... it not true ? Is it not the fact that for the last hundred years neither in England nor America has there been, strictly speaking, any stage at all ? The best actors have gone back for their parts to the Elizabethan period or to that of English Comedy ...

... out of close etymological discus- sions; and Mr. Palmer indulges largely in miscellaneous literary illustra- tions where he speaks of the word night as sprung from a root meaning destruction, and afterwards of superstitions connected with the West as the ...

... dramatic tenor of the day, would perhaps be too strong for it. He would be like that oak in a china vase which Goethe speaks of in his essay on the character of Hamlet. It suits Signor Pavani well enough; though it would be a mistake to say that the ...

... expecting too much from Italy. Her buildings, for instance, in their entirety will be found inferior to those of England, not to speak of France and Germany. There is no castle in Italy of the importance of Raby or Alnwick; there is no ruin half so beautiful ...

... faces of heroic mould. Indeed, Mr. Colvin himself has admirably distinguished this domestic tendency in Flaxman's genius. Speaking of Flaxman's monumental tablets, he says, He had watched and felt as no one ever watched and felt before the gestures and ...

... invasions of Persia. The greater portion of the collection now exhibited consists of pottery and tiles. Of the tiles we will speak first. The fragments found among the ruins at Rhages, in northern Persia, furnish conclusive evidence of the antiquity of their ...

... situation of the play-that in which the letter passes for a moment into the hands of Sir John Ingram himself-is, comparatively speaking, lost upon the audience. It is surely by a strange oversight of stage management that at this supreme moment Colonel Blake ...

... Regent for having tried to make his daughter a Tory after he himself had deserted his old friends ; and while on this topic speaks of the insidious overtures that were made to Lords Grey and Grenville after the death of Mr. Perceval. Why insidious ...

... those that are indigenous. The compiler has not the most elementary know- ledge of the divisions of the animal kingdom. He speaks of scorpions and tarantulas as reptiles; while oysters, crabs, lobsters, shrimps, and white whales are fish. This reminds ...

... the last and the early part of the current century established the prosperity of our manufacturing system on a sudden, so to speak, and before it was possible that it could be interfered with to any great extent by Government. But in the United States the ...

... , does not keep the traveller so long a time at those enormous elevations. M. Terentyef believes that Sir D. Forsyth was speaking. of one and the same pass, at one time describing it as easy, at another pretending that there were great diffi- culties ...

... hood and cloak of a monk. Coethe introduces him in the apparel of a travelling scholar;. and in the second act Mephistopheles speaks of himself as wearing a red. jacket laced with gold, and a cap with a cock's feather in it-not a scarlet tunic with continuations ...