Mrs. Jordan, المجلد 2Grolier Society, 1800 |
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الصفحة 37
... Grace the Duke of Gloucester is seen standing between two clergymen with a prayer - book in his hand . This book , for aught I know the " Secret His- tory of the Greenroom , " - which Kemble took from the property man before he went on ...
... Grace the Duke of Gloucester is seen standing between two clergymen with a prayer - book in his hand . This book , for aught I know the " Secret His- tory of the Greenroom , " - which Kemble took from the property man before he went on ...
الصفحة 44
... grace , his acknowledgments for the interest expressed by his people . Hadfield , the maniac , being secured , and the house only noisy from its excessive joy and gratulation , the queen advanced in much alarm , and his Majesty , to ...
... grace , his acknowledgments for the interest expressed by his people . Hadfield , the maniac , being secured , and the house only noisy from its excessive joy and gratulation , the queen advanced in much alarm , and his Majesty , to ...
الصفحة 63
... grace , and heroic ardour , as it had ever been for the dry proprieties of the genuine text of his author , or the new versions he had given of either his meaning or his action . Indeed , by some very recent displays , he had removed ...
... grace , and heroic ardour , as it had ever been for the dry proprieties of the genuine text of his author , or the new versions he had given of either his meaning or his action . Indeed , by some very recent displays , he had removed ...
الصفحة 82
... hoarse Kemble , without his grace . He was a scholar , and extremely fond of acting , but he had a defect which crippled all his action , — he could not walk . - - Whether he had contracted his narrow circle of motion from 82 MRS . JORDAN.
... hoarse Kemble , without his grace . He was a scholar , and extremely fond of acting , but he had a defect which crippled all his action , — he could not walk . - - Whether he had contracted his narrow circle of motion from 82 MRS . JORDAN.
الصفحة 138
... the doubtful patronage of witchcraft , and pro- duces all the effects of magic by the influence of beauty and love and marriage and grace , which the reader sees must be no less divine personages than 138 MRS . JORDAN.
... the doubtful patronage of witchcraft , and pro- duces all the effects of magic by the influence of beauty and love and marriage and grace , which the reader sees must be no less divine personages than 138 MRS . JORDAN.
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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...