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... language with which he speaks of the criminal luxury of the rich, singling out the life and death of John of Gaunt for especial condennation, and his candid reflections on the sins which beset the hedge-priests of Wales. When Ite speaks of the professors of ...

DEAF AND DUMB SPEECH

... acquire language, and is dumb. A child of six years of age who speaks French is removed to England, where it hears no other language than English, and in the course of six months it will speak English with the same facility with which it previously spoke ...

DEAF AND DUMB SPEECH.*

... acqluire language, and is dumb. A child of six years of age who speaks French is removed to England, where it hears no other language than English, and in the course of six months it will speak English with the same facility with which it previously sp oke ...

RECENT POETRY AND VERSE

... actors were certainly not bashful, since Mr. Walburg announces that his own paintings were inspired by genius, and Hector speaks of himself as personally resembling a god. Judging by his quoted lyrics, it cannot have been Phwebus Apollo. Were there nothing ...

Published: Saturday 19 March 1881
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 565 | Page: 23 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

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... ting study of the Roman dramatist to see when he is speaking fr( m his own mouth. Professor Sellar makes out, to the satisfaction, wve c(nture to thinlk, of his readers, that he does often so speak, though he often givcs the impression of being a servile ...

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... e exaggeratioti, ann, so to speak, multiplication, as a source of humiour; anI thle ot1er that both occasionally drop the mask and speak for a fewv minutes ficm the heart. Nothing can be farther from our wish than to speak dis- ]Cspuctfull) of Mr. Clemens ...

MISS ZIMMERMANN'S CONCERT

... he raked with the merely sensational players. She ?? n0 desire to smash the keyboard or to sake the wires jingle, wcllaoto speak simple truth, is what some very celebrated pianists nd mor frequently then is at all agreeable to a cultivated do. Bliss Z ...

Published: Saturday 07 May 1881
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 529 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

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... and the raiscn d'e/re of the great religious bodies which they describe. This is not all easy thing to do. Dr. Ross, who speaks of the Presbyterians, perhaps Pe' foims it best, describing, as he does, things qzuorum Agors f5igg. X Nre shoald rote with ...

CORRESPONDENCE

... one foot planted a little forward, his face almost luminous with intelligence, and the whole attitude vigorous and quite speaking. In the same chapel Dr. Whewell is represented seated-by a lesser hand no doubt-but still looking very much as he looked ...

IRISH POLITICAL BALLADS

... is of the political ballads of Ireland that we now wish to speak. It is curious how very different they are from the political ballads of Scotland; but perhaps it is that, accurately speaking, Scotland has no political ballads of her own. Her ballads ...

RECENT CONCERTS

... pagan-like accompaniments. On both of thes *ivn has lavished all his wealth of fancy, with the most successful If we could speak as highly of the recitative portion we should cc sidcr the whole to be an unbroken success; but the aria parlante form of ...