MISS RUSSELL'S HOBBY

... 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: ...

Poetry

... to bed, or get up? * Clock does all this, but I see and hear, I pralee without dsattery.. blame without fear, I sonmetises speak plainly, sometimes give a hiut, And laugh in my sleeve when I le/ture in print: You'll never guess, now, hut the truth would ...

HYMN TO THE NEW YEAR, ON ITS BEING RUNG IN BY CHURCH BELLS ON NEW-YEAR'S EVE

... But Memory speaks in him, as Hiope in thee. She speaks of mercies, gladdening as the light, aich as their Giver, free as heav'n above, Of softened griefs and darken'd hearts.made bright, . Of hopes fulfill'd, and-life-redeeming love. She speaks in warning; ...

PROFESSOR HUNT'S SECOND LECTURE

... audience, he did not refer at length, but passed on to speak of electricity, and as a preface to his remarks on this point, explained how electricity might be generated. He then went on to speak of the electric light, which he said had not yet been utilised ...

Pickings from Punch

... aleqa 1.-Hit one of your own size, Charity. Whene'er I take my walks abroad, How many poor see; And 'cos I never speaks to them, They never speaks to me. If ?? breeds contempt. The Train. 'Tis the voice of the sluggard, I hear him complain, You have woke me ...

Poetry

... go to bed, or get up? A Clock does all this, but I see and hear, I praise without flattory. blame without fear, I sometimes speak plainly, sometimes give a hint, And laugh in my sleeve when I lecture in print You'll never guess, now, but the truth would ...

A ROMANTIC STORY

... became most anxious not only to see the famous personage but to obtain adminsion into his presence, and to be allowed to speak to him. To do this at first seomed a difficult matter; but, on learning that her hero was to call on businiss at a house where ...

A FEW PLAIN HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS ON TEACHING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN (WELSH) COUNTRY SCHOOLS

... another. As long as the ?? encouragement to speak it is confined (as is nowv the case 15 in many places) within -the walls of the schoolroom; where except on extraordinary occasions, it is an offence ,) to speak at all; end where no portion of time is exclu- ...

NATIONAL MUSIC

... either as a scientific man or as ar antifluarin, but to speak of those of its characterihtics and bhltiie, which had enchained him and commianded his admiratioa as a lover of music. And, in speaking of it t:lu, he should not rely so much on tradition as ...

Poetry

... DESPISE NOT THE HUMBLEST. Despise not the humblest, Nor treat with disdain *Tho poor and afflicted, Or cause them fresh pain, Speak not with contempt, Nor deformity blame; But rather be thankful, Thou art not the same. For e'en were it sin To be less nobly ...

Poetry

... DESPISE NOT THE HUMBLEST. Despise not the humblest, Nor treat with disdain The poor and afflicted, Or cause them fresh pain, Speak not with contempt, Nor deformity blame; But rather be thankful, Thou art not the same. For e'en were it sin To be less nobly ...

The Wandering Thespians

... that such pieces as Woodcock's Little ?? the Wandering Thespians can act, but such as The Isle of St. Tropee they cannot. In speaking of the old school afore- said, we mention comedies advisedly, for no one would, surely, sus- pect the Club of having ...

Published: Sunday 10 February 1867
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 906 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture