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LITERATURE

... constitute a gentleman. The Mam in the Club Window treats his subject in a peculiarly piquant style, occasionally inclined to speak of - the habits of good society, not as they are actually received, but as they ought to be, according to his particular notion; ...

PICKINGS FROM PUNCH

... that their priests a-pilantd, the Pope interfe-red cue fonly. Wsvd it to save life? W~as itto restrain brutality? ~hy, weare speak- ing of Pius IX. An Austrian officer had slougnaes re a boy of Seventeen, and o there was a rule that hov Conss be eighteen ...

LITERATURE

... depart without a word of expostulation, and'even of reproof? Could he receive him with g. bland smile and insincere accolade; speak to him of the unmeaning topics of the hour, or of the. cold politics of the world? impossible I It would have been at variance ...

THE MUSICAL FESTIVAL

... simply a disgrace to the city, which, in this matter,-mustbe`- h held to represent the country, of which it is, commercially speaking, the capitaL. 'Do the Glasgow Pu lknow how the Festivals are sup- r ported in England-? We fear not, otherwise it would have ...

LITERATURE

... promise that it will not be unworthy of the received talent of its author. Of the construction of the story it would be vain to speak, as it is scarcely yet deve- t loped, but the illustrations of nature, and human nature, C promise to be of the most lively ...

LITERATURE

... the snow was drifting down, John Frazer sate by his ingle-side With his good wife Marion, And they spate, as godly folk will speak, O' the kirk and the kirk's concerns, t Of hair-breadth 'scapes in thousand shapes, t And they spake o' their bonnie balrns ...

LITERATURE

... . it and bringin Zriesous persecutions n ?? professors. The ci Japanese are very eritieal, and the biographer of Zavior b speaks of their tbeo ical discussions as if they had been v modern Calvini.ts ad. MnorisoniSan. 'It Was difficult to I prove to the ...

GLASGOW MUSICAL FESTIVAL

... Zillah, who has remonstrated with them (in the immediately preceding recitative), rushes on, in a tempest of music, so to speak, to a climax of excite. ment, and, though most difficult for the vocal executauts, from the occurrence of so many accidentals ...

THEATRE-ROYAL

... Mre. Sean, apart from the brilliancy of her more classic ?? .delineations, has;. in' this domestic sphere, if we may .so speak, reigned unrivalled. In the earlier scenes -of this tragedy, we saw reflected by. Mrs. Sean 'that deep-rooted affection of ...

THE THEATRE-ROYAL

... perfect reflection of courtly grace and refinement, and at its close it displayed the depth of. tragic effect, if we may so speak, as so wonderfully evolved by Shakspere. Mr. and Mrs. Kean were again enthusiastically summoned before the curtain; and Miss ...

THEATRE-ROYAL

... from the tempter with these beautiful words-the bruised worm may turn; the crashed one suffers motionless. Neither can we speak in terms too eulogistic of the genuine truthf ulness and womanly dignity thrown into or the character of Lady Evelym by the ...

LITERATURE

... Republican t o or Royalist Cleopatras of the French Antonys-Lepidi and a Octavii of the Directory. The traditions of the time speak 1( of the presence and dress of Madame Recamier at the spec- Y tacles, the fdtes,.and even the tables of the Directory, where ...