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... To give, for love of auld lang syne, The memory of Barns. While courage fires the Briton's soul, While freedons nerves his arm; While country's love his hopes controul, Friendshigs his bosom warm: While woitb and wit shall lustre shed, O'er the soul that ...

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... Hood attempted to revive the old laws against the absentees; and in 1783, proposition for ditto by Mr. Grattan; both failed. *- In 1797, Sir John Vandelear proposed. in the Irish House of Commons, to raise an annual revenue of £240,000 by a tax on the ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... Bedford, and the jocutid manner, of pretty and plump Mrs. Grattan, secured it a decided success. The theatre was densely crowded in every part. I cinequericeo oftbe iner disposition of Nrs. Grattan arnd Mr. Oxb~erry, .tbei rep ,i~tibii' ofi~ l~e' Sii of ...

Published: Sunday 05 November 1843
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 7394 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... portunely present themselves, and, at one fell swoop, destroy all hope of the contemplated lark. Mr. Walter Lacy, and Mrs. Grattan, acted with infinite spirit, and essayed loyally and vigorously in the author's cause; the quaintness of dress, and absurdity ...

Published: Sunday 26 November 1843
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6297 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Literature

... former the ever-onsusing ones of the per stately John Philip Ksemble, and Isis no less stately sister, Mrs. fliddons : Pon5 KRUELSt AND SIDifONS. iof The late facetious Jack Bannister used to relate of John ity. Phailip, that, walking Wvith hint once in ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... being filled with police.officers,. The director and his wife were both found suffocated in their bed, locked in each other's arms. The most gloomy conjectures were-circulated among the crowd. Theemnploydarrested, whose ?? Guyot, had, it is affirmed, confessed ...

Published: Sunday 17 December 1843
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4573 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... Senior Wrangler to SI. John's CLI College. her~ Teae following have beeon elected afteirnooni preachers at 500l Great Saint Mary :_January, 1844, the Rev. R. Blaholor~k. inl catherine Ball; Februrory, the !tev. IV. Selwyn, St. Johns's anu Collego ; Marchi ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... dastardly deed being adduced, he was discharged. Tlte wounded man made his appearance 'ith his arm in a sling. Two such ?? actions in one isight miake one blush for John Bull. There was such an awful noise in the house prior to the Christ. mas piece, that ADELMOItN ...

Published: Sunday 31 December 1843
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 11841 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE AND ART

... COLLEGIANS. First performed at the Batchelor's Ball, Cambridge, 1844. Composed and arranged for the Pianoforte. by JOHN WEIPPERT. (John Weippert)>.Tbis set possesses infinite variety, one of the great desiderata in quadrille writ. ing. The subiects are ...

Published: Sunday 03 March 1844
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3166 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... about on that memorable hill, for he knew not how long, ?? on the backs and shoulders, faces and arms of the people?' And there, in the company of Mr Henry Grattan, 'tri- umphant and squeezed, compressed and fettered,' did he not breathe for a time that ' ...

UNANSWERABLE QUERIES

... they may one day become your superiors. A BLIND WmnEuLwiLGeT.-Fersons visiting Cheddar Cliffs must not forget to enquire for John Cooper's cot- tage, where they will be highly amused. This ex- traordinary man has been quite blind for forty years, doring ...

LITERATURE

... Character, although but one of the four relates to that subject, and the tract on Popular Ignorance, have made the name of John Foster a familiar word wherever the English language is spoken. It would be difficult to mention any other comlpositions on ...