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COVENT GARDEN THEATRE

... (N) VENT GARJDEN 71IIMATEIt, Wi' have tnoil i Antbotie-a diistingu) ltbod ond ol n bsnoourc ill'.Tl- -t hI I list O.0 Fr SIICL'eF'iclilItt ilitil' po thait Cfi ilT' '''ii, Wi 'Iiri1 I O I 1F n1 4Cli i.hit It' FF 0' g.TOrd IIll- fvlb e ?? ~~in ':iii r, tn'. joiviig oirjial orit-rs '3l' 1)1.FF tleA- O1 KNFMiW1.51, TAT,'OURD)1, iBULVEiF, I!~ii~nd HUNT-, to ,Ly 'ilijlltg A sv.ia ii 5, like the, ...

FACTS AND SCRAPS

... FACTS- AN SCPAFS. LINES ON TIHE DEATH OF JOHN SKELL ags WRO WAS KILLED IN FRONT OF THE WESt- to GATE INN, AT NEWPORT. of i 0 gather around yourave fallen chief, Cio Profound be your sorrow, and deep be your grief; i hei let the 'requiem be sung, let the blood-furrow'd plain I pu BAe-echo the dirge of our brave comrade slain! i La 'The mighty are faIl'at! the bravest andabest I Have gone where ...

THE BEST OF WIVES

... A man bad once a vicious wife (A most uncam~non tbingin life); His days and nights were spent in strife Unceasing. Her tongue went glibly all day long, Sweet contradiction still her song, And all the poor man did was wrong, And ill done. A truce witboutdoors or within, From speeches long as tradesmen spin, Or rest from her eternal din, H~e found not. He every soothing art display'd; Tried of ...

THE THEATRES

... COVENT GARDEN. We have to add another-a distinguished and an r honoured name-to the list of our successful dramatic poets,that of LaIme HUNT.-His new play the Legend I d'Florence, was played for the first time here on Fri- day evening, and met with complete success from a crowded house. The success of the drama, which is in five acts was quite decisive. from first to last it was listened to ...

THEATRICAL EXAMINER

... THE eEW PLAY, BY LEIGH HUNT. The production of a new play, by Leigh Hunt, is an event in theatrical annals that will interest every one. We will not enter into the peculiar circum- stances which give it inexpressible interest to us. One incident connected with it will claim a sure and general sympathy. We mean the brave and gallant effort it implied, to redeem the worldly failure of a life, ...

LITERATURE

... LI TERATURlE. I `p the Rhine, By TilOMAS iws oot. ILoridon. 8vo. A. H. Baily mnid Co. Tlhis very clever asd entcrtairing work is written upon the piasi of ' Hlumphrey Clinker, being an epistolary account of the continental tour of a falily of strongly sisal hed characters, sorec of whom bear a rcsemblancc to those introduced in thc parent wvork. There is in cach a hypoclhondriacal old ...

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LATE DINNER TO DAN

... SOMB ACCOUNT OF THE LATE DINNER TO DAN. From tongue to tongue the rumour flew; All ask'd, aghast, ii't true? is't true I' But none knew whether 'tens fact or fable And still th' unholy rumour ran, From Tory woman to Tory man, Though none to comie at the truth was abi,- Till, lo, at last, tihe fact caile out, The horrible fact, beynad all doubt, That Dau laid dined at the Vice.robot table; ...

THE ODD FELLOW'S RECITER

... As we are ,'edireissof making this an extensive cellectina l the best .nic and Tragic Recitations ir the English. language, we invite our friends t9 transmit such as they may deem worthy of insertion.] TITHE IN KIND, OR, THE SOW'S REVENGF. Not far from London liv'd a boor, Who fed three dozen hogs, or more; Alike remote from care and strife, lie crack'd his joke, and lov'd his wife. Aladge, ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... ?? pUBLIC -a-11 ?? Y i - 1?1 'A, ?? Y~Ij\(lllt lION .tid SALh 41 utho WORKS it g oviN' ailt, frott '1r14 itl flic ilorlifiit~ utitill 1Aii~t.I. CiatlU61oo,1 Ii. W.iM. IARNARiD, Keeert. ?? Riotis OPEN El) inl CoMNsit'pti Oif 010 hil 4..0 i 1i'ti Art wtll Sictieno, 00l0u40 w41fi4h is ?? eit Ma4.utiertte dto Parirtii, it urii~oii ti or s'rie ti Forty-tlirve t'mmilewo i Sitpi,, ii ~ i i- ...

LIVES OF THE BRITISH POETS

... BY W. H. FORMtAN-. RICHARD CORBET. Richard Corbet, Bishop of Norwich, and son Mr. Vincent Corbel, was born at Ewell, in SurreN towards the close of the sixteenth century, in thp reign of Queen Elizabeth. He imbibed his firs: lessons in grammar at Westminster School; all, from thence Was sent to Oxford in the year lo.w where he was admitted a student of Christchurcl- Ill 1605, lie took the ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... FL'PilB(l . i .f .8'i (s . MATCHLESS WORK of' ART, in a series of | lorty-thre( belautitol M o(4et of Slhips nnII I o lis &e,, of itII riltOs, ro eluborately filisihed, that tie ?? ?? IS required to examtiae Ilie ItrteellaIi Ot ?? ?? LCTIOTY P, or, the procuss of uliakio Coia, and lniduti Dail l at a Q-oarter belore 'IXhriu- a U e }'OLl'Ttf'ECHNirC INSTITI TIONuO19, Rere-it-streit. Tile ...

THE SINCERE CHRISTIAN

... [From ' The Aational.'] 'Here lieth the Body of SIR FRANCIS DIGBY, BART., Of Digby Hall, in this Parish; who departed this life in cheerful hope of a glorious Resurrection throug- the merits of Christ on the 1sth of April, 1833. He was a man of mest gentlemanly mauners and vast attainments, A loving Husband, AU affectionate Father,. A faitllfal Friend, A considerate Landlord, And, to sum up ...