POETRY

... A DREAM. I saw ml lost love yesternight, ?? love thbt died long ypears ego- She wore at robe of virgin white, And oaher heid a crown of light. bhe pressed her cloy-cold lips to mine, And breelthed onl oe with icy breath, And spolie is accents sweet and low, And esid, Isi life, I re, I was thine, And thee wilt ?? be mine ill dcath.' The inornieg light olines pale snd gray, And seh ?? Nvaiished ...

Y GLOEW LYN

... r ALAW-To iad y Dgcdl 31 Mor ?? ydyw'r wybr, Y Mlor dlws vw'r buan lion, DLor ddwyfol brydferth ydyw ef Tra'n gwenul ar y flion, y -wLn sibiolb, add ho!:O; h O lGw8 ymaclaviad :frynd, Tra'n gwybo- fod ihyw obaith am Ail twrdd er gorfod mPyn'd; r Yr oedd y dydd yu gwvenu, Er yn el aogladd piudd, Mewn gobaith adgyfodiad lIon, 0 O blygi91 Yu yn Ibydd, ai Ac yn y ven brudd hono, n Wrth ganu'n iach ...

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF 1871

... INTERNATIONAL EXUIBITION OF 1871. We have received the official announcement of the first of a series of Annual International Exhibitions of Selected Works of Fine and Industrial Art and Scientific Inventions, which is to be opened next year, under the direction of her MAJTSTY'S Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851. The Exhibition is to be open from the let of May to the 50th September ...

Published: Sunday 08 May 1870
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 780 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Music and the Drama at St. George's Hall

... ?? and the Drama. at St. George's Hall. It is pleasant to. witness such an illustration of the existence of amity between different Muses as was presented to view on Wed- nesday evening last at the fashionable place of assembly in Lang- ham-place, where Miss Edith Kingsley as the representative of Enterpe and Miss Marie Somerville who officiated for Thalia gave an entertainment which combined ...

Published: Sunday 01 May 1870
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 906 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

AMERICAN THEATRICALS

... (FRO31 OUst OWN ColassrONDENT.) NEW YORK, AYr1n 30, 1870. \Vse have had many changes of programme and some refroslifng novelties during the week, and while no great sensations have bee-oni brought forward to dazzl the plic gaze, sil think the adjority 1.. el t c rlnglgfrtues t~garere rued l ?? and very of th le oify-goers are atisfie withn the imes of ve Properly. As I feared, Mr. Fcrhaer's ...

Published: Sunday 15 May 1870
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3693 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Miss Rebecca Powell's Dramatic Readings at the Hanover-square Rooms

... Miss Rebecca Povwll's Dramatic Readings at the ]anover-square Rooms. Among the multitude of entertainments now-a-days seeking for public patronage that of Dramatic Readings seems to have taken a thoroughly recognised and firmly established position, and, per- haps, no greater compliment could be paid to the intellectual advancement of the age than the statement of the tact that in all ...

Published: Sunday 15 May 1870
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 617 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... LITER~lTURB. r Bv tie liglht. Ilon. B. Disraeli. l.ordotl PI1igulls. [..EceeNl) NxovrittE. trust that wec nmay be forgiven by a public ri We have learned from an authority a5 rlmlber of the Qrrarrterly ?? that evild3 tie1Z courtesy are on the increase, if WC nl a loving and gratefull spirit to Mr p raelis latest triunmph. The cares of life steo runny areotig Ues, and it is something to eW that ...

A MINGLED WORD OF REMONSTRANCE AND FRIENDLY ADVICE TO SIR SHAFTO ADAIR, BART

... _ Really this is too bad, Robin Adair ! 'Spite six defeats you've had, Robin Adair! Thus to come out anew, Flaunting your dingy hue Before our bright sky blue, Robin Adair! What's it you'd have us do ? Robin Adair! Turn round and vote for you ? Robin Adair! That we will never do; We're too staunch a crew To strike our flag to you, Robin Adair! Down 'with your Yellow Rag, Robin Adair ! That ...

SELECTIONS FROM PUNCH

... SELECTIONS FROM PUNCfl. A& CHARITY FOR GIRLS OF FASH[ION, Of course many benevolent persons must have read w ith interest the reported proceedings of friends and suecrihers to the Orthopiedic Hospital at the ?? festival of that institution on Thursday evening lest, at Willis's Rtooms~ They wvill have been delighted to learn that this useful charity has received 1,681 patients during the past ...

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

... At meeting of the Jockey Club, held on Wednesday, after the races, was agreed to grant a committee of inquiry into the abuses the Turf. Eleven members were selected, but their functions are not to extend to anything in connection with betting. Fuller Pilch, the well-known cricketer, died of dropsy, Canterbury, on Sunday •Tening, in the sixty-eighth year of his age. His greatest achievements ...

WIT AND HUMOUR

... From Comie Pap and ctKtr ttvtretJ.} Imaginary scholars—The pupils of your eyes. Why is two like vice? Became it ends in we-e. When is a newspaper the sharpest ?—When it is li Transported for life—The man who marries happily. The prim-evil forest was situated in the Garden iWkm. The movement that was 44 on foot has taken a Why ii a key like an hoipital ? Became it's fall of lards. Wise men ...

MR. DISRAELI'S LOTHAIR.*

... MR. I: S E. S . II. . In The Life of Lord George Bentinek there is a famous passage with a pomp and circumstance' as stately as the Homeric catalogue of the ships, where the future leader of Conservatism musters the Tory gentlemen of England.' Conspicuous in that muster roll for the amazement of' a whole' generation stands the figure of the great Protestant champion of Eng. land and ...