Poetry

... I 1poetrtv. THE OTHER DAY. Upon the meadows spread below, Full softly fall the flakes of Enow, Yet choke they up the way That lately wound along the scene, 'Mid fields of gold and swards of green, Ay, but the other day. The sun bath shrunk into the soutb, And every bird hath shut its mouth, And broken off its lay; And yet with sultry beams the air, And yet with songs the woodlands fair, Were ...

Varieties

... varietiesz. -I Want of sense makes people obstinate, while principle makes thenm firm, since that which would be obsti- nacy in a wrong cause becomes firmness in a right one. To discriminate betaweca the two is often difficult. It is a fair step towards happiness aad virtue to delight in ithe company and conversation of good men, and where these cannot be hadl it is better to Ikeep no company ...

Poetry

... THE ANSWER OF SPRING. I come, I come I I heard the call Of earth, on every side; I saw the tears which the sky lot fall, And I'd fain those tears were dried I've struggled, and burst from the icy bond Which winter had o'er me cast; 1 hear sweet greetings, all loud and fond, And I come o'er the world at last I I smile, and the sunbeam broke forth, to shed A brighter and warmer ray; I smile, and ...

POETRY

... PBETRY. TIE DEATH OF THO4MAS CAMPBELL.t: Strike loud the notes of woe! Bow down each drooping head! The patriot's pride, the poet's glow The zentle heart to friend and foe, Cold in the narrow tomb lie low, The 'Barad of Hope is dead. Weep, Poland, weep! ah no'er Will worthier tear-drops faill The dauntless mind to do and dare,: The soul that swelled at thy despair, The champion's, patron's, ...

THE THEATRE

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THE THEATRES

... IF- HAYMARRET.-This theatre has given the public another Version of the far-femed curtain lectures, and although we may Bay with truth that the Haymarket one yields in nothing to its compeers, and have every wish to do justice to the talented representatives of domestic harmony, yet here our laudatory office ends, for, however we may be inclined to laugh at the wit of Douglas Jerroll in the ...

Published: Sunday 10 August 1845
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 397 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... MISCELLANEOUS POErs. By ELIZABETHI PIsDOCKE RO- sFiLrs. (Darton and Clarlk.)-It is seldom, in these matter- of fact days, that any one is bold enough to publish a volume of poems. This is not a poetical age, nor do we believe that a nes Shalispere or Milton could make it so. Sir W. Scott and Byron, for a time, revived a love of poetry, which was a rage while it lasted ; but it was extinguished ...

Published: Sunday 24 August 1845
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1551 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

TRAGIC LYRICS

... The great master of fun and metaphysics, Puneh, who can of a verity read sermons in stones, and extract a smile from the flegellations of his scnurg, recently tried his hand at the following adaptations ol ' Old Saws to Modern anstances. What. though the American Talms, the Forrester, not of Bow-street, but of Broad-srreet, be occupied with his new readings of Shakspere, why should the ...

Published: Sunday 23 February 1845
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 402 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

COURT AN FASHION

... - A COQURT AN FASHION. On Friday morning the Queen and Prince Albert took their accustomed walk in the grounds ladjoining the Castle. Their Royal Higlhnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Alice 'were taken a carriage airing and a walk for soene time in the forenoon in Frogmore Gardens. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred was taken for an airing in the Castle precincts. On ...

Published: Sunday 19 January 1845
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5243 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... I ?? 0 FOREIGN -CORRESPONDENCE AND MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE. (EXCLUSIVE FOR THIE ERA.) PARIS.-ITALIAN OPERA.-This theatre has at length made good its promise, and the reprise of La Beatrice has effectively taken place. The' reprise,' exclaims a Parisian critic, indignantly,` it is time that the manager should afford a new pourpointt.- How~ever just in truth way be (he reclama. tions of ...

Published: Sunday 05 January 1845
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 7977 | Page: Page 5, 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE AND MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE. (EXCLUSIVE FOR TH5E ERAs.) PARis..The Thl6tre Fraunais has sustained a serious loss by the precipitate and unexpected departare of 11dle. Plessy, by far the best interpreter of the characters of high comody since the clays of Mdlle. Mars, for whose absence she offered-the best consolation This artist has sent in her formal resignation of ...

Published: Sunday 20 July 1845
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4667 | Page: Page 5, 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

SPORTING LITERATURE

... . - I7 'FEE SPrT.NrOx N AGAZGNE. ?? A. Pittman, Warwick. 1:are.)-'1e tluciber For the present month has a remarkably p relyv engraving of 1 ly Pack`, depicting the young heir apparent, in the plenitude of his glory, astride his favorite pony, with as miscellaneous an assemblage of canines as could be collected frlon the Newfoundland to the Blenheims-from the terrier to the lap-dog. There is ...

Published: Sunday 09 February 1845
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 816 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture