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MANNERS AND AMUSEMENTS

... humour. It is said that Web- ster has engaged Mr. Macready at a weekly salary of 100, if he performs only four nights, and X1i0 if six nights. Mr. Farrcn is likewise engaged at this theatre at a verv large sa. lary; but smiles seem not to be so dear as ...

Published: Sunday 21 April 1839
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2918 | Page: 3 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... softly creep the winds which stirr'd the Or oxntheir pinions lull'd to slesp, thus dream the hours away; When through the sky the night-bird wings his long and darken'd And feeds upon the earth-horn things, te victims ef his force;- ~There is an holy, hallow'd ...

Published: Sunday 26 December 1841
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3366 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... invigorate the w body, in the fresh night air of August, or else to A tell the tale of love and seek its return, under the te broad green foliage of the trees, or the twinkling y eyes of the deep blue sky of night. it As surely as the hurried music ...

THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... and tinted wvith yellow ;or, if tinged with red, as at seuset, usually seen in an atmosphere of pale yellow. The indigo sky of night has its silver moon, and is studded with golden stars, while the black clouds are ever fringed VAth silvery white. When ...

LITERATURE

... lakes contain ons part water and two parts fish. The only drawback on this industrial conveniency is the darkness of itS sky. The night and day are too nearly of a colour. It strains the eyes to read and to write. Add the coal smoke. In the maanfac. turing ...

MUSIC OF THE FUTURE.*

... forest melody which at first disposed him to devotion, like unto the deep blue sky of night, which at other times attracted his eye, until, being completely absorbed in the night, he beheld more distinctly the countless host of stars. This melody will never ...

THEATRES

... having been light from the northward, and the weather very cloudy in the daytime, but clear or foggy at night. On account of the clearing of the sky as night has come on the radiation of heat from the earth has been very great, frosts having occurred on the ...

Published: Saturday 29 September 1877
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1766 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LORD BRACKENBURY: A Novel

... DRAWN BY LUKE FILDES, A.R.A. The glare of the Brackenbury furnaces reddened half the sky by night, whilst their smoke darkened the atmosphere by day. L ORD BR 4 CKENB UR Y: A Novel. BY AMELIA B. EDWARDS, Author of Barbara's History, Debexham's Vow ...

HAMILTON'S EXCURSIONS

... supply subjects for some delightful pictures. The British Fleet by Moonlight is remarkably well painted, the effect of the sky by night being veryartistically obtained, andthe vessels themselves appearing strikingly real and solid. The instantaneous destruction ...

Published: Saturday 17 November 1888
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1605 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

The Bystander

... interest of our newspapers obscureJ by lengthy speeches, we should have a collection of candidates gLl, g at us from the sky at night. The superior sex is gradually invading every profession, i insinuating itself into every trade, it is nominating itself ...

Published: Saturday 05 November 1892
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1105 | Page: 21 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture