New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 40Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth Henry Colburn, 1834 |
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... Theatre of all such for nearly thirty years . The daily press ( the " Times " newspaper especially ) attacked the individual no less than the thing itself with an almost ruffian ferocity . The experi- ment was , therefore , doubly ...
... Theatre of all such for nearly thirty years . The daily press ( the " Times " newspaper especially ) attacked the individual no less than the thing itself with an almost ruffian ferocity . The experi- ment was , therefore , doubly ...
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... theatre is the scene for the display of passion ; in the chamber and the orchestra the feelings must be restrained , and even subdued . Indeed , nothing more clearly indicates how little susceptible of the finest and deepest ex ...
... theatre is the scene for the display of passion ; in the chamber and the orchestra the feelings must be restrained , and even subdued . Indeed , nothing more clearly indicates how little susceptible of the finest and deepest ex ...
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... theatres . But Sontag alone has raised a great name . Madame Stock- hausen , indeed , contributed even more than this great artiste to natural- izing the melodies of her country amongst us , for they were peculiarly suited to the ...
... theatres . But Sontag alone has raised a great name . Madame Stock- hausen , indeed , contributed even more than this great artiste to natural- izing the melodies of her country amongst us , for they were peculiarly suited to the ...
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... theatre of that name . Petticoat Lane got tipsy with Holywell Street ( the latter , by the by , said his home was in a street near the Strand , yet he didn't know which street ! ) Smithfield , being dreadfully intoxicated , talked in a ...
... theatre of that name . Petticoat Lane got tipsy with Holywell Street ( the latter , by the by , said his home was in a street near the Strand , yet he didn't know which street ! ) Smithfield , being dreadfully intoxicated , talked in a ...
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... theatre , and have much enlightened the population north of Oxford - street , who , at present , mingle in the recreations of London only when they descend in parties , like Oriental travellers , in caravans - we do not mean Paddington ...
... theatre , and have much enlightened the population north of Oxford - street , who , at present , mingle in the recreations of London only when they descend in parties , like Oriental travellers , in caravans - we do not mean Paddington ...
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Page 142 - Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
Page 101 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony.
Page 43 - The light which we have gained, was given us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge.
Page 43 - ... a wicked race of deceivers, who as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds.
Page 41 - Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
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Page 46 - ... where they undoubtedly, that by their labours, counsels, and prayers, have been earnest for the common good of religion and their country, shall receive above the inferior orders of the blessed, the regal addition of principalities, legions, and thrones into their glorious titles, and in supereminence of beatific vision, progressing the dateless and irrevoluble circle of eternity, shall clasp inseparable hands with joy and blifls. in overmeasure for ever.
Page 46 - ... in this land throughout all ages ; whereby this great and warlike nation, instructed and inured to the fervent and continual practice of truth and righteousness, and casting far from her the rags of her old vices, may press on hard to that high and happy emulation to be found the soberest, wisest, and most Christian people...
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