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THE GUTTER LITERATURE OF THE STAGE

... be all-embracing. Suppose, for instance, that a man were to start to walk from the north of London to the south, and were to pick his way through the filthiest slums of Soho and Drury-lane, and were to print an account of his journey, would that be accepted ...

Published: Saturday 24 October 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 993 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

HUMOROUS GATHERINGS

... what he ought; - I Because he turns'villaidi and traitor. He sins not from need,'but out of mere greed. The crows, after garbage that hanker, And ravens are white-a nice bird is the kite, Compared to the fraudulent banker. - A burglar is bad, and so's ...

THE EXAMINER OF PLAYS

... abandoned rakes, Old comedy wvill live: it dies we find, Seen in the mirror of a muddy mind; 'Tis with the prudes you all should pick a quarrel, Who smirk and say, Old plays are so immoral ! Mr. Scott is perhaps a little too enthusiastic over his author ...

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... butter for the break- fast. Other ehildren had already commenced the day's usual routine of playing in the gutter, and picking up such garbage as might serve to compensate fer the scantiness of the meal whereof they had partaken in-doors. _ Mysteries of the ...

LEONARD LINDSAY

... excitement by the charlatan arts of the Dumnas and Sue school of tic- tion-;noligers, goes clutching and tearing through their garbage volumes with an avidity which leaves him no real thought for the author's work, inasmuch as it is that reader's own nature ...

SOME OF THE MARCH MAGAZINES

... to roost at night. As soon as daylight appeared, they all flew off to their favourite resorts, where they lived upon the garbage of the city; and it must be admitted in their favour that they are most useful scavengers. But when sunset came they used ...

LITERARY NOTES

... The other day, when speak- ing of Sarah Barnum, we noticed American enterprise in catering for this class of literary garbage. However, there is still some sense of modesty left, if the following story, told of a young lady who moves in the very ...

AT THE THEATRE-LIBRE

... homes, machinery not having yet penetrated into Silesia. The overseer, a brutal fellow called Pfeifer, treats them like dogs, picking holes in every yarn so as to cut down the wages. One after the other they cringe to him, asking for a trifling advance, declaring ...

Published: Saturday 03 June 1893
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2961 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... approaching fro nm without. In the villages they are tI meat and Clesn, the Vl.feet being swept, and ail garbage- hi except, indeed, the w, 't--picked bones of their human sub- d, jeets-is threwn oat. t After visiting the house assigned me, I wras taken ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... vermin, their inclled little f`ces bomired by rubbinF tears naay with bands that bad rummased tho cutters and ashpits, picking up garbage. This was tho conditiou in vhich they were insured. Not fiu lne enough- to eat, they woukl vo to their neighbours for ...

REVIEWS

... Between the Tron Kirk and St. Giles narrow closes live down steeply to the Cowgate, and the daring explorer who picks his slippery way over garbage towards that subter- ranean thoroughfare sees overhead only the merest slip of sky. between him and the ?? chimney ...

MANNERS AND AMUSEMENTS

... disposed of. One night, I shall never forget it, I bad been to the opera of San Carlos, and was picking my way to my lodging through the intolerable filth and garbage of the streets of Lisbon, defending myself from the dogs and rats by which they were then ...

Published: Sunday 27 January 1839
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2965 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture