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MUTE HARLEQUINS

... coarseness, as in all that Aphra Biehn wrote; but we are coming to the English Harlequin directly. His name was Jevons, a speaking Harlequin, and a very clever fellow indeed, with something of the Vokes Family; some- thing of Fred. Evans, something of ...

Published: Sunday 07 May 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1715 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

AMATEURS AT ALDERSHOT

... Warren (81st Regiment) was Ernest Waldburg, and supported the character in an easy and agree- able manner. This gentleman speaks distinctly,. and is audible all over the house, which is not always the case here, the acoustic arrangements being far from ...

Published: Sunday 02 July 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 505 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MUSIC

... purpose and no inconsiderable skill in artistically rendering his inten- tions. Not havina seen the score of the work, we can speak only of our impression after a single hearing; perhaps we may return to the Magnificat on a future occasion. The following ...

MR. STOPFORD BROOKE'S LITERARY PRIMER

... What, again, would a child learn by being told that Spenser was full of Christianized platonism ? On page 73 Mr. Brooke speaks of some of the love poems of the latter part of the sixteenth century as possessing a passionate reality, others a quaint ...

DRAMA

... impicates $ th orising in the west of I E lpad in l; 1 asd th0 inci4enit of th Etrl of Feyve- ?? ?? toobtain apardon, not to speak of the name S Welthorp, uigne~d h9 ,po~of tho.,laroters, ?? the nonie one of . the pear4ons Whoim the w1w QbaXgca with hbarburing ...

THEATRICAL NOTES IN THE UNITED STATES

... the acting in general, llicbi, taken as a whole, we should judge to be less stiff and fornial than in England. We are not speaking, be it under- stzoo, of the 'stars, but of the host of minor characters whose e iciency is so important in attaining a ...

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... married, and all is changed. From that time until she bears a child, she never-speaks to any one but her husband, and then only in private. After she becomes a mother she 'may speak to her mother-in4awfrst, and, after the lapse of certain; periods, 'to her ...

BLACK SPIRITS AND WHITE

... carry you off to a warm climate for the winter. Then the woman's voice murmured a reply, and the man exclaimed, Pray don't speak so ! You know that you can believe in my affection for you, do younot? MIrs. Flint here gave a loud and elaborate cough in ...

THE WORKS OF STRAUSS.*

... estimate which he forms of his character or of special events; but there is no doubt about his honesty and conscientiousness. He speaks because necessity is laid upon him ; he writes, not to increase the number of books, but because he believes he has a message ...

MISS VIRGINIA VAUGHAN'S READINGS

... tone of the traigedy queeis to realise our idea of the m1anliel iel whieb this exqui ite psesn should be recited. Shelley speaks of Lnnpresleditated art, but iliss Vaughans's art did nto coscesal itself suffiliently. The entire p.oeim, fill of subtle ...

Published: Sunday 03 December 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 663 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

BLACK SPIRITS AND WHITE

... That does not matter. It matters a great deal! Why do you speak so, tEnone? It is not kind to those who are interested in you. The Czernovics are really devoted to you. Why should you speak in that tone ? Tell me, at least, what harm you think can ...

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... land. For my own part I have, in the House of Comnna's and else- vhere, whatever miy inward impression might be, declined to speak sirongly oa these atrocities, until there was both clear and responsible evidence before in I Fo tranS of this evidence, I ...