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THE RETURN

... Ronald Baino P An' have ye seen my Will P Why are ye silent? Speak, I say i Au', oh, my breast, be still ! I bear ye cry, I see your face Cast toarfu' a' aroun'. Speak-for the love o' lieav'n, speak I Or else I surely swoon. My ance bright sight is growin' ...

MELODY IN SPEECH

... which he generally speaks, but which he often transposes higher or lower in sympathy to other voices and when he is excited. The omnnibus conductors in London ordinarily call out in the key of B flat; but at busy places and hours they speak in a higher key ...

THE FINE ARTS

... clumsiness of costume is dignified by excellent treatment. We liked MIr Theed's bas-reliefs ; but if we go on to speak of more works we must speak of' many more, therefore we pause abruptly, much against our will. ...

NEW BOOKS

... and David Kennedy, jun. (Paisley and London: Alex. Gardner.) Mr. David Kennedy went round the world-that is, the English. speaking world, and India, singing Scotch songs. His first journey was made in i866 to the United States and Canada, and he died in ...

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

... should be performed by amateurs. Recently we have had to speak of a representation of Much Ado About Nothing at St. George's Hall, and now the amateurs in a play of still greater difficulty. We can speak, upon the whole, with commendation of Ye Tabard Pilgryms ...

Published: Saturday 18 January 1890
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1040 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

An Artistic Causerie

... To these must be added the sketches for pictures now in the Royal Academy- such, for example, as II The Conjurer. Speak ! Speak ! had germinated in the painter's mind for five-and-twenty years, he told me, before he set about carrying it out. An ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1898
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 654 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... his system there can be no doubt. There is, however, public speaking of different kinds, and the most trying kinds have probably never fallen within the author's personal experience. Speaking at a crowded and tumultuous political meeting-success in which ...

LITERATURE

... ITER AT TUR E. THE ART OF VENTRILOQUISM. Ily FREDERICK MAwCCBE. Frederick Warne and Co.-If any man has a special right to speak about the art of ventriloquism it should be that grand master of the mystery Mr Frederick Maccabh, who has collected in the ...

Published: Sunday 14 November 1875
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 791 | Page: 3 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MUSIC

... premised our remarks on Verdi's Requiem in this generalising manner because we feel under considerable difficulty how to speak about it with fair appr~ecia tion without descending from the base of high cr1tical demand on which our remarks in these colunns ...

MY MUSICAL LIFE AND RECOLLECTIONS

... distrustful of his ability to speak English, 1. Rivibre used to carry a card with 'J'rafalgar-square written plainly upon it. This, when he lost himself, he showed to a policeman, and as he often did so without speaking a word, lie was more than once ...

Published: Saturday 23 September 1893
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 798 | Page: 15 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

The Chinese Giant at the Egyptian Hall

... striking from his extraordinary height and size. During the entertainment he speaks in Chinese to the audience, Chung Mow following his example. The Campradore ?? Teen speaks fair Enalish, and Mr. Siddons acts as a kind of chorus between the Celestia's ...

Published: Sunday 01 October 1865
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 793 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

The Thespian Amateur Dramatic Club at Bass's Rooms

... The Thespian Amateur Dramatic Club at BaBss's Rooms I. The Thespian Club (speaking of the members collectively) hees cached their third season, and their eighth performance. They ave also attained a pitch of depravity in murdering their Sove- eiga's English ...

Published: Sunday 25 December 1864
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 775 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture