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HER MAJESTY'S OPERA

... has possessed for some past not, indeed, the exclusive right, but certainly the exclusive power of representing. We were speaking just now of the decline of the tenor considered as a thoroughly popular and sympathy-enlisting artist. Quite as note- worthy ...

REMINISCENCES OF FEN AND MERE.*

... considerable assistance from his pen. A Cheap Jack, though he may have retired several years from the profession, is not likely to speak of his maiden literary work, or of giving his system free scope for development, or of owning a soft impeachment. Neither ...

LITERATURE

... misery drag thee down. Avaunt, pale phantom.! 'Tis the victor King Waves off thy shadowy dart and guards thy prey.' Speak, MIarie! speak to me! But what so highly gifted a dramatist would have achieved in the domain of pure art uninfluenced by the literary ...

Our Illustrations

... mean respectively, Blue Spotted, Hickory Wood Split, and Great Arm. The captain, it seems, is the only English- speaking Indian in the lot. As the La Crosse players are about to make a tour of the principal towns in great Britain and Ireland ...

Published: Saturday 03 June 1876
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3533 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Cripps the Carrier

... Not a word will I speak again until I have your leave. I calls it onhandsome of your Worship to say that; being so contrary of my best karaksteristicks. Your Worship maneth all things for the best, I am pursuaded ; but speaking thus you drives me ...

Published: Saturday 03 June 1876
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6338 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MUSIC

... his too exclusively musical organisation. From detailed criticism of the present work we purposely refrain, being able to speak only from the impression of a single hearing. The first movement opens with a short leuto leading to an allegro moderato, in ...

MISS GENEVIEVE WARD IN DUBLIN

... accompanied ii such a way 'hat the wvords are melodious beyond the power of expression. The whole of Miss Ward's acting aud speaking was superb, and at her exit the audience were not deterred by the singing of the chorus from according loud and prolonged ...

Published: Sunday 04 June 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1173 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... shiple youth, in the first Bush of selihooe Snol eills to poiets, easily picked up on my sen- siidies, and traveolig, so to speak on my shape I And Where alllI 0owv? °iheo aniswvers vherem' and passes for s eatheel yo Peter, I leave you to-night, wretched ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... work ns a profession; any- how, soine of them vereie regnar molly-coddles. I r~mem- lcr driving over these very downs you speak of 6ae cold winter, and my gmiard wrns frequently coming over the roof to me, and asking me if I didn't think it very cold ...

AMATEURS AT LADBROKE HALL

... notion of the requirements of the part; there too is Robert Brierly, the Lancashire lad, represented by Mr R. H. Maclure, who speaks a very mixed dialect, in which the regions of Cockaigne are not altogether forgotten. He puts his shoulders up into his ears ...

Published: Sunday 04 June 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1011 | Page: 3 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LONDON THEATRES

... great attraction was Leah, with Miss Julia Seaman in the title-role. We have so frequently had occasion in these columns to speak in the highest praise of this gifted lady's abilities that we need only add that the character was most faithfully rendered ...

Published: Sunday 04 June 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2203 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

VERDI'S NEW OPERA

... with the work of Msyerbssr. We shall take another opportunity to analyse the music ; in ties meantime it is only justice to speak of the very beautiful and complete scores just published by Messrs Ricordi of Milan. There is a vocal acd pianoforte editiec ...

Published: Sunday 04 June 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1727 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture