... Chapman and HILl. There is a sort of nonsense that includes much' wit and' sense for which Mr Titmarsh is notorious. We do! not speak after the fashion of the: great mathematician who called - poetry nonsense, qualifying it as ingenious. We use the word in ...

... the Old Poets and Dramatists, %with other Literary Remains of S. T. Coleridge. Edited by Mrs H. N. Coleridge. Pickering. It speaks well for the dispositions of the existing reading public that new editions of these works should have been called for. The ...

... though somewhat over-grotesque impersonation of a villanous clerk. Mr Herbert looked capitally as a black servant, but his speaking was not up to the mark. However, the great respon- sibility of the piece lay on the shoulders of Mr Davenport, who played ...

... But, though we care little for Zenocrate in the extraordinary composition before us, there are lines in which her husband speaks of her which may rank with the most masterly in the play. Here, for example, where he celebrates her beauty as beyond all ...

... Yon might at least give a civil answer ! murmured the Bee. I see many new things, said the Cat, which are not worth speaking about. Have you seen any new thing this morning that would make a picture? inquired the Artist, who was now resolved to ...

... million feet is on all streets and thoroughfares, the sound of its bewildered thousandfold voices is in all writin.;s and speakings, in all thinkings and modes and activities of men : the soul that does not now, with hope or terror, discern it, is not the ...

... Until after the middle of the sixteenth century, it is difficult to find ballads written by kinown authors; so that, wvhen we speak of the Old Spanish Ballads, we do not refer to the few whose period can be settled with some accuracy, but to the great mass ...

... incidents, in which there is much fairly disputable matter of which we do not desire to speak. The extract we shall take relates to the more mature, and, so to speak, public passages in Lady Blessington's life, which, up to the period of its sudden and ...

... dramatic novelty of the week has been a new ro- mantic play at SADLER'S WELLS by the veteran actor Mr George Bennett. The Times speaks highly of this piece, and with apparently good reason. The incidents are taken from the civil war of Cromwell's time, and ...

... by those who knew, and such as only heard of her. Thus much, in grief, touching my parents; nor was it reasonable I should speak less of them to whom I owe so much. We quote this because the greater part of it is now printed for the first time. The original ...

... early visit to the OLYmpic. O.there be players, that I have seen play,-and heard others praise, and that highly,-not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of chris- tians, nor the gait of christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted ...

... of the criminal suffer- ers, and not unfrequently he adopts a maudlin tone of false sentiment and misdirected sympathy in speaking of offenders. His opponent, on the other hand, gives vent to the scorn which this cant (for cant it is, inasmuch as cant ...