... the toss; They chatter of keeping together, Of errors in steering across. Each feels that her own crew is winning, And speaks of a glorious spurt; They know that to catch the beginning, Is good for a rower-or flirt! Then flutters the indigo streamer ...

... more life-like, ortherehad been a few strong dramatic situations introduced, or the attacks upon democracy, right of public speaking and public meeting been expunged, Oriana might have made some way even against the improbabilities and unrealities of its ...

... dangerous mob, principally by means of cold water, which is told with an unusual amount of life and vigour. As to the plot, or, to speak more accurately in this case, the conventional complication into which it is necessary for a novelist to bring his characters ...

... grotesque to be entertained in respect of an honourable and patriotic institution. 'But the fact remains that the sum, strictly speaking, was not a legacy, but in the nature of a gift by the ladies in accordance with a wish verbally expressed by Lord Leighton ...

... the red robes of the Cardinal, to speak, after his wont, a few parting words. These phenomena of the theatrical world might be said to indicate 'the close of the dramatic season ; but for the fact that, strictly speaking, there is, nowadays,; no dramatic ...

... carry you off to a warm climate for the winter. Then the woman's voice murmured a reply, and the man exclaimed, Pray don't speak so ! You know that you can believe in my affection for you, do younot? MIrs. Flint here gave a loud and elaborate cough in ...

... 11 us1 ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.--Wagner has at length obtained a hearing in London-such a hearing as helps him to speak freely in the peculiar language he has adopted to the compre- hension of those whom he wishes to convince. Having listened to his LOe.rin ...

... 1,1147-el ,Kusi? ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. --Since our last there has been no novelty to speak of at this theatre. Madame Adelina Patti has appeared in two of Verdi's most popular works, La Traviata and Ii Trovatore; and it is as hard to decide now as it was ...

... Signor Campana, vouchsafed us by the late Mr. Gye, at the instigation of Madame Adelina Patti-with little or no success to speak of-not, indeed, until the production of the grand ballet d'action, at Her Majesty's Theatre, under Mr. Lumley (March, 1844) ...

... 1.;, I THE denationalisation, so to speak, of the English stage would appear to be progressing at a rather alarming rate; for while two distinguished companies of French performers are preparing to appear at the GAIETY, and ?? company and a German company ...

... mysteriously but surely bound to him by their fellowship in evil,-to no other human being can he showv himself as he is, and speak freely. As we do not think it would be fair to the author to reveal the issue of her story, we will tell no more of it, but ...

... unable to. speak the vernacular of Bengal, they designate Kokees. . The greater number of the people at present living in the Chittagong'Hills came about two generations ago from Arracan. They are called the a' Children of the River; they speak the anciert ...