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POETRY

... heard long, long ago, In childhood's radiant spitere,- Soft with ffleotlon's tender woe, These evening sonieds appear. Oh ! speak unto my list'ning soul, Ye aergelis fom above, Let in tmy brenst somne accents fall Of pity and of love ! Hath! over hill ...

THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA

... forms but one picture. Nor does the music in the one compartment interfere with the music in the other, as speaking would interfere with speaking in the case of ordinary dialogue. The -contrast between the mystical, half-voluptuous, half-religious chants ...

THEATRES

... the great personal popularity of Mr. Buckstone, and the respect felt for his talents both as an actor and an author -not to speak of his long and honourable management of the Haymarket Theatre. A charge of two guineas for a stall might under ordinary c ...

Published: Saturday 17 June 1876
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1018 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE BETTERTON DRAMATIC CLUB

... an idea what Queen Mab was like. We will not set down aught in malice, at the same time we will not extenuate, but will speak of Alr Godfrey's pro- duction according to its merits. We would, however, first counsel him to avoid that besetting sin of ...

Published: Sunday 11 June 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 939 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE NATIONAL SCHOOL CLASS BOOKS

... was not alone a scourgo to his religion but to his nationality. Can anyone who bas read her life by Miss Strickland-not to speak of other authors, Protestant as well as Catholic-concur in the eulogy of the poet i Let me hope that in the next edition of ...

MERCHANT SHIPPING AND ANCIENT COMMERCE.*

... two centuries and a half before its time. Three hundred years before the Spaniard's doubtful discovery, our own Roger Bacon speaks of a vessel which, being almost wholly submerged, would run faster through the water against waves and winds than the fastest ...

BORES AT THE PLAY

... above the Care- less Bores, people who do not consider how their cul- pable negligence may affect others. 'We will now speak of another kind of bore-a female one, we are sorry to say. This is the bore who builds up such a mountain of millinery on the ...

Published: Sunday 11 June 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1734 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

STAGE COSTUME

... totally different creation from the con- ception of Shakespeare. The great genius of that accom- plished lady forced, so to speak, an ideal upon the public which it can be plainly seen was inconsistent in many features with the Lady Macbeth of the poet ...

Published: Sunday 04 June 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1678 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MUSIC

... intention to train all her pupils for the profession of music. Of the numerous and variegated items of the programme we must speak briefly. The pihce 0de resistance was the incidental music by Gounod to the national drama of Jeanne d'Arc, brought out some ...

HER MAJESTY'S OPERA

... artistes, he did not exaggerate, and also sang the music with excellent articulation and good tone, so that we are enabled to speak of Signor Fio-ini as a thoroughly successful debutante. Signor Romani as Basiho was clever, and the Figaro of Signor Del Puente ...

Published: Sunday 11 June 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1057 | Page: 14 | 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 

THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION IN PHILADELPHIA

... pearlswith corals, and diamonds i w with corals, all of which have been selected by Mr. I L Gibson with the greatest care. We must speak of two othar bracelets, beautiful enough to be worn by Venus. One a band of .matched harlequin opals, studded with cross bars ...