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THE MARRIAGE VOW

... TIHE MARRIAGE VOW. Speak it not ?? a holy thing, A bond enduiring through long distant years, When joy o'er thli:c abode is hovering, Orwhen thion eye is wet with bitterest tears, Recorlrl oy an angel's pesl o0l high. And must be (qestion'd in eternity' ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... Take this noble passage, in which Mr Thackeray speaks of the letters of Pope. You live in them in the finest company in the world. A little stately, perhaps; a little cppre't and conscious that they are speaking to whole generations who are listening; but ...

DRAMA

... iEngland.' .It 'is ' too extravagan - for -our tastes. ,Even: it farces, much -as our theatres oi .to 'them, v could, generaly speaking, be -failures if produd '.in a . -azitga~dforma. Th~ey .w,'ud v b ,loted ,c trageou :1e',veu by aa' Adelphi 'critic. ' So ...

NEW SONGS TO OLD TUNES

... Oh ! no, we never mention her. I Oh ! no, we never mentioned :it, its name was nevet heard, Our lips were each forbid to speak that all familiar word, Base money, none durst utter it, the very thought would scare His worship, pare as Cmsar's ...

THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL EXAMINER

... the ST JAMiES THEATRE, Louise de Lignerolles, but the drama is poor, and even with this great actress the effect nothing to speak of. Mr Benedict on Wednesday gave his Annual Morning Concert at the HANOVER SQuARE Rooms. Mr Benedict's concert is always one ...

MUSIC

... advantage either as an actress or a singer.t X Of the merits (or rather demerits) of- the opera we s r have often bad occasion to speak. Dramatically as I I well as musically it is perhaps the very weakest of d T Donizetti's productions. It moves slowly and heavily ...

THEATRES

... angel Mons. St. Leon is as nimble, as clever with his fingers as with his: feet. In his hands, the violin does everything but speak, It laughs, growls, coughs, and sneezes. It is a kind of Woodin instrument in. its way, imitating all sorts of things-pigs ...

LITERATURE

... probable that none of the loss nosy spoken of would have occurred. This is a very sensible and important pamphlet, so far as it speaks. A TREATISE ON GAS WouRs. By SAMUEL HUGHES, C.E. Weale, 1853. A full and substantial work is this upon the manufacturing and ...

Published: Sunday 19 June 1853
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1981 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE FORTUNES OF THE DRAMA

... that ever was invented for the instruction of the people; and SHAxsPEiLE is the greatest of uninspired teachers. In short, we speak seriously when we say, in proof of our estimation of the value of the stage, that it would give us sincere pleasure to see ...

Published: Sunday 12 June 1853
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1074 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

FINE ARTS

... he had no idea that he was outraging, instead of illustrating, the mysteries of Revelation, we should not have hesitated to speak in more severe terms of the picture than we shall do. But when we find the Day of Judgment painted in the spirit of such a ...

REVIEWS

... the employment in its compilation of ni t the joint labours of French and English philo-b s lagers-the ingraftment, so to speak, of English -rearch upon French knowledge-has borne rich f& Y fruit in the judicious adaptation of the explana- fi if tory ...