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... most interesting of the winter flowers s the Christmas rose. From the time of Pliny downwards people have writtenx of i% in poetry and prose, our poets Cowley, Spenser, and Keats among the pumber. Its roots have been used as a poison and m wncantations ...
... again been resumed, several prominent local gentlemen on Sunday morning receiving postcards, on which was some vnderlined poetry. There is nothing very offensive about the postcards, which are intended as a ‘“‘skit’’ on the persons receiving them. Among ...
... a good assembly at the Walmsley Arms on Tuesday evening, when Mr. J. T. Baron, of Blackburn, gave a lecture on “Poets and Poetry of Blackburn,” to the members of the Literary, Philosophical and Debating Society. Mr. J. Clayton presided. The lecturer gave ...
... owners, will receive due consideration in the matter of compensation. Mr. Aitken broke out into poetry over this phrase of the matter, and caused some merriment, which was supplemented by Inspector Garvey, who declared himself a ‘ Home Ruler,”’ but did ...
... Some are weavers and others are good business men and some again are quite as useful to the world when engaged in writing poetry. And I think we should be glad to exchange a gocd many successful business men and company promoters, even for only one Tennyson ...
... be cloaked. Ome of the truest, to my'mmd, of recent times is Collingwood’s ““ Life of Lewis Carroll.” I hardly dare mention Poetry, when such an authority as Dr. Johnson makes Rasselas, Pnpce of Abysinia say, after hearing Imlac’s recital of the qua]ifgcation ...
... Rishton, presided, and the lecture was delivered by the Rev. H. A. Champion, of Blackburn, his subject being ““ The dialect poetry ot America.” The lecture was listened to with great interest, and Mr. Chafnpion interspersed. his lecture with readings in ...
... HOW he loves his | pigeons, and that love shall save him for HIM: }that man rises by love of Nature: another by Music: he by Poetry: she by Prose. Is it not so? Don’t “sark.” But face the point. Granted that: I then went on argumentatively, and not by accident ...
... members in case of punctures, etc., to be left to the discretion of the vice-captain.” Concluding, the compiler bumts into poetry with a quotation which should appeal to all cyclists:— Farewell. cities! who could bear All their smoke and all their care; ...
... world. In Germany a general census is takenm every ve years, as against ten years in Great Brj- “I know I've got a velin of poetry in me, sir,” confidently asserted the young man t, the editor, “and all I want is a chance tq bring it out. What would you ...
... locating quotations, Mr. C. GCrey, Weymouth, writes to the Mail ”:—“Some years ago I searched vainly for the context of a line of poetry. I cailed on my literary friends in vail: Then 1 bethought me of Dr. Garnett. After a moment’s thought he said, ‘I hink I ...
... I think myself, and I am not alone by any means, that the large bust is excessively ugly, and repels men of sentiment or poetry, although it may lure the sensuous and the calf kind of man. A scraggy-chested woman is, of course, in bad health. There is ...