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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 ...

BARRY SULLIVAN'S TRIUMPH IN AMERICA

... picture in their inmost hearts, and it will haunt the soul forever like the rememberedmusic of a gentle voice that wvill speak no usore. Whatever forms we might apply to the Hamlet of Barry Sullivan would probably be inadequate, as a full expression ...

Published: Sunday 27 February 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 721 | Page: 9 | 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 ...

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 ...

Theatricals at the Lord Chamberlain's

... on the 28th ult., at Ragley Hall, Warwickshire, the seat of the Marquis of Hertford (Lord Chamberlain). The comedietta Who Speaks First ? was performed, after which A Proverb was given, con- cluding with a translation from the French, entitled Tears. Scenery ...

Published: Sunday 06 February 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 882 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

SCRAPS FROM COMIC JOURNALS

... COXSPAION TO E L DAn P1G.-A Spelling Bee. [From Ftsnnzj Fotks.] PATENT PROVEDaBS. ( good deal better than these in common use.) Speak the. truth, and-shook everybody you come near. .A miss is as good as-another miss, and oftan very much hotter. The nearer the ...

MESSRS. GOUGH AND DAVY'S GRAND CONCERT

... singularly distinguish the tones and effectiveness of the greatest living exponent of her special music. We shall preseatly speak more in de- tail of her effortA on the occasion under notice'; but we cannot omit to give this great artiste the principal ...

LORD DERBY'S DOOMSDAY BOOK

... some trifle more, is not in the posi- tion of a landowner in the sense in which Mr. Bright applies the word. What he was speaking of was political land- owners-meaning landowners who not only cultivated an acre of land, but had power to assist materially ...

THE HISTORY OF A CORNISH PARISH.*

... seems to have been bile pzurst. He may not lave heard of the Welsh lump, which sapient mode of forcing Welsh children to speak English had probably a good deal to do with the per- sistence of the Welsh language but he will know all about the latest ...

MUSIC

... enthusiastic way called him on one occasion an angel of a musician. He cer- tainly was dubbed a knight and an R.A., to speak with IMr Browning, but the number of his works which have any chance of immortality is, we are afraid, comparatively small ...

PRUSSIAN PLAYGOERS

... the inhabitants of the former residences, which would be materially affected by the loss of their Theatre, or, more properly speak- ing, by the loss of their subvention. At the head of these Theatres is the intendant of the Royal Theatres at Berlin, who ...

Published: Sunday 27 February 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1400 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Poet's Corner

... head Vos hanging on the vall; It vos the moon vich glistened in U pon the butcher small; And 'en he heard the sheep's head speak His spirits they did fall. Behold, you vicked butcher boy, The evils of your trade - I vos a ewe, and yet through you My useful ...