THE IRISH LANGUAGE

... yezar since, Mr. John Fleming ac- )centuated the fact that in Irish-speAking districts the results fees earned for teachers by pupils are c.ensiderably higher than those in English-speak- ing. He gave in detail the statistics which bore out his contention ...

Poetry

... as laughter on lips that said Nought till the pulse in them beat love's march. But the heart-heat now in the lips rose-red Speaks life to the world, and the winds that parch Bring April forth as a bride to wed Mad March. A. C. SwINBURNNI, in the Academy ...

FREEMAN'S ENGLISH TOWNS AND DISTRICTS

... the lords of the woild themselves. I speak not of Venice or Florence, of Trier or of Ravenna. I speak of cities of a class one degree lower. I speak of the last home of Carolingian kingship on the rock of Laon. I speak of the walls of successive ages spreading ...

IN THE ALSATIAN MOUNTAINS

... and Alsace are concerned. But why make the fact patent in print? The tone of the work, too, is very disagreeable. Mrs. Lee speaks of her dislike for ' thc conceited, domineering Teutons, of the huddled-up Belgians, a ' loose and shambling maidservant ...

FOUR MASTERS OF ETCHING

... exquisite saucers and sword-hilts of Jacquemart. But this is merely 'thc expression of an individual opinion, and Mr. Wedmore speaks so tenderly of the character of the younger master, and so picturesquely of Whi, work, that we have not the least desire to ...

IRISH PIPE MUSIC

... Wbat'er of joy I've known, Bath sprung from thee alone, There's love, life, and blss about thee. Oh ! damsel ever dear, Speak, speak, and let me hear, if vainly this hope I cherish Say, must I drop like him, Whose star set dark and dim, Who left thee in ...

EAST LYNNE AT THE LADBROKE HALL

... we were present on Saturday night would fairly justify us in the use of a far stronger term than that above expressed in speaking of one Hutton, the individual responsible for bringing together a crew of incompetents on Saturday last on to the stage of ...

Published: Saturday 17 November 1883
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 680 | Page: 3 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE ACTOR IN THE PULPIT

... spoken about and recommended in a forcible way. A necessity had been felt from the earliest times to have a class of persons to speak about it with an authority that could not be disputed, and these persons, assuming a part which did not fall to them, naturally ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1883
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 772 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE CHARLES LAMB KENNEY MATINEE

... rather than advances her position in doing so. Our task is a more grateful one in speaking of other items of the performance. Of Mr Macleani's Sir Peter Teazle we can speak with cordial commendation as an example of careful and competent acting, and the ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1883
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1065 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Poetry

... mine. But the hnuse is narrow, the place is bica's Wherc, outside, rain and wind combine With a furtive ear, it I strive to speak, With a hostilo eye at ray flushing check, With a nmilice that masks each word, each sign I O enemy sly and serpentinc, Uticoil ...

MUSIC

... rash but, so to speak, uncourteous. Enough that several passages in the alligro, despite the not very promising character of the themes, must inevitably win instantaneous recognition. About the scherao and finale we are not prepared to speak just now with ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1883
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 646 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

POETRY

... darkness round it thicken, Time, thy uame. Nay. but rest is bhrn of fne for healing, -Se might aeily Time, with voic roprest, Speak: is grief the ?? gift of my draleig ' Nay, bat rest. All tho world is weari je, east and west, Tived wvith toil to wvatch the ...