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A PORTRAIT

... music makes; While from her lips pure laughter glides, Swims on the air in silvery tides. Birds cease to sine whene er she speaks, The peach is dimneside her cheeks; Her brow is the abode of thought, As pale as though from marble wrought. Her dreamy eyes ...

THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... occupied by the 400 instru- mentalists by whoni MM. Meyerbeer, Auberi and Stern- dale 'Bemiett's 'conpositions will be executed. Speaking pdnerally, we' imy at once' say that the Art to which these illustrious andidistisguished names belong will' be illus- trated ...

THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... were opened the other day to the- artists, and I had an opportunity of inspecting them. Not having a catalogue, I cannot speak positively as to the contents of the galleries, but I came away with the impression tlht as far as the British School is concerned ...

INDUSTRIAL ART

... principles ?? by capital and directed byekill and enterprise..' ien were sto y Ipessed' with tile ,ense ' of the osscflss, so, to spe.ak,' os. wheat N'yill- Jse bteronedbth expression, 'h on r oreigning throughou dhil veaet 1staebllshreepitry;''th s a 'fforing ...

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

... deserved the honours accorded to him alike by rivals, colleagues, contemporaries, andsucessors. We must be understood as speaking of Reynolds's later style, for nearly all the specimens are posterior to 1770, no attempt whatever having been made to illustrate ...

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

... namongst them all the only oneworthy to share the honours of the two great, masters of portraiture. It is the fashion to speak somewhat slightingly of Lawrence, but whoever looks attentively at his matchless portrait of Pius the Seventh (from the Windsor ...

WHITSUNTIDE HOLIDAY AMUSEMENTS

... Birminghlam. Of the pler- formance of the Collein Bain, with which the enter- tecinnecnt concluded, it is unnecessary to speak, a as e have on foreser occasiones sufficiently exhausted ?? theme. NEW THEATRE, MOOR STREET. An effortv wss made last eveecing ...

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

... empires. And if the shapes and tints of the potter's clay suggest so warm a feeling of admiration, in what terms shall we speak of those dazzling cases in wbhich rare gems and precious metals furnish the materials, and the human form divine the object ...

THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S SHOW

... with the institution. He concluded by asking those assembled to induce other persons to become mnembers Mr. Pratt, after speaking of the advantages the com- pany afforded, renarked that it was not all out-side show -it was an institution that would bear ...

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

... appear to have monopolised the trade. is Plot, in his Natural History of Staffordshire, in the Le Chapter on the Arts, speaks of the ironworks' trade :n in Walsall, which chiefly relate to somewhat of le horsemanshilp, as spius, bridtles, stirrups ...

NOTES ON NEW BOOKS

... in every way adapted to travel quickly, he will not be left in the lurch by the oversight of the Exhibition Commissioners. Speaking plainly, the narrative he has written is one of those admirable works of travel which, rin the novelty of their design and ...

THE GREAT ROSE SHOW

... ns. The side and great galleries had also their especial attractions. -In these, in the order in which we shall hereafter speak, were garden implements, catletry; and apparatus, garden ornasients' of all kinds in terra cotta and plaster of Paris, as Well' ...