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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 

LITERATURE

... LHTERATFlRE. ADVIcE TO THE DEAF; OR, TiE PRESENT STATE or AURAL SUlRGERY.-BY JOHN HARmISON CURTIS, EsQ.. Surgeon to the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of tile Ear. London: Jo50z Churchill, Princes-streCt, Soho-Among the various charitable institutions ...

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 

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... of Mrs. Grattan), sustaining the principal charac- ters. Mr. J. Ryan, the stsge-manager~ has proved himself ant excellent caterer for public amuse-ments. At the Royal Amphitheatre, in addition to the attraction- of such productions as King John, ' Damon ...

Published: Sunday 14 September 1845
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4670 | 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 ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... to ling this about, but they chmnrn gravely and shyly to their sisters, till I hit upon making certain long- legged, stiff-armed figures, which I cat out of card-, medi- ators between us. At sight of these the little ones began as it were to thaw, and ...

VARIETIES

... grant. Mr. D'Israeli opposes it; Lord John Man nors supports it. The Duke of Newcastle has addressed a very lachrymose epistle to tihe people of England against the proposed May- nooth grant, The celebrated Grattan was indefatigably industrious, He was ...

THE MAIL AND THE THEATRE.—When we last week hinted at the cause of the enmity of the Mail to the

... young cS the man, named Jones, prom some part of Wales-we be- M ited lieve Cardigan, and we understood, whether correctly or a. maet not, that his father is a banker at Cardigan ; however, be o this as it may, it appears that he is uncommonly clever of ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... or does the engagement of Duprez and Madame Garcia tend to the nationality of the theatre l As far as we can see, the two Johns-Cooper and Harley-are the only representatives of the national British Dramatic interests at Drury-lane under the present ...

Published: Sunday 20 April 1845
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 7816 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS

... much aPtalatta. lite has appeared in i Flar, eth, 1 Glenicue, 1The Woander, Virgitius1 &r. Mistes 21. 13aver pe; 'armed in. Loane Ci at Lover, anal - daL&. ,NTTtNt ?? ii-1 he tlire PlonIL. - 'I 1l, hrifiormtt oes tat the elc 'ii iv C (aeas ...

Published: Sunday 05 August 1849
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3312 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Poets' Corner

... made a motion to his nephew to approach him, and quietly stretched forth his arms, as if to embrace him; when he found him near enough, he raised hisoself, and putting one arm round his neck, seized a knife with the other, which lie pitilessly phinged ...

VARIETIES

... mirably. One of these persons was an Invalid who in the wars of the Empire lost both arms, retaining only the mere stumps. With the aid of two of these artiflcial arms, he was able to perform many of the functions which had hitherto been performed for ...