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It is told of him , that at the age of eighteen , while he was playing in Kent , the company he was with had made a halt at a country - town , and had fixed on a small alehouse for their place of residence during their stay .
It is told of him , that at the age of eighteen , while he was playing in Kent , the company he was with had made a halt at a country - town , and had fixed on a small alehouse for their place of residence during their stay .
الصفحة 2
At length he was engaged by Foote for the Haymarket , and happening to play Beau Mordecai in Love à la mode , for Shuter's benefit , he performed the part so much to the satisfaction of the author , that he recommended him strongly to ...
At length he was engaged by Foote for the Haymarket , and happening to play Beau Mordecai in Love à la mode , for Shuter's benefit , he performed the part so much to the satisfaction of the author , that he recommended him strongly to ...
الصفحة 28
... and S. A. chaplain to the duke of Newcastle ; biographer of artists ; critic on pictures , and historian of paintings ; translator of the Arabian Nights Entertainments , and Don Quixote ; and speculator in plays and farces .
... and S. A. chaplain to the duke of Newcastle ; biographer of artists ; critic on pictures , and historian of paintings ; translator of the Arabian Nights Entertainments , and Don Quixote ; and speculator in plays and farces .
الصفحة 39
A few months before Montagu's death , he did begin to play a little by way of accompaniinent when Montagu sung : but after he lost him , when lie was prevailed on to touch the violoncello , he was always discontented with his own ...
A few months before Montagu's death , he did begin to play a little by way of accompaniinent when Montagu sung : but after he lost him , when lie was prevailed on to touch the violoncello , he was always discontented with his own ...
الصفحة 28
... and S. A. chaplain to the duke of Newcastle ; biographer of artists ; critic on pictures , and historian of paintings ; translator of the Arabian Nights Entertainments , and Don Quixote ; and speculator in plays and farces .
... and S. A. chaplain to the duke of Newcastle ; biographer of artists ; critic on pictures , and historian of paintings ; translator of the Arabian Nights Entertainments , and Don Quixote ; and speculator in plays and farces .
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الصفحة 155 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
الصفحة 25 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
الصفحة 43 - To be the true Church militant; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery, And prove their doctrine orthodox, By apostolic blows and knocks; Call fire, and sword, and desolation, A godly, thorough reformation. Which always must be carried on, And still be doing, never done; As if religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended...
الصفحة 66 - ... around him : he thought only of his subject : his genius warmed and kindled as he went on. He darted fire into his audience. Torrents of impetuous and irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and conviction.
الصفحة 99 - Every body knows that ants come out of their holes in the day-time, and expose to the sun the corn which they keep under ground in the night : those who have seen ant-hillocks, have easily perceived those small heaps of corn about their nests. What surprised me at first was, that my ants never brought out their corn, but in the night when the moon did shine...
الصفحة 39 - They both complimented me, in the highest terms, on my essay, which, they said, was a book they always kept by them; and the king said he had one copy of it at Kew, and another in town, and immediately went and took it down from a shelf. I found it was the second edition. 'I never stole a book but one,' said his Majesty, ' and that was yours (speaking to me) ; I stole it from the queen, to give it to Lord Hertford to read.
الصفحة 98 - ... and from the walls, which, together with the earth formerly imbibed with water, made a kind of a dry and barren soil. That place lying to the south, and out of the...
الصفحة 58 - Essay, which they said was a book they always kept by them : and the King said he had one copy of it at Kew, and another in town, and immediately went and took it down from a shelf. I found it was the second edition. ' I never stole a book but once,' said his Majesty, ' and that was yours,' (speaking to me) : ' I stole it from the Queen, to give it to Lord Hertford to read.
الصفحة 61 - Pilkington having inquired of her where she gained this prodigious knowledge, she modestly replied, that when she could spare time from her needlework, to which she was closely kept by her mother, she had received some little instruction from the minister of the parish.
الصفحة 99 - I did not know it by experience, is, that those ants knew, some days after, that they had nothing to fear, and began to lay out their corn in the sun. However, I perceived...