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AMATEURS AT THE ALEXANDRA THEATRE

... which Mr West- lake was requested by his kind friends in front to speak up, so that they could hear him. Mr Westlake seemed rather depressed in spirits, and could not or did not speak up. His appearance was gentlemanly, and that is as much as we can ...

Published: Sunday 05 July 1874
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 738 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

POETRY

... word He spoke, who speaks no more, And sacred be that sleep the nightingales sing o'er! True teacher, friend, and brother, Farewell, beloved heart ! Where shall we find another? Yet wherefore? Here thou art, From thy fresh grave to speak, who hast but died ...

MR. ROSS NEIL'S DRAMAS

... circumstances fitted to call forth strong passion they speak passionately, and many lines of eloquence and of poetical feeling will be found in these plays. The dragntis personce speak poetically, but they speak also consistently with their position; and it is ...

Mdlle NITA DE CASTRO, Prince of Wales Theatre, Birmingham

... 27th, 1S74. The Fern Fairy, as impersonated by Seiiora Nita de Castro-who, although she bears a foreign name, speaks capital English, and speaks every word distinctly--is an excellentand graceful chararter all through the piece. With a voice of great power ...

Published: Sunday 15 March 1874
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 665 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MUSIC

... (also conducted by Mr. Charles HlaU6) the week before .last. Of the work in its entirety we shall have occasion again to speak, in noticing its production by the Sacred Earmonie Society in the course of the current season. 33ach's sublime oratorio was ...

MR. GIBSON'S PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE, AND REVELATION.*

... would have been not that the serpent could speak, but that the rest of the animals could not or would not speak. Mr. Gibson .might have mentioned that the belief of the Hindoos that the mncrkeys will not speak for fear they should be made to work like ...

PROFESSOR BLACKIE ON SELF-CULTURE.*

... assumes an authority which becomes offensively arrogant, nor a geniality: which becomes offensively familiar. He speaks out freely as a man speak- ing to free and reasonable men; and it is good to listen to words so delivered, whether in the particular instance ...

WAGNER AGAIN!*

... Wagner learned, in listening to another man's opera, to expect the worst; and with such an air of conviction do the Wagnerites speak of Schopenhauer as belorging to themselves that one feels now and then inclined to ask whether they suppose him to have had ...

THEATRICALS IN AUSTRALIA

... played at home, the furniture set alone beiog estimated as wcrbh betwveeni s700 aisd g800. It would be imipossible for me to speak in too high teraics of praise for the able mianner in which Ahr Dasscpier as Juliatc Gray, and Mliss Eleanor Carey as Mercy ...

Published: Sunday 26 April 1874
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1393 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... Ivan at Alexandrovna to suffer some more horrible death. Prince Serebrenni was one of the few who dared to oppose them and to speak the truth to Ivan; he is represented as brave and honourable in a high degree. We follow him through a very chequered career ...

NEW NOVELS

... weakening and emblematical of bondage, and how she betrays her sex when speaking to another girl of love as her auditor, mere creature of instinct as she is, feels that only a girl could speak-all this is well and strikingly told, and affords room for many subtle ...

Published: Saturday 28 November 1874
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1348 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

IMPROMPTU DRAMATIC CLUB

... more previous study. On more than one occasion the piece appeared likely to come to a dead stop from a doubt as to who was to speak next, and perhaps the worst of these hitches occurred, curiously enough, directly after Joe Speirrit had said Now we're tooling ...

Published: Sunday 18 October 1874
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 762 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture