... verbal accent .and is one of sins of English composers, even when they are successful conveying the general expression of the poetry. Dear Italy, to us, is the least pleasing of these compositions. The light and tripping air, with its florid accompaniment ...

... s) series of pleasing sounds calculated to tickle the ear without reaching the heart. It is an adjunct and interpreter of poetry, of which it enhances the beauty and deepens the expression. It is earnest, animated, and emphatic recitation; but it is this ...

... counties, towns, and villages; knows all about population, property, and electors; reads through all poll books as if they were poetry or periodicals; can tell you who's who at the Land's End, how he camc by his qualification, and what he thinks of political ...

... heavy annual expenditure, in the shape of organist; that, after all, the music of the human voice, eloquently uttering the poetry of the church in full harmony, far exceeded the sound of the pipes and whistles of the mechanical instrument: and that, if ...

... by the very easy method cutting W Lee's prose sentences into very bad blank verse. '''■ of the worst faults of Lord Byron's poetry, with few of its redeeming qualities. The plot crude an adjusted, the characters' repulsive and unnatural, language poor and ...

... Thorns >n, who wrote poems still held in high estimatio l, cal'cd The Seasons, and it was still customary for admirers of poetry to ask, which of Thomson's Seasons do you prefer ? But that question wis never asked relative to George Tho npton, for he ...

... presen'c our readers with the following beautiful sonnet, by his talented sister, Mrs. Sargant, published in small volume of poetry, about the year 1818:— to brotheh. Ob shall I e'er again that fece behold, On which enraptured I could ever dwell: Again ...

... composers sought for inspiration in Macpherson'g pseudo-Celtic rhapsodies; and their music, generally speaking, was worthy of the poetry. F. Lablache produced great hilarity by his animated delivery of a comic song from the Cenerentola; and Mr. T.'Cooke's ...

... has progressed this year. There 3d deal of nature in his pictures, but they want force and vigour, and are totally devoid of poetry. Balfourier studies conscientiously; he may improve. Malathier has fallen off; he has become mannered; and, lastly, little ...

... Dictionary. Finally, the last and best Owen's Welsh and English Dictionary * as also the last and best of Walter's Welsh. Then, in poetry, the first Southey's collected works is wanting ; at all of Keats, of whose most popular no copy whatever in the library ...

... being written for a tenor voice, while Pishek's a baritone: but the classic purity his style, his beautiful reading of the poetry, and the impassioned fervour of his expression, render his performance of this song superior to that of any other singer have ...

... rests, and is, believe, generally considered on thc Continent thc best of his works. The subject drawn from that rich mine of poetry and romance, the History of thc Crusades, and is wild tale of love and war, crime and fanaticism,— full of impassioned ...