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MISS GENEVIEVE WARD & MR. W. H. VERNON IN AUSTRALIA

... of all external impressions, and the attention is concentrated upon a dominant idea. Altogether, it was a great evening. To speak, in the first place, of Mr Vernon's Macbeth. It was a picture of Macbeth roughly yet vigorously outlined, his animal courage ...

Published: Saturday 01 November 1884
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1689 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE MUSICAL ARTISTS' SOCIETY

... music, which was heard for the first time. We speak advisedly in referring to the score, because unfortunately the male voice chorus spoiled the work. There were about forty gentlemen, and we could not speak of them as Wordsworth did of the, cattle, forty ...

Published: Saturday 13 June 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1625 | Page: 16 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MISS EMILY FAITHFULL IN AMERICA

... and speak foreign tongues, and to be received in their little circle as young ladies.' None of them could cook or make butter and cheese, as their mothers and grandmothers did. Miss Faithiull takes a practicalview of the question, and she speaks out ...

Published: Saturday 08 November 1884
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1567 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MATERIALS FOR MADIÆVAL GREEK HISTORY

... Scotland by the Saxon form Churcih, but who do not object to speak of it by the Angliar form Kirk. The Emperor John speaks only of nos et imperium nostrum; some of the other Imperial documents speak of imperatia nostra, a stately form and not easy to translate ...

CRITERION THEATRE

... adapta.- tion from a German piece played in Berlin under a similar title, but the adapter, of whom we shall have occasion to speak later on, has ?? the scene of his comedy, and the action takes place near an hotel et one of the lisies. Curiosity is soon ...

Published: Sunday 28 November 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1571 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

ACTORS AND CRITICS

... returns o tihe subject :- I must tell you that in my last article I have caused 7ciriright disasters . . .. no, I must not speak of that in joke. For I hav felt real pain from having inflicted it myself, without suspecting it, without having a notion of ...

THE HANDEL FESTIVAL AND ITS CONDUCTOR

... interpret. I found him just leaving the Palace after conducting 'the usual morn- ing concert. He has an easy and pleasant manner, speaks admirable English, despite his Pomneranian birth, and his utterance is rapid and incisive. MR. AUGUST MANNS. Does the Festival ...

A CHAMPION OF CHRISTIANITY

... down In youth or in manhood's prime? Or doult if this tyrant of evil fame, Malignant almost to insanity Was wisely chosen to speak in the name Of State-bought Christianity ? Well, let the Church go on as it will, Showing its hate of the masses; Little wre ...

THE DUTCH PLAYERS

... both to specify-the Dutch troupe speak their language so as to offend no really trained ear. We take exception, though, to their vulgar brouswen (burring) of the ris. Have Zeeland peasants come to this, that they speak their manly idiom with stilted French ...

Published: Sunday 13 June 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1196 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE SEASONS FASHIONS

... or, to speak more precisely, on somebody else's hair, which is piled up high above her head. The parasol is, doubtless, a deputy bonnet, performing, when not needed as a prop, the functions of shade and shelter, which should, rationally speaking, be the ...

COURT LIFE BELOW STAIRS.*

... implies superficial study, which is scarcely less evident in Mr. Molloy's occasional allusions to eminent men. His mode of speaking about Hoadly and Samuel Clarke indicates at least an oblivion of the fact that they were the two most eminent writers of ...