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THE FINE ARTS

... studded in un- meaning rows across the canvas. But, as a work of art, it never ranked above mediocrity. Tlhe workofwhich we row speak is in no-respect like that. The Allied Generals before Sebastopol ibelongs to a noble style of art, and will always stand ...

LITERATURE

... great features attendant on this gigantic niovemnent in all the princi- pal countries in the continent of Europe. We do not speak of this work as entitled to aspire to the name of History, but assuredly it is one of the ablest compilations of the great ...

TOWN AND TABLE TALK ON LITERATURE, ART, &c

... drove Douce half clazy with delight. In no other portrait is bluff King Hal seen so fully to the life. He does 1 all but speak to Wolsev or Anne Boleyn and in no other -miniature do we see Anne of Cleves so fair, so fresh-as if - three hundred years ...

ANECDOTES OF THE PARSIAN THEATRES.*

... call this progress, he used to say, and they do not even leave a pocket in which to put the key of one's dressing-room. Speaking of Doctor Guilltin, M. Maurice says he met him frequently, and that lie was a little man with grey hasir, of mild aspect ...

LITERATURE

... iniaginatioin, in the sense of the poet, has no reference to images that are merely a *It would be well, ifinstead of speaking of the poeers ofthe mind (which causes a misunderstanding), ee adhered to the designation of the several operations of one ...

LITERATURE

... the villanies of the Whigs, and the dangers of the Church, that hel had become a furious partisan when lie could scarcely speak. I Before he was three lie had insisted on being taken to hear l Sacheverell preach at Lichfield Cathedral, and had listened ...

LITERATURE

... of the dogs was a fatal blow to the hopes of Dr. Kane, who seems to have even thought of reaching the actual Pole, for le speaks in one place of the tantalisisig verticality of the Polar star. After exploring to somewhere about latitude 82 deg., and seeing ...

LITERATURE

... great man ofsscience. d Of Mr. Dickson's lecture on the Life, Lahbours, and Geniusa 'a of WVilson, we fiiud it difficult to speak in moderate terms. It .eis full of fine sentiment, of a just appreciation of the character t' of his fellow-towinsman, and ...

GALLERY OF THEATRICAL PORTRAITS

... converse with her mother and tell her . where the needles might be found, but whlen awake she could t seldom be induced to speak of them. Also, when in this sleep- ing or somnambulic state. sihe was entirely unconscious of painS. .rWhile cutting through ...

LITERATURE

... given, Went to his duty with a manly iheart- Soldier end Surgeon-true to either part I 'With only one attendant who could speak His country's tongue,-amid unceasingshriek, And groan, and wall, and cry, woful to bear- The raven and the vulture hovering ...

THE TESTIMONY OF THE ROCKS.*

... are vastly looser,-have much less of thought-of the tempered steel-iiwrought into them. Carlyle is as powerful but, without speaking of the negative tenour of his dogmas, ever breakiig down without building up, lie has far less ele- gance, and his writicigs ...

THE TESTIMONY OF THE ROCKS.*

... marks of former ages. If ow strange a factl. Not n only are we accustomed to speak of the eastern continents as . the Old World, in contradistinction to the west, but to speak also of the world before the Flood as the Old World, in con X v Xtradiatinction ...