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A GLANCE AT THE THEATRICAL

... occu- pied, aowever, made it late before he came to the end of his task, and he will, doubt- less, speak faster, or be more brief, when he next speaks in public. He hesitated but once, but, after a reference to his memoranda, he recovered himself; and ...

Published: Sunday 27 May 1849
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1081 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MISS RUSSELL'S HOBBY

... y, and who speaks with idiomatic and easy fluency when seated in a chair, cannot rise from that chair to address the very audience he has just been speaking to but forthwith his mental attitude is altered; he thinks commonplaces and speaks platitudes: ...

THE SHAKSPERIAN GALLERY

... .arch. By heavib1 a ?? tite speakI MARcLLcs.-It is offendedi BlnnNAnDo.-See! it stalks away. HonATro.-Stay; speak, speak; 1 charge thee, speak I Aia.-'Tia gone, and will iiat ansdver. BER.-1-bw now, Hoiatio i yoU tiaefhibli nhd lobb pale; Is not this ...

Present State of the Drama

... hissed down. (Laughter and cheers.) Bad actors must be condemned. (Cheers.) Be wished he could speak better, but his excuse must be that hisforte was to speak the words of others. lie thanked them sincerely for the honour of conneoting his name with the ...

SCHOOL OF DRAMATIC ART

... art of speaking well, and might be subdivided into conviction, per- seasion, style, and delivery. It was with the last of these sub- divisions, delivery or elocution, that they had to deal. Elocution he defined as the art of reading and speaking distinctly ...

Published: Saturday 14 October 1882
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 658 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

ROMEO AND JULIET, WITH SOME NEW READINGS

... that was so full othis ropery t Romeo (TInpattira Looker-on): A gentleman, nulrs, that loven to hear timselr talk; and will speak more in a Minute than he aj1 stand to St a ?? and Juiet, Aot 2, Setn) 4.] (Time of Action-Friday, December 5) AGRICULTURIST ...

IN THE ALSATIAN MOUNTAINS

... and Alsace are concerned. But why make the fact patent in print? The tone of the work, too, is very disagreeable. Mrs. Lee speaks of her dislike for ' thc conceited, domineering Teutons, of the huddled-up Belgians, a ' loose and shambling maidservant ...

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

... than a trifle. too sentimental over him. In the great biography, when Golds~mith speaks you have no doubt wvhose the voice is but in Mr. Moore's -story Goldsumitlh speaks by deputy-a very clever deputy, but only a deputy after all, and every now and again ...

MR. ROSS NEIL'S DRAMAS

... circumstances fitted to call forth strong passion they speak passionately, and many lines of eloquence and of poetical feeling will be found in these plays. The dragntis personce speak poetically, but they speak also consistently with their position; and it is ...

Poetry of To-Day

... and Other Poems (Kegan Paul). In his Any Dreimer to His Dream he seems to give the keynote to his own verse, for he speaks not only of his love for nature, but also of the gentle melancholy with which much of his poetry is informed. I feel the beauty ...

Published: Saturday 18 November 1893
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 446 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

DRAMA

... commcrcial schemes in which he may have personal interest, is, at all events in Mr. Florence's hands, an amusing personage ; not speak of other littlo peculiarities indicative both of defective education and of natural humour, which last night contributed in ...

THE OLD SCHOOL LIST

... are all in the old School List. There's a grave grey lawyer in King's Bench-walk, Whose clients are passing few: He seldom speaks: in those lonely weeks What on earth can he find to do? Well-he stroked the eight-what a splendid fate! And the Newczvestle ...