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THE ART OF SPEAKING

... ultimate In ill success. The moment they try to speak, all tlseir asfeelings, thoughts, facts, and purposes, either crowd to the tongue or fly altogether, and leave it d.utterly bankrupt of words. Those who can speak r asdo 'not often hring credit on the gift ...

SATURDAY EVENING CONCERTS

... LL.D., which he now held. (Applause.) For many years he had been known as a literary man, but he did r not stand there to speak of him in that character-he spoke s of hins more particularly as the first writer of the day. (Ap- plause.) He was sure he ...

MALIBRAN

... cribb'd and small Is scarcely heard in softest whispers low; The features that shone out with conscious power, Now pale and wan, speak of fast-wasting life; And that bright eye, that flash'd in passion's song, Glisten'd in pathos, or in gladness danc'd, Or glew'd ...

TO JOHN BRIGHT

... Barnburning, filibustering, wholesale repudiation, John; The noblest of the citizens averse from public life, John For those who speak what riles the mob, the tar and feathers rife, John. What is there In the fruits of the system you so laud, John, That we should ...

A WOMAN'S QUESTION

... me so. Is there within thy heart a need That mine cannot fulfil? One chord that any other hand Could better wake or still? Speak now-lest at some future day my whole life wither and decay. Lives there within thy nature hid The demon-spirit Change. Shedding ...

MONS. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS

... Quadrille and General Havelock'T Triumphal march ; these, with the dance music, it is almost superfluous to say, when speaking of Jullien's Orchestra, were effectively and admirably executed; some of the solos introduced being loudly applauded, and ...

LITERATURE

... thus sums up the individuality, if we may so speak, of those four Apostles. St. Paul, as the Apostle in whom was most conspicuous the intellectual faculty, rests his de- fence upon his own sound reason ?? I speak forth the words of truth and soberness;' ...

LITERATURE

... naturally takes its place in a course of univergat 'er literature. We are going to speak to you, he says, e of elf the sublime musician Mozart, as we shall afterwards speak of Phidias and of Raphael, those two great artists in stone ch and on canvas, who ...

NEW MUSIC

... the style of the late R. A. Smith too strongly in his imagination, while we think there were many nobler exemplars-not to speak of the giant Handel, or the most quaintly. tender and pathetic Mendelssohn-whom he E might have tried to follow, if even at ...

LITERATURE

... Petrareh. There is no such literature in tny other pictures. His pencil is a pen ; be speaks, he sinks, while lie draws; his colours emmsit isusic; his canvas is lyric; lie speaks three languatges in one; we hecar him paint, -we feel his delinea- tiuns, we see ...

LITERATURE

... contact. This was i comparatively easy, for the Government mighit require that I no native should take an office unless he could speak the 4 English tongue, and that no Englishman, in turn, should be placed in a position of authority unless he was well ano quaintedl ...

THE BROUSIL FAMILY CONCERTS

... from individual exertion or precocity, as from the careful manner in w-hich each child performs his or her part. Generally speaking, these are not diffi- cult; but from the avoidance of theundue prominence of any particular instrument, a most harmonious ...