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Literary Notice

... Paul's Epistles, all breathing a most earnest spirit, and ?? often by great pithiness of expression. In h1s firt dis- course, speaking of the unsettled religious tendencies of the time, continually oscillating from scepticism to superstition, an d from super- ...

MALIBRAN

... cribb'd and small Is scarcely heard in softest whispers low; The features that shone out with conscious power, Now pale and wan, speak of fast-wasting life; And that bright eye, that flash'd in passion's song, Glisten'd in pathos, or in gladness danc'd, Or glew'd ...

Literature, Science, and Art

... agencies of the eleclric telegraph there is nothing else so mar- vellons as receiving intelligence by sorund. The appa- tus speaks a language, a telegraphic langsage, as dis- ti-ict in tone and articulation as belongs to any tongue. 'The sound that makes ...

TO JOHN BRIGHT

... Barnburning, filibustering, wholesale repudiation, John; The noblest of the citizens averse from public life, John For those who speak what riles the mob, the tar and feathers rife, John. What is there In the fruits of the system you so laud, John, That we should ...

FASHIONS FOR MAY

... the benefit of our usual tour of inspection. The pardessus occupies ,considerable attention at the present moment. We must speak of several, the productions of one of our first houses, varying from the most sumptuous, trimmed with many yards of hand- some ...

POETRY

... manhood's risen day, And nerves the soul to might, When life shines forth with fullest ray, Forewarning least of night. It speaks of noble ends to gaih, A world to mend by love, That tempers strength of hand and braun With softness of the dove. It falls ...

THE WIND

... And'in its dirgelike tlow, A'ndwildly- fitful hollosr moan, That pmakes the trempbingforest groan, There isva tale of wvoe. It speaks of winte'ls stormsy powbr- Of rnant awdark and dismal hour, Tro pilgrims'on the main: Of co;rses- floatiegw-on the deep, Of ...

LECTURE ON THE ART OF DELIVERY

... remarking that there were few situations in which a man could be placed inorecinbarrassing thian that of being called upon to speak on the propriety of speech-there was somietliig in his posi- tion which generated remark and exposel to severity. , lle preceeded ...

LITERATURE

... ; most of the chief actors are personally known to MIr Steven- son, who expresses in his preface the hope that his plain speaking will not cost him any of his friends. The writing of the book was thus evidently a delicate task, and Mr Stevenson is to ...

LITERATURE

... into as few word, .saihle. His points gain imiiensely the,. y. in running through the hook one comijoS across sonie straight speaking. What, for instance, could be miore direct than this :-'- it Is niot their temperaments that make shipwrecks of so ianIUy ...

Poetry

... touched me with its dreamy shade, Bat the full moonlight fell on her. And as she paused-I know not why- I longed to speak, yet could not speak; The bashful are the boldest-I- I stooped and gently kissed her cheek, A murmur (else somi fragrant air Stirred ...

PIANOFORTE RECITAL

... high-class cre- dentials and most valuable introductions. All | this in regard to art counts for nothing. Let 1 us therefore speak of his merits as an executant 1 entirely apart from any such consideration. As already indicated Herr Stendner is but a strip- ...