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... O'CONNOR, M.P. I WOULD have been glad that Mr. Bright had devoted more to Maria Theresa as a woman and an individual and less as to her wars. It is as a woman and an individual that she is really interesting, and that she will always so remain. Her battles ...

Published: Saturday 08 May 1897
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5763 | Page: 20 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

The [ill] Drama

... trial P The question in its ultimate reaches is still wider. Is the Army to rule France, or is France to rule the Army ? In esrci now issue as it arises, this is the real point. Thlo Army has judged, nud, as it is sometimes willing to admit for argu- ment's ...

A SOLDIER'S WIFE

... clings with all the more fondness to the only consolation left him, his daughter Clive, who, when the play opens, has grcwn to woman's estate, and is the idol of her devoted and indulgent parent. Among the officers in the same regiment is a Major Dorrien, ...

Published: Saturday 03 June 1899
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1514 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

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... his family by Mr. Fane aroused the anger of Gladys, his daughter, on hearing he was about wedding her bitterest enemy, the woman she believed to be her de- termined foe A STARTLING ANNOUNCEMENT. It was after luncheon on that dismal day on which Gladys ...

MAN AND HIS BROTHER

... shriek, N On coalpit echoes borne,- And starving Woman's hollow cheek n- In city streets forlorn,- d And mean oppression's heavy hand P On patient merit's head,- ir Ask everywhere throughout the land, .1 -Whither has Mercy fled? 2i Yet is there comfort: ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... t it time to start? We're all upon the fret. Miss H. One word ere I depart. A female sceptre rules our land and laws, Let me invoke you in a woman's cause. WILD. That's an appeal no man alive withstands, Now leave your fortune-in those hearts, those hands ...

Published: Sunday 12 October 1845
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 7938 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

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... instituAtions, sadath as say, appears in the derogatory haracter of a decided tuft-hunter. Her receptioruv theauchess. of. Bather-. land, and that ?? oe-wate phia- thropists, comple sl trrn;2rcle of rose-water philan- she evidently wet tune tthe good lady's head ...

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... visit England. The social evil, so called, is ntterly and posi- tively tuiknuorn in the land of which I speak. Anything more beautifnl:bhnn the modest ?? of the woman or girl whom one meets on the pathway-cannot be con- oeivcd. Thefirsb impulse is to knel ...

THE BRAN-PIE OF CURRENT LITERATURE

... the Regent's allowance at the Chatham mess, the regiment was employed by driblets in taking convicts out to Van Diemen's Land. It was a service which seems to the outsider to have been as unattractive as it was perilous. The convict ships in the forties ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... genius: to watch and to wait, To renew, to redeem, and to regenerate. The mission of woman on earth! to give birth To the mercy of Heaven descending on earth. The mission of woman: permitted to bruise The head of the serpent, and sweetly infuse, Through the ...

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... griound, and separated them. The woman laughed and shrieked hysterically, like a hyena; the captain seemed to gasp as if he had the death-rattle in his threat. .dll chic passed in the darkness. Two of us held down the woman. A light was struck, and what ...

LITERATURE

... end meant what she uttered. But it sounded odd to hear that little womantalk so supremely of her power, her authority, her army, her navy, her ministers, her people, &e. And yet there was a touch of the moral sublime in the dramatic situation of the ...