Mrs. Jordan, المجلد 2Grolier Society, 1800 |
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... certainly was an infant Hercules . The reader will judge of the pleasure with which I have since viewed his career as a soldier , and I owe him my thanks for his instructive and amusing journey across India , through Egypt , to England ...
... certainly was an infant Hercules . The reader will judge of the pleasure with which I have since viewed his career as a soldier , and I owe him my thanks for his instructive and amusing journey across India , through Egypt , to England ...
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... certainly never wished his system to prevail upon the stage , lest what we heard there should , in manner at least , resemble nothing heard anywhere else . She thought it showing off the poet rather than the character . The lines are ...
... certainly never wished his system to prevail upon the stage , lest what we heard there should , in manner at least , resemble nothing heard anywhere else . She thought it showing off the poet rather than the character . The lines are ...
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... certainly the best part of it , the money it brought into the house . I think my old acquaint- ance , Peake , told me that I might fairly estimate its first season at £ 15,000 . But for the credit of Sheridan's muse , I could have ...
... certainly the best part of it , the money it brought into the house . I think my old acquaint- ance , Peake , told me that I might fairly estimate its first season at £ 15,000 . But for the credit of Sheridan's muse , I could have ...
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... she was certainly first by the free display of her own inimitable humour and unaffected sensibility . The theatre now for some time was without Mrs. Jordan's assistance , in consequence of her confinement at 34 MRS . JORDAN.
... she was certainly first by the free display of her own inimitable humour and unaffected sensibility . The theatre now for some time was without Mrs. Jordan's assistance , in consequence of her confinement at 34 MRS . JORDAN.
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... certainly , could here have been taken at the king , for his Majesty was on horseback , and about eight yards distant , on the same line with the gentleman shot . Had that gentleman been the same distance from the king , behind his ...
... certainly , could here have been taken at the king , for his Majesty was on horseback , and about eight yards distant , on the same line with the gentleman shot . Had that gentleman been the same distance from the king , behind his ...
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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...