THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... I Large numbers of Packages for the Exposition have my arrived at Southampton from Constantinpe ae The compositors are threatened with annihilation by a to French genius, who proposes to send to the Exhibition a oft machine for composing and distributing type at the rate 01 of ton thousand per hour. The temperance societies Intend to getupiabdyt th Great Exhibition.' so as to have a hundred ...

MR. H. C. COOPER's CONCERT

... MR. H. C. COOPER'S CONCERT. Mr. H. C. Cooper's annual concert took place on Tuesday I evening batnt vorla d attracted a nameirous and feehionable audience;t and we nay say 0of Zitnthe ohutelt ?? I at more chaste and clasipcal musical entert inet has seldom been heard in this city. The main features of the programm conseted ofgen from the instrumental writings ofmMendelssoin, Beethoven, and ...

Literature

... I Ltterature4 Notes on the Ecclesiastical and Monumental Architecture and Sculp. fure of the Middle Ages in Bristol ; cith Antiquarian, Historical, Biographical, and Heraldic Elucidations: copiously Illustrated, by George P.yce.-J. Lavars, Bridge-street, Bristol. The author of this little work, amongst many other pursuits, has devoted considerableattentioD to antiquarian research, and hasbeen, ...

GREAT EXHIBITION

... The Perth Courier states that Lord Willoughby ?? has, with his usual liberality, hired, at his own expense, a house in London for the accommodation of such of the tenants on his extensive estates as may wish to visit the Great Exhibition. The general principle on which the arrangement of the goods in the Exhibition will be carried out, viz., that foreign countries will occupy the eastern. and ...

Reviews

... MIil3w0. The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines. In a Series of Fifteen Tales. By lNY COWDEN CLARIOs. Tale If. The Thane's Dauyhter. London: Smith and Son Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. A FEW weeks ago we noticed the first tale of this series, Portia, the Heiress of Belmont, and i now we have before us The Thane's Daughter, I the preludes to Lady Macbeth. Every reader of Shakespeare is, of course, ...

Poetry

... 30etorp._ SUBMISSION. I snAkL rise, though now I 'm fallen: From the willow take my lyre; And this trouble yet shall leave me Purified, like gold, from fire. While my every hair Is numberd, Tell me, am I not secure? Sorrow more or less all humbleth, But the longest soon is o'er. Bless thee-bless thee, Heag ?? Father! For thy staff and for thy row Deal with me as doth beseem thee: All s for my ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... TSR FaTuRx WrVES OF ENGLAND-lTy pretty little dears- You are no more fit for matrimony than a pullet is to look after a family of fourteen chickens. The truth is, my dear girls, you want, generally speaking, more liberty and less fas ionable restraint; more kitchen and less parlour; morelegexercise and less sofa; more making puddings and less piano; more frank. ness and less mock-modesty; more ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... I The Letters Apostolic of Pope Pius IX; considered wit I reference to the Law of England and the Law of Europe. By Travers Twiss, ?? of Doctors' Commons; Fellow of University College, Oxford; and Commis- ?? of the Diocese of Canterbury. Longman and Co. The nature of the investigation opened up in this volume, and the character and attainments of its author, entitle it to marked consideration ...

Published: Saturday 01 February 1851
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 8112 | Page: Page 3, 4, 5, 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Poetry

... ipovirp. TO ROME. As I stood on the Forum's sacred earth, a And gazed on the ruins of Roman birth, I thought that each column its silence broke, t And these words of fate the echoes wvoke ! e Oh Rome t thou panting heart of giant men, t Thou that once wert-and then did cease to be; h Long dead-late risen-we welcome thee again, v Henceforth and ever more worthy to be free- Metropolis of the ...

Poetry

... jpoetry. TO ROME. As I stood on the Forum's sacred earth, And gazed on the ruins of Roman birth, I thought that each oolumn its silence broke, t And these words of fate the ochoes woke ! e Oh Rome! thou panting heart of giant men, Thou that once wert-and then did cease to be; Long dead-late risen-we welcome thee again, .Henceforth and ever more worthy to be free- yetropolis of the world's ...

THE BOY ON THE GATE

... The rosy cheek' durehin that swings on the gate Is a right merry monarch in all but estate; But treasure brirgs trouble. What title is free? Thus better without one, thus happy is he, bot the ring of his laugh is a mirth moving strain, Which a'choir of young creatures respond to again. The birds are all siding, each heart is elate, With the rosy cheek d urchin that swings on the gate. The rosy ...

THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... A most elaborate and detailed classification of all the articles to be exhibited in the thirty different classes into which the productions of the United Kingdom will be divided is in course of preparation by Professor Playfair, which will, when completed, form one of thie most valuable of the many interest- ing and useful classifications yet published by the Comniissioners. Such a complete ...