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FALLING LEAVES

... adorned love's bower. But now I CouLIt sadly tle wveary hours, Anid my heart grows colii anil my eyes grow dimr; Faed love speaks no zisore in a bouquet of flowers, And the wailing wind sighs forth R funeral hymn. The sweet dream dissolved which my young ...

LITERATURE

... form a close corporation, and keep their affairs very much to themselves, so that it is only from common report that 9 we can speak of the value of the several chairs. But, upon I that authority, we believe the chair of Greek is worth £1000 a-year; those ...

JACOB HOMNIUM'S HOSS

... Is a mellitary beak, He knows Ino more of Lor Than praps ha does of Greek, And prowides hisself a deputy Because he cannot speak. Four counsel in this Court- Misnamed of JUstice-sits These lawyers owes their places to Their mollay, not their wits; And ...

FESTIVAL OF SCOTTISH MUSIC—PRIZE COMPETITION

... rendered with a degroe of skill not certainly inferior to anythinig of the kind we have lately listened to, and that gene- rally speaking, the vocalisation wvas strikingly effective, our readers will understand why it was that an Edinburgh audience, usually so ...

AN ITALIAN LANDSCAPE

... might look and sea Uptisirigs from a guileless heart, O'erflowis with love for me. - Wanted-a lip, whose kindest smile Would speak for me alone; A voice-whose richest melody, Would breathe affection's tone. Wanted-a true, religious soul To pious purpose ...

SURVEY OF THE SURREY MUSIC HALL

... only parts of the In premises that had given way were the southwestern and ?? north-eastern staircases; or, more correctly speaking, thie iron be balustrades. These were formed of twisted iron pillars an inch and a half in diameter, covered by a massive ...

THE NIGHT AFTER THE BATTLE OF THE ALMA

... rested unconscious tiesre, On her darling's pallid form. aE His lips were divided, as if in death He had striven in vain to speak; And the last sad words of his parting breath, Were stamped on his fair pale cheek. 0 Yet, still the last look of his love ...

THE OPERA

... the concert-room, from which we augured well of her qualifications for the stage. Of Signor Neri Baraldi we are enabled to speak more confidently, for, having heard him sing more than once, we venture to predict that his first appearance will at once ...

THE OPERA

... the curtain flIls, we have never heard any work better executed in a provincial theatre -for, musically and dramatically speaking, there is but one metropolis for Britain. W17here everybodywas almost as pcrfect as could retsonaluly be expected, the critic ...

THE THEATRES

... police spies, Douche, for its nominal hero, and a lady gambler and spy for its heroine. Of the principal character we need not speak. He is exhibited as villainous, cold, and unscrupulous as the most ardent admirer of the system of esponiage could desire, ...

LITERATURE

... the amiable Doctor a secret, or, at least, what seems to be a secret to him. The writers of s mere crambo are, generally speaking, far less deeply imbued t with the spirit of poetry-less susceptible of the pleasure s which poetry bestows-less liable to ...

LITERATURE

... beside us. We have dipped into its pages with much pleasure, and we trust not without instruction. We do-not now propose to speak of it at length,-first, because on a former occasion we expressed our opinion on ?? somewhat in detail, and next, because we ...