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ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENTGARDEN

... sweep of the boxes, and was hang with pink drapery and lace curtains, surmounted by a crown of huge dimensions anO a trophy of Arms, all richly gilt. It was lined throughout with white, abundantly decorated with flowers, and lighted bytwo rich glass candelabra ...

LITERATURE

... really national demonstration made by the Irish was in the reign of Elizabeth, when the great house of O'Neil began to mea- sure arms with its opponents in a war of independence. Hugh Earl of Tyrone was the leader under whom this strife of a single clan against ...

THE THEATRES

... violence, and we have seen violence and distraction introduced into this scene by actors of first-rate reputation: viit- ness, John IKemble and others; but there was an earnest- ness and an intensity which was felt by every spectator in the house. The last ...

Published: Sunday 12 July 1840
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3524 | Page: 3 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... October, 1781, and government at first showed some slight disposition to resist this armed body, by rejecting two or three motions brought forward on the subject by Mr. Grattan. But the ministry, under the Marquiss of Rockingham, coming in, messages were sent ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... from universal nature to the skies. (To be continused.) THE THEATRES. DRURY-LANE.-Shalcspere's historical tragedy of King John was restored to the stage on Monday night. Mr. Ma- cready has wisely devoted the vast resources of the theatre to representing ...

Published: Sunday 30 October 1842
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5666 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE MIRROR OF FASHION

... DAvV, Bart., N'V. T. 3hks mF4s&9.; tee Lord Bishop of CAkL5sLTE, TAYLOIR CoaBts, ?? Hs= , Esq, J. Fr --v,~kv£ kfbus Ham1 , JoHN POND, 3IW' .WOt5ON .D. 'IssOBtAS YOUNG, M.D. s' (irTB Na*CouieciL-The Earl of ABaRaEt*, MArTME.W ?? M.D ,-Jo'ss B£.r~ow, Bq ...

COURT AND FASHION

... attendant upon the death of John Shaw, aged 22 years, who died in the workhouse of the Eton Union, at Slough, Bucks, from the effects of in- juries he had received by a fall of earth, and who, it is alleged, was much neglected. John Peverall deposed that he ...

Published: Sunday 22 September 1844
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5240 | Page: 2 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THEATRES, ETS

... induces her to fly with him; she consents, and they depart. Ariste soon discovers their flight, and pursues them with his armed priests. Fernando, the defeated Spanish General (Mr. Johnson), with his troops, are bivouacked in a rocky pass, which serves ...

Published: Sunday 18 February 1849
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2619 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS

... Buckstone, Mrs. Fur- William, and Mr. John Reeve, have been playing in The Flowers of the Forest, I Child of the Regiment, &0o. to very excellent audiences during the past week. We believe that Mr. Grattan Dawson appears as Hamlet on Monday, and ...

Published: Sunday 10 October 1847
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3941 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... priestess, his ample brow enwreathed with a coronal of turnips and carrots, gracefully entwined; the measured tread, outstretched arm, and wrist depressed, are in the strictest accordance with the school of the Siddone and the Kemble. The thorough bass of his ...

Published: Sunday 12 December 1841
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3635 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

POETRY

... countless thousands. (Sn these plains the warriors of ?? Crusaedrs met in deadly .ontlict their Saracen foes, until at lengtd the arms of Saladin again retook Jerusalem. 'I'he Moslem now rules over desert tracts once the rcite of mighty empires. it is in these ...

COURT AND FASHION

... Viscount Curzon, eldest son of Earl Howe, and Miss: Sturt, daughter of Mr. and Lady Charlotte Sturt, and neice of the Earl of Cardigan, are, it is understood, arranged to take place in a few days. DEATH OF SIR CHARLES RowYEax, BART.-We regret to an- nounce ...

Published: Sunday 19 October 1845
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3337 | Page: 2 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture