The first collection of Manx church songs was printed in 1799, and was followed by many other collections, though it was not until the 1870s and 1880s that Manx music began to be published in any great quantity, as drawing-room ballads, religious songs, and choral arrangements all became popular.

The first collection of Manx church songs was printed in 1799, and was followed by many other collections, though it was not until the 1870s and 1880s that Manx music began to be published in any great quantity, as drawing-room ballads, religious songs, and choral arrangements all became popular.

The aria Non lo dirò col labbro was adapted by Arthur Somervell ( 1863 – 1937 ) as the popular classic ' Silent Worship ', 1928 ; its use in the 1996 film of Jane Austen's Emma may effectively capture an atmosphere of home entertainment, although this English drawing-room version of the song was created more than a century after the action of Jane Austen's novel.

He also wrote a number of successful drawing-room songs and solo piano pieces during this time.

She then rendered the drawing-room ballad " Come into the Garden Maud " in such an obscene way that the committee was shocked into silence.

In the Golden Age of Hollywood, MGM Studios was responsible for shooting 52 films a year, from screen epics such as Gone with the Wind ( although it was shot in the Culver Studios ), Ben-Hur, and Mutiny on the Bounty, to drawing-room dramas such as Grand Hotel, Dinner At Eight, and Anna Karenina.

It seemed to me so neat, after the raggedness of our Western cities ; so protected by good manners and courtesy – like an open-air drawing-room.

The film was written by Fields, using the alias Mahatma Kane Jeeves ( derived from the Broadway drawing-room comedy cliche, " My hat, my cane, Jeeves!

In her journal for Christmas Eve 1832, the delighted 13-year-old princess wrote, " After dinner … we then went into the drawing-room near the dining-room … There were two large round tables on which were placed two trees hung with lights and sugar ornaments.

Unfortunately, as is well known, the theatre of La Scala serves, not only as the universal drawing-room for all the society of Milan, but every sort of trading transaction, from horse-dealing to stock-jobbing, is carried on in the pit ; so that brief and far between are the snatches of melody one can catch.

His mother was similarly accomplished, and her role as a society hostess-for example her drawing-room parties, luncheons, and dinners, held in the Musset residence-left a lasting impression on young Alfred.

While the theatre was closed in the summers, Terry's father presented drawing-room entertainments at the Royal Colosseum, Regent's Park, London, and then on tour.

English author Wilkie Collins referred to an ottoman in his novel, The Moonstone, " She instantly seated herself on the ottoman in the back drawing-room.

The Saturday Review reported that " The controversy excited by the appearance of Darwin's remarkable work on the Origin of Species has passed beyond the bounds of the study and lecture-room into the drawing-room and the public street.

The dining-room / master-bedroom, on the right of the entrance, retains its old oak ceiling crossed by massive beams, and the upper room over the drawing-room in the south wing has an elaborate plaster frieze on its north and south walls.

Now the most commonly understood meaning of the term ballad, sentimental ballads, sometimes called " tear-jerkers " or " drawing-room ballads " owing to their popularity with the middle classes, had their origins in the early ‘ Tin Pan Alley ’ music industry of the later 19th century.

' Dearly we paid for the blunder -' A drawing-room General ’ s mistake.

Duroy is also introduced to many politicians in Madame Forestier ’ s drawing-room.

" Another afternoon he joined her in the drawing-room and said " The clocks go dreadfully slowly, I have come in here to see if this one gets over the hours any quicker than the study one does.

On one rainy evening, the boy secludes himself in a soundless, dark drawing-room and gives his feelings for her full release: " I pressed the palms of my hands together until they trembled, murmuring: O love!

Some of the most popular sketches and segments on Hee Haw included:

Other sketches included " Superthunderstingcar ", a parody of the Gerry Anderson marionette TV shows, and Cook's pastiche of 1960s trendy arts documentaries – satirised in a parodic TV segment on Greta Garbo.

The Rolling Stone featured satire on life, people and politics and included Porter's short stories and sketches.

Eleanor Bron's earliest work for television included appearances on David Frost's Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life, My Father Knew Lloyd George and BBC-3, where she performed in sketches with John Fortune ; they had already worked together at Peter Cook's Establishment Club.

Most episodes included one or more firing squad sketches, where Les would play the part of a Latin American military officer with a sword in hand preparing to order a firing squad to execute one of the children actors, who were standing in front of a post.

The British comedy sketch show, Harry Enfield's Television Programme, included a series of sketches in which Paul Whitehouse played a character called Michael Paine ; an amalgam of previous Michael Caine impressions, who in a reference to the The Ipcress File wears oversized, thick-rimmed glasses and a trench coat.

In April 1972, issue 90 of The Veterinary Record included a paper on the diseases of Brunus edwardii: a description of lost limbs and thinning hair, accompanied by sketches of a teddy bear resembling Winnie the Pooh.

Frequently recurring Laugh-In sketches included:

The first Dynamite issue was published with four different color covers and eight special cover variants: These included Retailer Incentive versions, regional comic shop limited print run specials, and even two variants that offered limited run, hand-drawn, signed, and numbered original cover sketches, one in pencil, the other in ink.

In 1958, they appeared on Broadway in A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green, a revue that included some of their early sketches.

Each sketch also included a third " guest commentator " portrayed by Ferguson, some of which would later get their own sketches.

Some of the most memorable sketches included Gina Riley, Jane Turner and Magda Szubanski's Kath and Kim, which would later give rise to the spin – off series of the same name ; Dumb Street, a parody of Home and Away and Neighbours ; a lampoon of Skippy ; Moon and Vizard breaking up in their parody of Kung Fu ;

Corot's drawing lessons included tracing lithographs, copying three-dimensional forms, and making landscape sketches and paintings outdoors, especially in the forests of Fontainebleau, the seaports along Normandy, and the villages west of Paris such as Ville-d ' Avray ( where his parents had a country house ).

Young Grossmith's sketches at this time included The Puddleton Penny Readings, Our Choral Society and In the Stalls.

His new sketches during this period included Modern Music and Morals ( 1889 ), On Tour ; or, Piano and I ( 1891 ), A Seaside Holiday ( 1892 ), Fashionable Music ( 1892 ) and Is Music a Failure?

Perhaps the artist's most abundant and personal works, however, included his pencil sketches of Siddal at home.

The recent series have included various sketches devoted to Torchwood where the Cardiff Rift is seen as a way of randomly changing scene locations, the sketch also makes fun of the fact that it is seen as an adult version of Doctor Who, the Welsh setting, along with the campness of Captain Jack Harkness ( John Barrowman ).

Subject matter included history, biography, poetry, essays, politics, travel and seventeen collections of short stories or literary sketches.

Other differences included the change in makeup style from a prosthetic forehead to a series of spots, although some makeup tests and sketches were made in the preproduction of Deep Space Nine using the earlier makeup style, but the actress who would play Jadzia Dax, Terry Farrell, proved allergic to the extensive prostheses, and so the new style was created.

Supporting players in Wayne & Shuster's television sketches included Don Cullen, Jack Duffy, Tom Harvey, Bill Kemp, Paul Kligman, Ben Lennick, Sylvia Lennick, Peggi Loder, Les Rubie, Eric Christmas, Joe Austin, Larry D. Mann, Paul Soles, Marilyn Stuart, Roy Wordsworth, John Davies, Carol Robinson, Lou Pitoscia, Peggy Mahon, Don Ewer, and Keith Hampshire.

Each season contained 10 episodes, which included sketches inspired by their live shows and new material.

His early drawings included architectural sketches and landscapes drawn on notepads and in the margins of his schoolbooks.

This entire section of sketches was included in Spike's book " I Told You I Was Ill ".

Under the title, Carol Burnett & Company, the show premiered on Saturday, August 18, 1979 and included many favorite sketches such as " Mr. Tudball and Mrs. Wiggins ", " The Family ", " As The Stomach Turns ", and Burnett doing her impersonation of Queen Elizabeth II.