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... puppets whom the machinist pushes and shoves about as suits his exigencies but creatures who have character and think and speak for themselves. This book has vitality in it. Not the coarse animalism which seems to be the sole aspect in which human life ...

BEE DARRELL.—A TALE

... event that she hled nevelr dreanmt of iP her philo- sophy; butijust after the kiss be had left on her lips, she dared tiot speak her thoughts. It was very sweet to her to standl there with a strong arm encircling her waist, atnd with a soft voice murmuring ...

Literature

... Warner, I ertulil not stay here for ever, cent etiting ntyieif with little strolls rotiett the house; jest on parads, so to speak. I Ian here I am; setting out en a forced march. 1 mean to go to r the Hermitoge. I eanitet possibly allow you to go alone ...

THE BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND SHOW AT GUILDFORD

... particularly noticeable, and the pigs deservedly excited the did not admiration of all who saw them, The horses, generally speak- to the big, were numerically rather under the mark but the prize prisoner winners were really good anmals, and amongst ?he ...

INTERNATIONAL RAMBLES.*

... rupture, and a few meagre letters on military operations, have been appended to them. In a letter dated May i, i867, the writer speaks (as he does in a good many other places) of Russia's intention to go to war. This time Russia is apparently going to fight ...

WHO WAS TUNIUS?

... that affords much employment to writers. Of the circumstantial and direct evidence against the Franciscan theorywe need not speak. On the present occasion it is enough for us to say that, so far as evidence of handwriting is concerned, Mr. Twisleton and ...

Published: Saturday 03 June 1871
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2855 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

VARIETIES

... mar-riage, I but dislike to marri-age. An amusing printer's blunder recently occurred in a London newspaper. It had been speaking in the highest terms of a new tenor-a rare avis of a tenor, who had delighted and entranced all hearers. The criticism was ...

THE READER

... With no European rcenipanion, and without ether assistance than was received f om the native missionaries, of whom the author speaks in the highest terms, he traversed the whole of Western China and Eastern Thibet, on the borders of which latter dis- trict ...

Published: Saturday 03 June 1871
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1346 | Page: 15 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERARY

... literary skill very rarely to be met with in books written for the circulating libraries. Its literary shill and the wisdom that speaks through it are, indeed, so great, that it is hard to believe that we have here the work of a novice. George Eliot might claim ...

PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS

... 13.Wan was r tea tragic end vehement as Desepoar Mine RErity Fewler was tterostne Airuastie of the piece. The ferceo 0 7ino Speaks First hae been the afterpiece. Now QUcEFNeSTeiWATR. - A comupany bhaving fur its principal membera Muessrs Waiter Crosby, ...

Published: Sunday 04 June 1871
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 16026 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... all the hot springs 1 geysers-a mistake, he observes, as ridiculous to an Icelander as it would be to us ifl he were to speak of all the rivers of England as Thameses.' The hot springs often increase and decrease in activity, disappearing sometimes ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... which his uncle, balit-maddened by drink and losses in betting, is on the point of destroying, when he imagines the figure speaks, and bids him place the deed, which gives Richard a share in the business, at her feet. Here it is immediately afterwards ...