The Prince has a Baron attendant, obedient as a valet, and with the methods of Prince ...

Music: OPERATIC MATTERS

... rare flowers, and flatters himself, quite without warrant, that his title is a profound secret from everybody. He might have married the dashing heroine at the end of the first act, had it not been for the fact that the authors desired to prolong their piece ...

Published: Saturday 05 May 1900
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 829 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review