LITERATURE

... improvisatores of Gaul, if preserved by the art of reporting, could not be more essentially a literature than the speeches i of Grattan, Curran, Plunket, and their attendant stars. v Unhappily some of their happiest efforts come to us shorn I of their fair ...

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 

LITERATURE

... weight of his gauntletted hand. O'Neill grasped him in his arms, and the combatants rolled together, in that fatal embrace, to the ground:- ' Now, gallant Saxon ! hold thine own No maiden's arms are round thee thrown.' There was one moment's deadly wrestle ...

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 ...

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 

Public Amusements

... and arraignment as the murderer of Leyton. misl By an ingenious ?? ho obtains possession of the test old man's money; thus armed, lie makes vile proposals he xi to Mary Casmpbell, which she with scorn repulses; and as enec5 Beertrum is rudely dragging ...

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 ...

LITERATURE

... LITERATURE. THE HISTORY OF IRELAND FROM THE EAR. LIEST PERIOD TO THE YEAR 1845. By JOHN W)ALTON, Esq, Barrister-at.Law. Among those whom zeal for our national reputation and anxiety to uphold the just claim of our country to an early and high degree of ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... discussion and of bearing arms in the nat onal defence, to the small Protestant minority of a Roman Catholic people. What better fate might better signalize the eternal quarrellings and dissentions of the Floods and Grattans. The Liabilities incurred ...

THEATRICALS, &c

... that she acts under the impulses of real genius; her look of rffright and surprise, when she finds herself' delivered into the arms ofRenoult, wasasstronglyexprea- sive of her feelings as the most passionate words could have been. Excellent as a-ere the passages ...

Reviews

... R Pisol, now Casocwell, now Bom astes, and now King Arthur. Grattan, O'Brien and others, are limited to little more than the dellvery of messages. We therefore hope that the Serjeant-at-Arms will be spared a sea-sickness; that he will not be despatched ...