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LITERATURE

... centenary meetings were held in every town and village, and oratory and eloquence, prose and verse, rai down the streets, Eo to speak, like a mighty torrent. In various parts of Eng land and Ireland, in the British Colonies, and in the United States of America ...

FASHIONS FOR MAY

... the benefit of our usual tour of inspection. The pardessus occupies ,considerable attention at the present moment. We must speak of several, the productions of one of our first houses, varying from the most sumptuous, trimmed with many yards of hand- some ...

GOETHE—THE CAVALIER'S CHOICE

... answers best of all a Shall be my. own ladye ! a I ween they blushed as maidens do r When such rare words they hear- t ' Now speak thy riddles, if thou wilt, 1 Thou gay young cavalier ! s What's longer than the longest path? a First tell ye that to me; ...

POETRY

... clouded with the mists P (f dull mortality; Long, spectral figures, mocking, point at me: Strange figaros laugh and jeer,- They speak: I cannot understand; Slowly they beckon me and disappear. Esseneo of all that hath been or shall be! Who may disown thy sway ...

LITERATURE

... we speak of essences, when we speak of existences absolutely; we call those same essences-or at least what we know of them-qualities when we speak of the forms under which we know them, and these qualities, again, we call powers, whoen we speak of them ...

THE STAR IN THE EAST

... saved! Woman, that thirsts beside the well, And man, that drowns hi sight of shore, - Hark, where afar the anthemns swell That speak your desolation o'er: Behold, where ruin hath no share- See Death, the conqueror, conquered there! O Thou, that art the life-the ...

POETRY

... Quair. 'I Tis fair, she said on looking forth, But what althougih 'twore bleak and bare- She looked the love she did not speak, And broke the ancioat curso on Qmslr. c Wherce'r lie dwells, whereo'e he goes, His dangers nnd his toils I share, What nieed ...

POETRY

... tbine honest quaintncs, and I seek ] For comfort wvhen my soad is dark with strif; Is Ard to -Y dIroOpint heart I hcar thee speak, it Cheering Inc on the veary marchle of life is With ,sweet philosophy that soothes the mind, A changeless friend, for ever ...

SATURDAY EVENING CONCERTS

... feggio Assorpatioo, under the direction of Mr John Bi-hop. Of Mrs Howard'd merils a5 a singer vie bave bud frequent .c sion to speak in terms of praise; uend eervaiily on this occasion she fully sustained the reouie- tion she has acquiredi. Her singing of ...

LITERATURE

... he has expeienced, iwe doubt not, at every scene in his drama. Sir Walter Scott, though his historical dramas, if we may so speak, do not assume even the nomi- nal structure or limits of dramatic literature, has yet been enabled in Ivanhoe and Kenilworth ...

STORY OF A SULTANA

... her husband. This gentle- ,man, whco was educated in Paris, and speak-s French very fluently, held the office of chief of ?? the staff in the Ministry of War, and havingihe 1 habit of speaking his mind freely on ren and things, made himself a great manay ...

PICKINGS FROM PUNCH

... while to speak her thoughts aloud, Italy, sad and stern, awaits the hour- The Empire is Peace ! And if. these records of the truth be weak, To sweep your stubborn (doubts, like dreams, away; - ' With trumpet-tongue let the armed thousands speak-§ Who late ...