Mrs. Jordan, المجلد 2Grolier Society, 1800 |
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الصفحة vii
... Red Cross Knights " -Falls Foul of Poor O'Keefe's " Peeping Tom " - His Anachronisms - Colman Not to Be Moved by the Twaddler - The Winter Season of Drury Could - M122976 PAGE I - Not Begin with “ Pizarro ” — Kotzebue's Monopoly vii.
... Red Cross Knights " -Falls Foul of Poor O'Keefe's " Peeping Tom " - His Anachronisms - Colman Not to Be Moved by the Twaddler - The Winter Season of Drury Could - M122976 PAGE I - Not Begin with “ Pizarro ” — Kotzebue's Monopoly vii.
الصفحة viii
... Colman Not Engaged to Write Comedy Apparent Jealousy Mrs. Jordan , Even Cumberland Short of Her Powers - The Modern Writers Ignorant of Female Character - Cumberland and Burgoyne - The Latter Would Have Written for ― Jordan - Jealousy ...
... Colman Not Engaged to Write Comedy Apparent Jealousy Mrs. Jordan , Even Cumberland Short of Her Powers - The Modern Writers Ignorant of Female Character - Cumberland and Burgoyne - The Latter Would Have Written for ― Jordan - Jealousy ...
الصفحة x
... Colman for Covent Garden - Curious Challenge of the Little Manager- The " Marriage Promise , " by Allingham - Mrs. Jordan's Emma Harvey - The Author Curtails " Falstaff's Wed- ding , " for R. Palmer - Hamlet the Dane , His Excesses ...
... Colman for Covent Garden - Curious Challenge of the Little Manager- The " Marriage Promise , " by Allingham - Mrs. Jordan's Emma Harvey - The Author Curtails " Falstaff's Wed- ding , " for R. Palmer - Hamlet the Dane , His Excesses ...
الصفحة 2
... Colman's company acted at the Opera House the " Heir at Law " and the " Children in the Wood , " for the same kind purpose ; and Drury Lane Theatre opened on the 15th of September , and to give the greater , or , indeed , the greatest ...
... Colman's company acted at the Opera House the " Heir at Law " and the " Children in the Wood , " for the same kind purpose ; and Drury Lane Theatre opened on the 15th of September , and to give the greater , or , indeed , the greatest ...
الصفحة 3
... Colman's theatre , where Barrymore and Charles Kemble were studying to become Palmers , rehearsing my play of " Cambro - Britons . " Upon turning my head , I saw Mr. Palmer standing at the wing , and motioning to speak with me ; for he ...
... Colman's theatre , where Barrymore and Charles Kemble were studying to become Palmers , rehearsing my play of " Cambro - Britons . " Upon turning my head , I saw Mr. Palmer standing at the wing , and motioning to speak with me ; for he ...
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الصفحة 258 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder...
الصفحة 100 - What is a man, If his chief good, and market of his time, Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before, and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused.
الصفحة 71 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.
الصفحة 160 - Twas a child that so did thrive In grace and feature, As Heaven and Nature seem'd to strive Which own'd the creature. Years he number'd scarce thirteen When Fates turn'd cruel, Yet three fill'd zodiacs had he been The stage's jewel...
الصفحة 145 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
الصفحة 160 - Weep with me, all you that read This little story : And know, for whom a tear you shed Death's self is sorry. 'Twas a child that so did thrive In grace and feature, As heaven and nature seemed to strive Which owned the creature.
الصفحة 100 - Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do;' Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.
الصفحة 251 - My forbearance, he says, is beyond what he could have imagined ! But what will not a woman do who is firmly and sincerely attached ? Had he left me to starve, I never would have uttered a word to his disadvantage. I enclose you two other letters ; and in a day or two you shall see more, the rest being in the hands of the R 1. And now, my dear friend, do not hear the D. of C. unfairly abused.
الصفحة 20 - ... perfectly free. It is assumed, I know, to give dignity and variety to the style ; but whatever success the attempt may sometimes have, it is always obtained at the expense of purity and of the graces that are natural and appropriate to our language. It is true that when the exigence calls for auxiliaries of all sorts, and common language becomes unequal to the demands of extraordinary thoughts, something ought to be conceded to the necessities which make " ambition virtue ;" but the allowances...
الصفحة 25 - Oh, holy Nature ! thou dost never plead in vain. There is not, of our earth, a creature bearing form, and life, human or savage — native of the forest wild, or giddy air-— around whose parent bosom, thou...