... y, and who speaks with idiomatic and easy fluency when seated in a chair, cannot rise from that chair to address the very audience he has just been speaking to but forthwith his mental attitude is altered; he thinks commonplaces and speaks platitudes: ...

... to take a wife as he takes scrip, or go in with an empire as if it were a canal company He knew, says Mr. KINGLAKE, speaking of the Duke DE MORNY, 4 he knew how to found a 'company,' and he undertook to establish institu- tions which were destined ...

... to take a wife as he takes scrip, or go in with an empire as if it were a canal company. He knew, says Mr. KINGLAKE, speaking of the Duke DE MORNY, he knew how to found a 'company,' and he undertook to establish institu. tions which were destined ...

... written may be supposed less likely to be known by an English- man than the other languages of the civilized world. First, in speaking of the dual constitution of the Austrian monarchy, it is stated that the Magvars claim, under certain contingencies, the ...

... eloquence or poetry. Indeed it is rare to find a short piece so complete and impressive as her Desdichado (unhappy one), which speaks simply of the misery of having no belief in God, of seeing in the earth and heavens an objectless pageant or mechanism, giving ...

... intelligent stranger in the Ladies' Gallery will enlighten them on that head:- An old friend of mine, who was going to speak on the Orissa famine, put my name down for admittance to the Ladies' Gallery of the house of Commons the other evening. It ...

... As You Like It and The Lady of Lyons. Of her performance in Lord Lytton's play we cannot speak. Of her performance in Shakspeare's play we have to speak out of an admiration so little qualified that we do not care to make any qualifi- cation at all ...

... existing people and Government, while, in some respects, it is decidedly less so; yet no man was less inclined to think or speak well of Louis NAPOLEON than Mr. SENIOR. He describes the unfriendly feeling entertained towards England in 1842 by the bulk ...

... quoting. Suppose she had seen somewhere, without knowing where they came from, the words, Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you ! (Luke vi. 26), how oyould she have dealt with them ? We will take one more of her Emersonian puzzle ?? A foolish ...

... the walls of a theatree as theatres are now constructed. At the Crystal Palace excellent oppor-. tunities for comparing the speaking with the singing voice have been. affoided. When the meeting in favour of the Irish Church was held, the orators, even at ...

... Sensibility, makes LucySteele betray her imperfect grammar. At frail I could have sworn it was a German speaking. Though why Rp kle, a Dutchman, should speak German, is one of the mysteries into :c11 it is better not to inquire. As,. piece, Rip Van Winkle ...

... one of his letters lie says that it is only while composing or playing that he finds life endurable, and again and again he speaks of the habitual gloom that he cannot shake off. The paper which he left behind him, addressed to two of his brothers, and ...