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THINGS IN GENERAL

... said to the surgeon, WVhly, Sir, my sight is sQ had I can't tell wihether that pA; yonder is a pig or a coe .- Portlead (American) Advertiser. TI'on Naw MARRIAGE ACT.-T'1e following return of thS number ofimarriages, under tile New Marriage Act, in th(e ...

Published: Sunday 07 April 1839
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1652 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

LITERATURE AND ART

... were dot ashamed to receive. Ile is now dressed itl the richest robes, his exploits are registered by the heralds, and the minstrels celebrate his ?? tournament is engaged in, called the lance for the ladies, where the parties, if possible, exceed their ...

Published: Sunday 25 August 1839
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4460 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THINGS IN GENERAL

... unto my wife my brown best bed, with the furniture. It is proved by William Buytle, 22nd of July, 1616. The will of the minstrel of Peradise is a nunnupative one, taken by his daughter, the great poet being blind. Tile will of Napoleon is signed in a ...

Published: Sunday 24 November 1839
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1581 | Page: 10 | Tags: News 

LITERATURE AND ART

... very effectively drawn, in par- ticular that of the poor half-witted, yet faithful and simple- hearted being, Pierre, the minstrel,which, in its main features, is strictly an original personation. The snatches of song with which he beguiles his way are ...

Published: Sunday 24 November 1839
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4846 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE AND ART

... eights-nine thousand three hundred tons, andn five hundred and twenty.four American ships, or to, hundred and twentyrsix thousaisd four hundred tons et is dim'erent with the British American and West Indian colonies, where nst only the exports, but also the t ...

Published: Sunday 24 May 1840
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 8446 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE AND ART

... n of such arti- cles as Toe Report of Carlyle's First Lecture on Hero Wor- ship, and those on Sir John Eliot and American Literature, we are inclined to conjectore that the Editor has determined on raising the character of isis publication, and ...

Published: Sunday 21 June 1840
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 8297 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE AND ART

... song; Nor windering harper,'lonelv and ill-starr'a, Cheer'd by some castle's chief, and barbour'd lone Nor Scott's o Last Minstrel, in his trembling lays, Woke with a warmer heart the earnest mced of praise! The Dream is the first; indeed, the principal ...

Published: Sunday 02 August 1840
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6978 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE AND ART

... his people. s An anecdote, highly honourable to his sense of public duty, is mentioned on the authority of Stevenson, the American envoy in London. Some extraordinary occurrence having called a French statesman to the palace as late as two o'cluck in the ...

Published: Sunday 15 November 1840
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 7211 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE THEATRES

... her fertile plaits; And deeds of arms, by warriors native-born, Were, by the proud usurpcrs laughed to scorn. So, in the minstrel art, our simple sires, Basking at ease around their festive fires, Strtck with well-practised hand the trembling string, ...

Published: Sunday 29 November 1840
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2318 | Page: 2 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

CHRONOLOGICAL REGISTER OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF 1841

... the Bristol and Gleucester l Railway, 23. The American President's Message is ?? of despatches, containing tile opening of the French Chambers, ' and the important protest ef the 1'rench press. 31. The American papers, by the Acadia. state that the Pre- ...

Published: Sunday 02 January 1842
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2910 | Page: 12 | Tags: News 

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... founded on Dr. Bird's American nosel of. Nick of the Woods. The drama is ex- ceedipgly well adapted, and the stirring incidents and pic- turesque scenery of. the tale very ably portrayed. A Mdr. Salry Williams, of the American theatres, enacted a regular ...

Published: Sunday 22 May 1842
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 7895 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... vallev and founding pious at nihaitsble estalhlishbuents. The European press has in- lonilJ us oi tie seacess of these young minstrels, who, some- ti'at the cfourt, iii the thentres, and in the parks of soue- rt.ns-srnnntitnnrs in the churcites, seminaries ...

Published: Sunday 18 September 1842
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 7031 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture