Autobiography, a Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Volume 1Hunt and Clarke, 1826 |
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... knew his art well , life and manners still better ; his criticism is therefore of that sound descrip- tion which unpremeditatedly illustrates the one in dis- cussing the points of the other . This art is said to be gra- dually becoming ...
... knew his art well , life and manners still better ; his criticism is therefore of that sound descrip- tion which unpremeditatedly illustrates the one in dis- cussing the points of the other . This art is said to be gra- dually becoming ...
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... knew the patient was squeamish , he was induced to sweeten the medi- cine to his taste , and therefore with a smile of good- humour told him , that if to the many vices he had already , he would give himself the trouble to add one more ...
... knew the patient was squeamish , he was induced to sweeten the medi- cine to his taste , and therefore with a smile of good- humour told him , that if to the many vices he had already , he would give himself the trouble to add one more ...
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... knew capable of quitting the allurements of wit and pleasure for a strong application to business ; in his youth ( for there was a time when he was young ) he set out in all the hey - day expenses of a modish man of fortune ; but ...
... knew capable of quitting the allurements of wit and pleasure for a strong application to business ; in his youth ( for there was a time when he was young ) he set out in all the hey - day expenses of a modish man of fortune ; but ...
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... knew would but have confirmed their pretended suspicion : I therefore told them , since it gave them such joy to believe them my own , I would do my best to make the whole town think so too . As the oddness of this reply was , I knew ...
... knew would but have confirmed their pretended suspicion : I therefore told them , since it gave them such joy to believe them my own , I would do my best to make the whole town think so too . As the oddness of this reply was , I knew ...
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... this single expression ; wherever the verb outdo could come in , the pleasant accusative outdoing was sure to follow it . The provident wags knew , that decies repetita placebit : so delicious a morsel could not be 36 THE LIFE OF.
... this single expression ; wherever the verb outdo could come in , the pleasant accusative outdoing was sure to follow it . The provident wags knew , that decies repetita placebit : so delicious a morsel could not be 36 THE LIFE OF.
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Page 101 - ... at once; and that the letter might not embarrass her attack, crack ! she crumbles it at once into her palm, and pours upon him her whole artillery of airs, eyes, and motion. Down goes her dainty, diving, body to the ground, as if she were sinking under the conscious load of her own attractions ; then launches into a flood of fine language and compliment, still playing her chest forward in fifty falls and risings, like a swan upon waving water ; and, to complete her...
Page 66 - All this ? ay, more: Fret, till your proud heart break; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
Page 87 - ... before his time; and yet his general excellence may be comprehended in one article, viz. a plain and palpable simplicity of nature, which was so utterly his own, that he was often as unaccountably diverting in his common speech, as on the stage. I saw him once...
Page 164 - Such then was the mettlesome modesty he set out with ; upon this principle he produced several frank and free farces, that seemed to knock all distinctions of mankind on the head. Religion, laws, government, priests, judges, and ministers, were all laid flat at the feet of this Herculean satirist...
Page 65 - Betterton ; and it has often amazed me to see those who soon came after him, throw out in some parts of a character a just and graceful spirit which Betterton himself could not but have applauded ; and yet, in the equally shining passages of the same character, have heavily...
Page 101 - Melantha is as finished an impertinent as ever fluttered in a drawing-room, and seems to contain the most complete system of female foppery that could possibly be crowded into the tortured form of a fine lady.
Page 293 - Meaning, the Fable of Mars and Venus* was form'd into a connected Presentation of Dances in Character, wherein the Passions were so happily expressed, and the whole Story so intelligibly told by a mute Narration of Gesture only, that even thinking Spectators allow'd it both a pleasing and a rational Entertainment...
Page 100 - Mountfort, whose second marriage gave her the name of Verbruggen, was mistress of more variety of humour than I ever knew in any one woman actress. This variety too was attended with an equal vivacity, which made her excellent in characters extremely different. -As she was naturally a pleasant...
Page 64 - Hamlet should be in so violent a passion with the gho«t, which, though it might have astonished, had not provoked him ? For you may observe, that in this beautiful speech the passion never rises beyond an almost breathless astonishment, or an impatience limited by filial reverence, to...
Page 310 - ... if the common fame of her may be believed, which in my memory was not doubted, she had less to be laid to her charge, than any other of those ladies who were in the same state of preferment : she never meddled in matters of serious moment, or was the tool of working politicians ; never...