... implied in his writing, unfortunately, such as at all to redeem the subject as fiction. As the characters speak, so their author himself speaks-even when he is purely himself, and not merely a histrionic mouthpiece-in dialect! and a dialect so chosen ...

... float among the banners of the free. Our colours then shall speak of hope, like springtide's glistening sheen, And all the world be brighter for our wearin' o the green. Our colours then shall speak of hope, like springtide's glistening sheen, And all the ...

... intelligent stranger in the Ladies' Gallery will enlighten them on that head:- An old friend of mine, who was going to speak on the Orissa famine, put my name down for admittance to the Ladies' Gallery of the house of Commons the other evening. It ...

... As You Like It and The Lady of Lyons. Of her performance in Lord Lytton's play we cannot speak. Of her performance in Shakspeare's play we have to speak out of an admiration so little qualified that we do not care to make any qualifi- cation at all ...

... authorship-of which we have had one, if not two, notable examples in our own country, Beaumont and Fletcher, and if one may speak of them in the same breath) two popular novelists of * Renee Mauperin; a Realistic Novel. By Edmond and Jules de Goncourt ...

... parliamentary orator is speaking to a foregone conclusion; the result, even the numbers on division, are known beforehand. Such a speaker, therefore, has not the great end of all oratory- persuasion-to sustain him. He may be speaking over the heads of his ...

... politely. P utting the cart before the horse, I explained. And speaking candidly, my friend, what is art but the word you have said, in many cases. I have seen pictures, and I speak what I know, which I have thought was hung upside down, and no kid ...

... What, again, would a child learn by being told that Spenser was full of Christianized platonism ? On page 73 Mr. Brooke speaks of some of the love poems of the latter part of the sixteenth century as possessing a passionate reality, others a quaint ...

... existing people and Government, while, in some respects, it is decidedly less so; yet no man was less inclined to think or speak well of Louis NAPOLEON than Mr. SENIOR. He describes the unfriendly feeling entertained towards England in 1842 by the bulk ...

... stock melo- drama. What chiefly causes me concern is the idea that Mr. Augustus Harris will in future use harsh terms in speaking of the Adelphi brethren, and that the (;attis will no longer pay the lessee of the Lane com- pliments behind his back ...

... and the raiscn d'e/re of the great religious bodies which they describe. This is not all easy thing to do. Dr. Ross, who speaks of the Presbyterians, perhaps Pe' foims it best, describing, as he does, things qzuorum Agors f5igg. X Nre shoald rote with ...

... is of the political ballads of Ireland that we now wish to speak. It is curious how very different they are from the political ballads of Scotland; but perhaps it is that, accurately speaking, Scotland has no political ballads of her own. Her ballads ...