THE EDINBURGH REVIEW—No. 291

... adopted in not calling Parlia- scent togethier at the earliest period to explain ani asic sanction for the whole business, and speaks of it as ai course -in ie highest degree nuconstitttiouat andinapropesr. lia objects to Govurnmeots or States ralking a ...

LITERATURE

... detestble tricks by which controver- t sialists so often eudeavour to secure fictitious i victories over one another. We cannot speak! 3 too highly of the thorough hdnesty and Christian ll manliness that are apparent in this vonlume, and' we taink we see, all ...

THE SYLVAN YEAR.*

... What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any sensible reality; and, again, speaking of the song of birds, The feeling they reach within us is a poetical and not a musical feeling, and describes a garden ...

THE LANGUAGE OF THE GALATIANS.*

... understanding and answering their inquiries. Only when Lucian comes to speak of visitors coming from a distance, people from Italy, barbarians, Scythians, he mentions those who speak Celtic, and dwells on the difficulty there was in understanding and answering ...

THE READER

... correct pronuncia- tion, namely, by mechanically placing the organs of speech in the same relative position as natives do in speaking their own language. There are twelve sounds thus to be mastered in French, divided under the heads of laryngeal, pharyngeal ...

Published: Saturday 22 January 1876
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2863 | Page: 21 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

CRIPPS THE CARRIER

... were attached to this young lady? Certainly, I am. I would give my life at any moment for her. ' Well, well; I will not speak quite so strongly as you do. Life grows dearer as it gets more short. But still, I would give my best year remaining to get ...

Published: Saturday 22 January 1876
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6104 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... criticism-but an ignorant, presumptuous person, past e all pardaon. Nevertiheless, in a, meek and chastised way, and fir speaking, as it were, with hated breath and under correction, Ale Imsfanetrmy plea. And first I must observe,that ifwe the have in ...

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR.*

... remarkable of his merits. To take but three of those manifold forms and functions of the human mind of which Mr. Forster speaks-wit, reflection, and literary judgment: we find these displayed in the Imaginary Conversations with a wealth and power ...

THE STORY OF A DIAMOND

... precau- tions which he took; but whether it was owing to good a breeding or a natural inclination to mysteriousness, he did not speak of his troubles. From these contradietions v people concluded that MI. de Louvignac was an 'original, which explained nothing ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... afterlaborlons and conscientious Inquiry, without any regard of r persons. As I would speak of a, stranger, I would speak of a fr'eni; and as I would speak of a friend, I would speak of a brother or of a son, of living and of dead alike. There can be no doubt ...

VARIOUS VERSIFIERS

... The Poet's Song is musical, though, perhaps, too obvious an echo. WVaifs and Strays, ' by Caerleon (Provost), is hard to speak about. One does not want to be severe on a young writer, but it would be false kindness to hide the fact that, apart from the ...

Published: Saturday 22 January 1876
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 849 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... lead mining in preference sane other, and thae indisputable logic of facts Iva saaaly supported him. So far back as g he ?? speaking, lead 'oi are the cheapest to work. and quickest to to returns, and, generally, whenever he has occas.on to write about mines ...