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... deeper meaning than lies on the surface,but it is a poetical, not a moral meaning; and to suppose from the lines in which he speaks of discovering vistas of solemn beauty round his fireside that Keats was penetrated by the creed of Wordsworth, who found ...

PRINCE HUGO

... of Rodavia, where Madame ma femme is keeping her stately Court. As may be guessed, he and his wife disagree. When a hero speaks of his wife as worthy we know how wide the gulf must be between them. The Princess hated music, and Hugo complains that ...

THE READER

... and active man again. He has become a New South Welshman; and, loving the land which has given him a new lease of life, he speaks with a loving friend's freedom. Ile wants to move the young, with whom lies the future of the country, to take broader views ...

Published: Saturday 03 April 1880
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1827 | Page: 20 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... Lamb, De Quincey, Barry Cornwall, Hazlitt, and Carlyle. Yet with most of these he lived on terms of intimacy. The gentle Elia speaks of his capital prose, and amidst the galaxy of talent and genius that contributed to the 1ondon Magazine, James Weathercock ...

OUR FUTURE HIGHWAY

... various races he was brought into contact with he was most favourably impressed by the Armenians. Of their rivals the Greeks he speaks in disparaging terms, assailing not merely the present generation but their ancestors also: More stupendous works are undertaken ...

LATEST TELEGRAMS

... Ferry were the platform. After a complimentary speech from the chairman, Professor Nordenskjold read slowly, for does not speak French iluentlv, a summary of his voyage, and iiaid was shortl}' goins out again, hoped have a French sailor with him, which ...

RECENT POETRY AND VERSE

... and what is meant to he humorous is sadly depressing ; the blank verse would seem to show immaturity. And, when Mr. Elford speaks of Otway's Isabel as being to the original as Hyperion to a satyr, did he perhaps mean exactly the opposite of what he says ...

Published: Saturday 03 April 1880
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1271 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

EASTER AMUSEMENTS

... a also gives a very lively and grotesque represens- atation of a stag Irishman. Mr. Baker proves him- self very clever in speaking broken English in an Iamusing way. The plot of the Piece, which consists in the efforts of the villain to re-t venge himself ...

THE STAGE AS A PROFESSION

... why Mdacready, in the height of his fame, spoke so dubiously of the Stage as a Profession ; and Compton, in his letters speaks repeatedly of the uncertainty he always felt as to whether lie should keep the position lie had won, or whether ill-health ...

Published: Sunday 04 April 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1776 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

P RO[ V I N C( I A 1

... Monday to welcome Mr and Mrs Knight on their return visit. Otto is an admirably played piece, and it is indeed difficult to speak too highly of cthe performance, CLn TiuEA=t ROYAL.-Sanagers, Messrs George and James Macready Chute.-Mr Win. Duck's Ceurtsrlep ...

Published: Sunday 04 April 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 12765 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LONDON THEATRES

... T. Sidney made an amusing sketch of Tihthorpe, an old hand at the soapworks promoted to the dignity of livery. Tib- thorpe speaks of a visitor as being in the yawl, instead of the Hall. Bliss Lilian Cavalier as Norah acted with much graceand refinement ...

Published: Sunday 04 April 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 18418 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

VAUDEVILLE THEATRE

... unstinted, and ve suppose deserved, commendation from all who have had opportunity to forsi an opinion conceoriing it. We can speak olly of that which we see, ;ciad we regret that we are compelled to say of CoRbets that it by no means fulfils the anticipations ...

Published: Sunday 04 April 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1727 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture