Poetry

... I'm sore perplexed - The last one proved his doctrine true, But so too will the next. TIIEOLOGIST. ?? one avers-nor doth he speak As doubting, or afraid- That In six days, in one short week. This world was ' perfect, made. GEOLOGIST. Another there with ...

EXHIBITION OF WORKS BY THE OLD MASTERS

... later manner, and this is confirmed by a remark of Mr. Dennistoun in his interesting MIslemoirs of the Dukes of Urbino. Speaking of the extant portraits of Federigo, lie says, E I saw at Florence in 1845 an interesting but ruined picture painted on ...

ADAMNAN'S LIFE OF ST. COLUMBA.*

... several places where the meaning has been quite mistaken. For instance, in the last chapter of Book II., where the author, speaking of a pestilence, says that it prevailed in Italia et ipsa Romana civitate, these last words are rendered by the Roman ...

EXTRACTS FROM THIS WEEK'S PUNCH

... been completed, and we understand that . other pevesois are likely to be proreesed against. aLs Our Kirkwall correeponslent, speaking of the above e- charge, eays-This ease gives rise to a most important Be question as to the Customs regulations for the ...

LITERATURE

... striutlv apposite to a notice of the 0ook before us. Ur. Afax MEuller writes evidently under leep feeling as he says, in speaking of his own loss, I leel as if anotlier cable had snapped that tied me to this Vospitable shore; and he thus spsaks of the ...

ENGLISH OPERA AT THE AMPHITHEATRE

... heart, given by M~r. Packard, the first net last evening closed writb a tuneful and piquant waltz-like duct, Well,if Imust speak mymind, t which was sO well given by MSiss Gaylord and blr.1 Santley as to evoke a call to the front. Thp ?? fentures of the ...

FORSTER'S LIFE OF SWIFT.*

... with his two periods of residence at Moor Park, the first of which began almost immediately after he left college. Macaulay speaks of him as an eccentric, uncouth, dis- agreeable young Irishman, who had narrowly escaped plucking at Dublin, and who attended ...

THE 'WASPS' OF ARISTOPHANES.*

... caricature. But it is in his power-though, no doubt, an extremely difficult task-to reproduce somewhat of the physical fun, so to speak, of the scene-of the mere go of its pantomimic buffoonery; and thereby to enable us to realize to some slight extent the ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... metaphysical theories of pro. l atestantism or Deism, and where he deplores the lmental rre'sction' of the 'Renaissance, -an speaks of it as, inspiring r men with such irrational admiration for Antiquity as 6 entirely to ignore the Fvocial auperiorit ...

From Fun

... he been breached when he discovered a rapid method of converting pennies into peg-tops, and at the age of thirteen he could speak with experience upon gunpowder as au active agent in the rapid removal of eyebrows. Aisyeearswore on and he attained the only ...

CRIPPS THE CARRIER

... peeping, safe in the gloom of the entrance-hall; while the lady of the house came forward bravely in the lamp-light. I will speak to you presently, Joan, said the Squire, as he vainly searched, with a falling heart, for some dear face behind her. Here ...

Published: Saturday 08 January 1876
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4199 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

New Novels

... -particularly Nevil's uncle, the stout Lord Romfrey-that we should like to say had we not already exceeded our limits. In speaking of it as disappointing, we compare Mr. Meredith, as he has a right to be compared, with himself on former occasions, and ...

Published: Saturday 08 January 1876
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1174 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture