THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA

... forms but one picture. Nor does the music in the one compartment interfere with the music in the other, as speaking would interfere with speaking in the case of ordinary dialogue. The -contrast between the mystical, half-voluptuous, half-religious chants ...

THE ANNALS OF TACITUS.*

... times at their command can hardly go far wrong in the meaning of a Latin author; and even if they do, the notes, generally speaking, will give us other versions to choose from. A work of this nature must really, therefore, be judged by its nearness to, ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... policy. The peors heard him In duU and gloomy silence, and not till he had paused, and thrice asked for a reply, did Polydorus speak. You swould inoreaso the dominion of Sparta, Pausanias. IncrsaRe of dominion is waste of life and treaturo. We have few men ...

THE DAYS OF HIS VANITY.*

... interpreted as here. After heading a chapter with one of the most serious admonitions to be found in Holy Writ, the writer speaks flip- pantly of a young lady, lHow good she looks saying her prayers into herpoekethandkerchief. There is really nothing ...

Published: Sunday 29 October 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 852 | Page: 3 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERARY NOTICE

... who made the soul Indestructlble, and the devil who fastened the foul calumny en God of its ever- lsting punishment. Speaking of annihilation, as $'part of the faith once delivered to.the saints, Mr. Hobson says-' As such I hold it, as such I call ...

THE ANNALS OF TACITUS.*

... times at their command can hardly go far wrong in the meaning of a Latin author; and even if they do, the notes, generally speaking, will give us other versions to choose from. A work of this nature must really, therefore, be judged by its nearness to, ...

AN UNMUSICAL POET

... ini Heine's lifetinse. The poet thus speaks of him: H~eis indisputably the artist in Paris who finds the most unlimited enthusiasm, as well as the most cealous opponents. It is a characteristic sign that no one speaks of him with indi! - ference. Without ...

Published: Sunday 08 October 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2781 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

POETRY

... brothmor! Who knoeks ? But I care notl You are come then tit last-you who knew low to spgra not I What words do you mutter-Speak- curse yoa-.forbear not ? Bay, I carse you not- Mine is the vengeance, He saith. T. FsRousos (after Victor Hugo). ...

THE EPIC OF HADES.*

... morning in February, and nothing more; then we are introduced concisely to a ghost (Marsyas), and to others in succession; they speak for themselves, and the spectator remains mostly in the background. The more incredible adventures, as that of Narcissus, are ...

MUSIC

... works from undeserved oblivion may surely be indulged in a slight devia- tion from the straight line of reality. The French speak of corriger lafortune e-wwhy should we not occasionally corriger la rfatlit, particularly if the correction is founded on ...

THE BETTERTON DRAMATIC CLUB

... an idea what Queen Mab was like. We will not set down aught in malice, at the same time we will not extenuate, but will speak of Alr Godfrey's pro- duction according to its merits. We would, however, first counsel him to avoid that besetting sin of ...

Published: Sunday 11 June 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 939 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

HER MAJESTY'S OPERA

... will be cited henceforth as one of the most delightful, sympa- thetic, and natural in her repertoire. We should be glad to speak in equally flattering terms of Mdlle. Von Elsner, who undertook the character of the Princess. It was her first appearance ...