Selected Poetry

... *Cftttrl? Vottrp. The following lines are translated from a German poem, by M. de Redlitz, written raany years back. The author had then little reason to expect so prosaic a fuifilment of his poetical dream, as the arrival of La Belle Porate, at Cheibourgh with the remaius of Napoleon. THE SPECTRE SHIP. The sound is fltting before the gale, No stars in the dark heavens play, High over the ...

The Church

... Ze Qitlvdj. NOBLE EXAMPLE TO PATRONS OF CHURCH IN CUMB E NCI ES. Few things have given us more pleasure, for some time past, than a brief and simple notice which appeared in the London Gazette of Friday last. It was to the following effect:- Notice is hereby given, that application is intended to be mare to parliament, in the next session, for leave to bring in a bill for the division of ...

Poetry

... ZVI 0 et rp - THE FLOWERS. L[Y w. If. PRIDFAUX ] Tiun owrb that deck this earth of oura, lhowm eloquent are they! ?? to the human heart they snlijiagly convey i And jt how pgrent :tle we to plsso their oire mninitions ily, Aldlitgazo %with listleisness of heart and inadvertent eye: To Childhoo, arce tiley tlot as hsopes Whlieh faoscinate the mind, And. Ieads1 thc yanolg hesrt gaily on1, with ...

Poetry

... jDortrv- OLD ENGLAND.-By MARnY HOvITT. OMD England I thou ibast greea and pastoral hills Fanit'd by delicious gales, And living voices of harmonious rillis Sound inL tby sylvas vales. Ujnder tile shadow of primeval trees, 'Mid whispering of green leaves, Stand cheertul groups of whito-wall'd cottages, Flowerrniantled to the eaves, And thou hast lovinig hearts, both h;ig and low, And homes ...

THE JOURNEY TO EMMAUS

... And behold, twoof them vent that .same daeytoa village called Emnmaus.-SI Luke, chap. 24. [ ltlAiiNA O A SERtdON PhgACHIED AT Sr. WEAIDUrOUI'S C[iAni URCl, SVNDAT RYVCENIF, I-F. 16.] The rocky path to Emmaus, Along the steep ascent, Was chosen by two faithful friends, Who sorrowed as they went: Their downcast looks, 'their weary steps, The sadness of each brow, Told that their brightest ...

REMARKABLE NEW TREES

... [fib nninereis; llrticultuxd1 S6cietiei which exist in our coonn having very extensively diffused a taste for Botany, the following ingenious morcean, from the CALCurTA rNG- usuI5wAx, addmssed1 to Dr. Spry, brother of Mr. Spry, sur- geon, of Tirro, will afford to the admirers of that interesting acience considerable amunoement: TO tR. SPRY, s5CRETARY, HSORTIcULTURAL SOCaTY. My dear Spry ...

MANNERS AND AMUSEMENTS

... COURT AND FASHION. The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and his Serene Higb- ness Prince Ernest of Saxe Coburg Gotha, with the ladies and gentlemen of the household, attended divine service on Sun- day morning in Buckingham Palace. The Queen held a Court on Tuesday afternoon at Bucking- ham Palace, for the receition of the congratulatory add ...

Published: Sunday 23 February 1840
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2842 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

COURT AND FASHION

... I - - 0 SUNDAYT.-Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and suite, and Prince Leiningen, attended divine service in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Duchess of Kent was also present. Her Ma- jesty, Prince Albert, and Prince Leiningen, took an airing in the Parks in the afternoon in an open carriage-and-four. MonDAY.-Her Majesty held a Privy Council at BucLing- ham Palace for the purpose of considering ...

Published: Sunday 21 June 1840
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4632 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE THEATRES

... ITALIAN OreRA.-On Tuesday evening Mile. Emelina Toso made her first appearance in England in the character of Norma. To come after Pasta, in such a character as this is like coming after our own Siddons in Lady Macbeth-quite as difficult and almost as impossible to prove satisfactory to those to whom every note of this delightful opera recalls the dignity-the tone and that fulness of feeling ...

Published: Sunday 12 April 1840
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1627 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE AND ART

... BENTEzY'S MISCELLANY.-We pursue our extracts from the facetious pages of Bentley for the present month, and certainly after reading over our extracts, no one who opened them on the first oftbe month witha hope of entertainment, will have to cons- plain of being made an April fool. However, proof is better than assertion, so we dive at once into the fun of Peter Pop- 3C M. l{HI, a young ...

Published: Sunday 12 April 1840
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6946 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE AND ART

... | -4--I THE STAGE, BOTH BEFORE AND BEHIND THE CURTAIN; FROM OBSERVATIONS TAKEN, ON THE SPOT. By ALFRED BUNN. (Bentley.) This long-promised book of Mlr: Bunn's has at length made its appearance, and a most extraordfnary book it is, displaying some of the most extraordinary details of dramatic life that lsdve ever been given to the public, and better calculated to open the eyes of the public to ...

Published: Sunday 05 July 1840
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 8120 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

EXHIBITION OF THE SCOTTISH ACADEMY

... or THE SCOTTISH A-A1)F.X,1' F(URiTil NOTICE. Whiti Icoilollc's most poletlecal pictures this year Tile )Jr ., _roiiltDcers Startled, and I 52, well are d Se,,appoac edTwilight. The first s n lclt we have ever seen. The shli clct flled by a pool of wvater, the an i coreo oe myiighty stream, in which, innit v icaoved by a rock, the moon- b00ae~ erd of deer Icave been star- ritot - ...