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FARRAR'S FAMILIES OF SPEECH*

... with whuich w-e are concerned is this one, and equally with ourselves are concerned the cultivated Brahmin, the Tzaconian-speaking sailor of the Nauplian Gulf, the Welsh peasant, the Norwegian fisherman, the wandering Zincala, the polished Frenchman, the ...

FALLEN AMONG THIEVES*

... which Mr. Marcus Parks, the very young and very bumptious barrister, while hinting to a diffident witness that he need not speak of him as My Lord, since lie is not a judge yet, replies to his apologetic retractation that he is only a little premature ...

ANCIENT CLASSICS FOR ENGLISH READERS*

... always bearing in mind that Homer is not one of the writers to whom Mr. Collins's scheme is most applicable, it is difficult to speak too highly. An adequate introduction, both historical and mythological, having been prefixed, the whole drama of the Iliad ...

EPIGRAMMATISTS*

... throbs not at. the slightest touch of thine. Take one more by the mighty veteran:- -roul word you never spoke, but you wvill speak hour iot exempt from pride some future day. ,cit i mm one white hand a wvarmi, wet cheek O)v ser immy Open volume you ?? say ...

DUELLING PAST AND PRESENT

... a burst of applause. This arfair in itself wvould not have (lone much, seeing that the conduct of the survivor U as, so to speak, legally justified in the end, but the public mind by this time was thoroughly alive to the immense prepondlerance of the evil ...

MR. DICKENS'S NEW STORY*

... oust be confessed that his conversation is rather closely studded with the atibor's own whimsicalities. When the auctioneer, speaking of his deceas(-u wifte. asks. in the fulness of his own self-esteem, What if her husband had 1l,.en nc-rer ou a level with ...

THE THEATRES

... entertainment, interspersed with clever dialoguc. Its music is of the old popular kind, which does not require any voice to speak of; and its literary pretensions do not rise above clever puns of the old-fashioned verbal species. But its action is brisk ...

THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER

... on whatsoever subject he talked, and however transparent were the brilliant fallacies which he delightc'I to utter when speaking against everything and everybody. Then came a Session when his light paled in presence of the unwilling liberalism of the ...

THE NEW EDITION OF SHELLEY*

... 488, vol. ii., and morn ' inst'-'a. of moon in page 230 of the same volume. In page 375, vol. i., it is ?? :t moon who speaks the whole quatrain When the sunset sleeps, &c. litt ?? d .line to accept the blosiny spring as a Shelleyan substitute ...

THE POETRY OF THE PERIOD*

... passages Mr. Austin states his conviction that the Laureate is not a great poet. and that it is high time somebody should speak out what is distinctly in the minds of an independent few and hazily in the minds of the servile maly. This is not all. ...

THE OPERA

... his entire approval-I may add, with his admira- tion, for nothing could be more enthusiastlic than his language to me in speaking of the mounting of his mas- terpiece at Covent Garden by his friend and ardent ad. mirer, Sir Michael Costa. No two amriatcurs ...

FRESCO PAINTING

... high art and its professors. i' isi.; 'its i mural painting which have hitherto been made in this I I I - nrot generally speaking, been successful. To begin with legitimate i, ' Fr1 ist o, at it is called in Italy), we have the Westminster Palace ; ...