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HUMOROUS GATHERINGS

... lie had made no written preparation, that being, he had been told, unlawyer-like-a lawyer being supposed to bh capable of speaking without note or notice, any number of hours on any subject, in a style of thrilling eloquence So our orator trosted to the ...

PROVINCIAL THEARICALS

... decided success that during the tiee they remain in this city we shell expect to see immense audiences. Of the lady we cannot speak too highly. She has a lovely soprano voice, and is as actress of no ordinary capabilities. She has decidedly far surpassed ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1860
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 12559 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... Choking vith anguish, she could only cry from the innermost recesses-of her heart, 0 my fatherl 0 im' father ! Unable to speak, while tire tears coarsed downI his pale cheeks, he corld only returnt her fervent embrace while even'the grards were affected ...

COURT AND FASHION

... unnmber, noticing the above work, the following:-` But one fault wen have necessarily to fond with Mr. Timnbs's book. While speaking so hielily of chsemsical as wve1 as ooecianicaZ inventions, how isit that in the list of discoverers we do not see the name ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1860
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1555 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENTS

... expected to hear All, and all on the same night. This is, of course, I simply impossible, and we shall expect a free pardon for speaking briefly, in most cases from report, on their respective merits and demerits. On the Christmas.day it would have been a safe ...

LOVE AND LAWYERS

... amusing writers of the day. Ladies are dis. covered to us in those weak moments when they call their husbands l ovey, and speak ts them adoringly in the neuter gender. No man starting on his honeymoon trip ean 'be certain that the words of endearment ...

LITERATURE

... Will be the final goal of in- To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood. t But let him but speak for himself, he will con- found and delight you. Tour wordly wisdom is as i riothing to his inspired eloquence. He will lead ...

FASHIONS FOR JANUARY

... borders are very useful in freshening up to eawihmay have been a little damaged, at the bottom Sil thyaeworn so long. They also speak of putting ho eal fadifferent colour down the aides of the dresses, at' ressace made- as tall as ever, and set in in large ...

LITERATURE

... Mreseotlitmeits of 'that, ill ciiifsed phraseology, we dcoit4ninate the ?? point of honour. Tlhe civiiised o EMuropea,-we speak of the civilisation of thle nine- a teecuth centtury-keecly rcselnts any attemlipt at for- I Wll)le measures, even thoull the ...

LITERATURE

... works hard, he gains H. N ~s t of thellrizee lieworks for, and he leaves Cam- Leath ge full of honour Id credit, Stri ctly speaking, .Tin, ef ~ inilkoop, but so pure and. uprigh~t a, specimen T Ill the ~cliarater, thatie fully., deserves all the thisl 5 ...

LITERATURE

... geniously discovered and ably followed out. His adoption of the mathematical form, with certain I modifications, which he speaks of as awkward, but which few persons else would have ventured so to call, is an expedient which must incalculably widen ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... is thrown unbroken and without distortion. A literal and honest man, who had the full confidence of the great com. moner, speaks through these pages without reserve, and shows the spirit of his whole political career. After Pitt's death, and after the ...