... whole of the winter session, almost every evening is monopolised with some kiad of public meeting or exhibition. There is poetry, and name. and philosophy and history, and every kind of science made easy for all kinds and classes of men, and now and then ...

... the most divine ? The savage would prefer the prayer-book to the epistfes of St. Paul, because more intelligible ; and the poetry of Milton's Paradise Lost would be considered more sublime than the history of the inspired apostle; and Milton's history ...

... / lectures at the Leeds Mechanics* Instituti-n. a a with a voluntary- promise madesouie short time - • lecture, on The Poetry of Pope.** »a» deiivercti day, the day having been altered m>«» thaa»»»K^'* TueshH ...

... d and accom- plished mind in his recent work on the literature of Spain ; Mr. Longfellow, with whose feeling and graceful poetry many must be acquainted ; Mr. Emerson, who has been heard and admired in this country ; and I crown my list with Mr. Prescott ...

... people conspire to bring into cities and houses on this day, making a kind of sum- mer in winter, and reminding us that The poetry of earth is never dead ; because of u_e fine things which the Poets and others have said of it ; because there is no business ...

... OR POEM, _NTrn__> OUR VILLAGE; ResDectfulb dedicated to Miss Mitford, on whose work of the above title it is founded. The Poetry of the Songs by James Simmonds, &c. Admission — Reserved Seats, 2s. 6d. ; Saloon, ls. 6d. ; Gallery, Is.— To be had of the ...

... turrets, and mouldy rooms, whose grim oak pannellings were so singularly suggestive to nervous minds. Then we have that fine poetry of the Old Church Bells — ringing out on the clear winter nights in elfin laughs and fairy songs — rushing along in echoing ...

... POEM, ENTITLED OUR VILLAGE; Respectfully dedicated to Miss Mitford, on whose work of the above title it is founded. The Poetry of the Songs by James Simmonds, kc Admission— Reserved Seats, 2s. 6d. ; Saloon, ls. 6d. ; Gallery, ls. — To be had of the ...

... on a British animal. His very mind is not English in its attainments ; it is a very pic-nic of foreign contributions. His poetry and philosophy are from Greece and Rome ; his geometry from Alexandria ; his arithmetic from Arabia; and his religion from ...

... the best horn- book, but the Bible conveys secular, as well as religious information. It is history, it is morality, it is poetry. And if sects can agree upon the use of the Holy Scrip- tures in schools, it would be monstrous arrogance to prevent them ...

... subject he intended to select instances from poetry — the poetry of the poor man, who, perhaps, never had a half-penny- worth of education in his life. Great things had been written in prose, he acknowledged, but poetry was the everlasting teacher — it was the ...

... description of the capture of a shark was interesting. It was decided on board the vessel that the captain shoidd be celebrated in poetry. Three poetic competitors appeared. A prize was to be awarded to the victor, and by the decision of a competent judge, it ...