... THE LITERARY EXAMINER. Letters of the Earl of Dudley to the BishoP of Liandaff. John Murray. In rather a clumsy preface the Bishop of Liandaf states that the letters of Lord Dadley were printed and advertised a year ago, but that the publicatlon was suspended ...

... Dickens's house. Sending in his card, as an American, he is admitted into the author's study, and finds him sitting in a large arm-chair, by his table. When the American has in some degree recovered from the unbounded astonishment he may be supposed to have ...

... We have had nothing so great as the revival of King John. We have had no celebration of Eng- lish History and English Poetry, so worthy of a National Theatre. Among Shakspeare's kingly chronicles, John stands apart. It is the earliest in time, and on the ...

... to ling this about, but they chmnrn gravely and shyly to their sisters, till I hit upon making certain long- legged, stiff-armed figures, which I cat out of card-, medi- ators between us. At sight of these the little ones began as it were to thaw, and ...

... about on that memorable hill, for he knew not how long, ?? on the backs and shoulders, faces and arms of the people?' And there, in the company of Mr Henry Grattan, 'tri- umphant and squeezed, compressed and fettered,' did he not breathe for a time that ' ...

... discussion and of bearing arms in the nat onal defence, to the small Protestant minority of a Roman Catholic people. What better fate might better signalize the eternal quarrellings and dissentions of the Floods and Grattans. The Liabilities incurred ...

... seized her arm, raised her up, and in a few words rewarded her for all she had suffered during.the last fortnight. 'You at my feet, countess,' said he. 'It is I who should be, and who always wish to be, at yours.' Then he extended his arms to her, following ...

... nt to me. Brave old gentleman-we hope not. Of that same agricultural protection, by the way, Sir Robert can say, as Grattan said of Irish liberty, that he stood by its cradle and followed its hearse-with the not unimportant difference that the funeral ...

... Western Circuit, a friend of William Adam's, Francis Horner's, Manners Sutton's, and other distinguished men, a fellow of St John's in Cambridge, of good reputation as a scholar and fair ability as a lawyer, but with a practice so moderate and little likely ...

... likely to have a conversation in Parliament, I am pretty authentically informed, of even a more delicate nature than the last ; John Rolle intending to bring forward his old subject of Mrs Fitzberbert. Rolle and Sheridan had a whispering conference under the ...

... zeal was much increased by the conversation and ex- ample of two of my companions and contemporaries in particular- John Symmons and John Conybeare. Conybeare had no great depth of learning, for he had not the necessary diligence; but he had quick natural ...

... throughout, the want of strength and steadfastness of purpose which he considers to have been manifested by the ministry. Sir John Burgoyne's opinion of the inability of the Turks to defend the Danube or even the line of the Balkan against Russia, caused ...