Mrs. Jordan, Volume 2Grolier Society, 1800 |
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... audience , deeply penetrated by the story from Liverpool , was quite astonished to hear Kem- ble pronounce the fatal truism , " There is another and a better world , " to his man Francis , as he had always done , and suspected him to ...
... audience , deeply penetrated by the story from Liverpool , was quite astonished to hear Kem- ble pronounce the fatal truism , " There is another and a better world , " to his man Francis , as he had always done , and suspected him to ...
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... audience , the other behind upon the stage . My business was politics , but Sheridan was so deeply interested with what was going on ( Pizarro ' ) , that I could not speak to him for a length of time . He repeated every syllable after ...
... audience , the other behind upon the stage . My business was politics , but Sheridan was so deeply interested with what was going on ( Pizarro ' ) , that I could not speak to him for a length of time . He repeated every syllable after ...
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... audience . Some of our old comedies , those of Shakespeare , Fletcher , Jonson , and Massinger , have much of the dialogue written in blank verse . I have always observed that the comic actors de- livered it without an appearance of ...
... audience . Some of our old comedies , those of Shakespeare , Fletcher , Jonson , and Massinger , have much of the dialogue written in blank verse . I have always observed that the comic actors de- livered it without an appearance of ...
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... audience , when a man started up from the second row of the pit , about the middle of the bench , and sud- denly levelling a horse - pistol at the royal box , fired it . The house was , for a few moments , panic- struck ; the neighbours ...
... audience , when a man started up from the second row of the pit , about the middle of the bench , and sud- denly levelling a horse - pistol at the royal box , fired it . The house was , for a few moments , panic- struck ; the neighbours ...
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... audience seemed to consider suffi- cient for one offence . Mr. Godwin was by no means turned to tragedy ; he was either weak in his fable , or impure in his interest , careless about received opinions , and not so much a master of the ...
... audience seemed to consider suffi- cient for one offence . Mr. Godwin was by no means turned to tragedy ; he was either weak in his fable , or impure in his interest , careless about received opinions , and not so much a master of the ...
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Page 258 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...