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Mr. TOM TAYLOR and the DRAMA in LEEDS

... community. (Hear, hear.) And he said this in Leeds, knowing that he was speaking in the teeth ui the prejudice of a powerful and influential body among them; knowing that he was speaking in the presence of a Proprietor of the principal paper amongst them ...

Published: Sunday 13 July 1873
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1087 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MR. HOLMAN HUNT'S NEW PICTURE

... withlthefurthei'advau- tago that they can speak and see, which Mr. Hunt's, ad- mirable as they are, cannot. Nothing is omitted in this picture but the soul of it. The artist is, or should be, a mau who speaks to men, whether in paint or marble, in verse ...

THE TONGUE NOT ESSENTIAL TO SPEECH.*

... own practice and observa- tion to speak very positively on this point. Sir James Paget, especially, has performed the operation of excision of the tongue on six individuals, all of whom were able afterwards to speak well and quickly; the lingual sounds ...

THE LANGUAGE OF THE FUTURE

... Channel Islands the same reasons, apart from all linguistic considerations, exist for speaking and studying English instead of French which existed in Alsace for speaking and studying French instead of German. French is so much simpler than German, and English ...

SIR FRANCIS GOLDSMID ON CENTRAL ASIA.*

... works of others. And Sir Francis Goldsmid has particular claims, barred, we believe, solely by his own uncommon modesty, for speaking with authority upon the subject he discusses. He has been for some time at the head of the Persian telegraphs, a purely British ...

DRAMA

... as a cook, who attends at dinner table with all the voluble activity of a tavern waiter, and who shouts his orders down a speaking pipe with the stentorian energy of the proprietor of a City luncheon bar. There is also ?? 'pretty music in the piece, of ...

DIRÆ

... rot; Thou hast washed thine hands and mouth, saying, Am I not Clean ? and thy lips were bloody, and there was none To speak for man against thee, no, not one This hast thou done to us, Iscariot. Therefore, though thou be deaf and heaven be dumb, A ...

LITERATURE

... poison 'tis replete, And gall Is not more bitter. There pride and jealousy are sown, There hatred's worst incentive- Speak to my heart, speak thou alone, Thy servant is attentive. 'Tis true thy voice inflicts its wound- It has its accents burning; But hearts ...

THE HONOURABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY'S

... difficulties with his arms, those awkward appendages, which will interfere with the comfort of amateurs. Whenever he had to speak he quietly folded them, and perhaps, as he could not get rid of them altogether, this was the safest course to adopt. The Don ...

Published: Sunday 25 May 1873
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 765 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Miss EDITH GRAY as Juliet, at the Theatre Roy

... words she speaks, and is at - to make her audience appreoiate them too. If ahe goes sometimes tradition. you believe it is not from ignorance but from inteation, to by herself or directed by her teachers. Thus wre cannot, indeed we not speak of her performance ...

Published: Sunday 13 July 1873
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 786 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE OLD MASTERS.*

... believe there exists any class of readers standing in need of such a book, or to which it can be of service. The writer herself speaks of the work as being for the use of learners and outsiders in art. What manner of persons outsiders in art may be we ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... grean,tet amusement to the juveniles, as their cheery laughter amply testifies. 1 iI&TUIXAL CfElZ-ONAT. A letter from Moscow speaks of the extraordinary success neaieveiL by Madame Nilsson in that city and in St. PeterEbuvg. She has been called before the ...