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SPECIMENS OF EPIGRAM.*

... Here the difference is clear and important. The lyrical poet is suggestive, unsatisfying, and insatiable; the epigrammatist speaks con- clusively and complacently; he leaves the impression that theren'is no more to say. The old-fashioned inscription ...

CURRENT LITERATURE

... 1-A ?? traveller is as one deaf and dumb. I society sae ,also it is a grcat comfort and advanutage. . , , I of 'cople always speak better and more frnkly in at their oun languae.' We are informed a little ab 1fuither on that Yialkasquer, murillo, and (loia ...

LITERATURE

... above the Italian lakes-their Highlands, so to speak -the beauty of such places as the Vall6es Vaudoises, as Recoara, as the mountains of Savoy, or the Val di Bregaglia. The presence of the chestnut speaks of Italy and the kinder breezes, but its growth ...

VARIOUS VERSIFIERS

... as in Death Insurance, a capital version of the old Eastern tale about the quack who promised to make the Icing's donkey speak. These are not, however, his only titles to appreciation ; there is much thought in some of the graver passages. The last few ...

Published: Saturday 04 September 1875
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 520 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

ST. GEORGE AND ST. MICHAEL

... sense of loss in her death, the hearts of the two women drew closer to each other, and protestant mistress Dorothy was able to speak words of comfort to catholic lady Glamorgan, which the hearer found would lie on the shelf of her creed none the less quietly ...

Published: Saturday 04 September 1875
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 8400 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PRESTON EXHIBITION OF WORKS OF ART, INDUSTRY, &C

... signals of Saxby and Farmer reduce mishaps and nothin a disasters to a. minimum-indeed, render them, generaily I caun ~e speaking, impossible. The model includes lines,'waggons, moret A levers, eignals, and everything for f airly testing the inven- Newto ...

THE LONDON MUSIC HALLS

... ais lncomenonly clever girl, sang alld talked of being Stage struck, represented ans old woman who declares that she naust speak her mind, and also appeared as ?? Butcher Boy. Tlhe audience almost went into raptures over this juvenile phenomenon, wlo ...

Published: Sunday 05 September 1875
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2399 | Page: 3 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

TOWN EDITION

... work of supererogation to discuss hero the claims of Mr Boucicault either as author or actor. His success in both characters speaks for itself. His reputation is too firmly established to be shaken by the sneers of the inimical. Hie has been called a dramatic ...

Published: Sunday 05 September 1875
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6519 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... its 200th night at the Vaudeville. This is Independent of the morning verformances at Drury-lane and other places. Tho fact speaks volumes for the good judgment of the managers, and at the same time shows the public appreciation of the most amusing piece ...

RAMBLES TO FAMOUS PLACES

... flesh that melts the bell. if' But hark! Elie key turns in the look, and we enter theI ~e Harcourt Chapel, where everything speaks of the t- 1mighty deed,I ~d A handsome brass tablet tells how nine hundred yeare ,e agone Bernard the Dane, a fair-haired ...

THE NEW NATIONAL OPERA HOUSE

... four months should be reserved for English opera, English ingersi, and Bnglish composers. Neither would the more strictly speaking dramatic art be forgotten for the promotion of which he had sonured t'he co-operation of Mr. Calvert of Manchester whose ...

LONDON SOCIAL LIFE.*

... ion, the British maiden has hardly her equal anywhere. Of the British youth his opinion is naturally not so favourable. Speaking generally of English society, the author says I found everywhere an excessive respect of the individual for the sentiment ...