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Literature, &c

... seighty muster Foremost stood our falthers, Lord For their eyes Tlaine orient lastre,- For their ears Thine earliest word ! Speak Tiy counsel now as theen First nato Thine Eglishsmen I Still the land beloved Thou leades t Of Thy radiancy most bright; Thisie ...

Poetry

... And man grew sordid, fierce, and bold, Through lust of wealth and greed of gold; And spurning nature's laws divine, Began to speak of mine and thine. Then Peace and Love from earth were driven, Unfurled their wings and soared to heaven, Whilst Hate and ...

MUSIC

... staff the cathedral pos- scsses, there is little reason to fear that it may again occupy its forler position, Last week, when speaking of the Mendelssohn monu- ment about to be erected at Berlin, we noticed briefly the progress music was making, and the high ...

RUSKIN ON THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION OF 1858

... public little harm by their pictures, and whose friendship I should be sorry to lose. But the real and chief reason for my not speaking of sucs and such pictures is miy not having had tine to look at them. This pamphlet must, if it is to be useful, be printed ...

Literature, &c

... the same purpose as the so-called expla- nations of the current mark in treatises of much less value than the one we are speaking of. We must confess we had expected something more explanatory. While we write we have before us a flake of rook taken from ...

THE OPERA AT THE THEATRE ROYAL

... wedge-like disposition of their numbers. Of the performance itself, with one or two distinguished exceptions, we are compelled to speak in the came con- deumnatory strain. The choreses were not merely weak and inefficient, but absolutely out of tune and time ...

Literature

... trial begins by the reading ca if the acte dlacccusatiln; the Procureur-G6n6ral then presses g he case against the prisoner, speaking generally with far v nore warmth, and expressing a much more decided opinion, ,han would be thought becoming in this country ...

MR. HARRISON'S CONCERT, LAST NIGHT

... tieconclusion was redeinesuded. He alsosang Who shall be fairest in his best style, that also being escrcef It is impossible to speak too highly of Madame Rudersdorf's rendering of Bleyerbeer's beautiful cavatina, Robert, tol que j'aiesr. The expression which ...

Foreign Miscellany

... latlvy roughl stats, ?? esiseralds having thlroughl Tb~l~eand vwe hlad ahnost saids mercilessly, drilled O2cers resitnee,~tet speaks of a corporal in the gallant by :~rth from £12, Vl£ t a bracelet whimch will probably a otlte r, receu-t £200,000. Another ...

THE CONCERT LAST NIGHT

... Mr. 13ickley, Mr. Moore, Mr. Mason, Mr. oflydn, and Mr. WerIss--0 by rivers.e.. h ilsos and Save hllr it is hasunecesry to speak separately of the performers or the pieces mny of them1 are So well 111ownI, Miadame WVeiss was the pincipa Clsoprano, and ...

MIDLAND INSTITUTE LECTURE

... suffices; its action was quicker and more corn plete, and it was not so liable to prodhuce spasmodic action of the ?? system. Speaking of the various objections which had been urged against chloroform, the lecturer said that from time to time cases had been ...

POULTRY SHOW AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE

... the poultry, express their opinion that the duckwing varieties arc the best that have everbeenexhibited. Itisimposibleto speak too highly of the fine symmetrical form, and the thoroughly good breeding of these game birds. Although the days of cock-fighting ...