The Life of Mrs. Jordan: Including Original Private Correspondence, and Numerous Anecdotes of Her Contemporaries, Volume 2E. Bull, 1831 - Actors |
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... interest : however , though not a moral play , it was written evidently , I said , by a man of talent ; and , as a benefit piece , preferable to an old one . Mrs. Jordan , here , in confidence , informed me 12 THE LIFE OF MRS . JORDAN .
... interest : however , though not a moral play , it was written evidently , I said , by a man of talent ; and , as a benefit piece , preferable to an old one . Mrs. Jordan , here , in confidence , informed me 12 THE LIFE OF MRS . JORDAN .
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... interest which arises from actual facts at criti- cal periods ; from difficulties surmounted by pa- tience or exertion : abounding in the terrible and destructive , unexaggerated and minutely detailed . As a moving picture , this ...
... interest which arises from actual facts at criti- cal periods ; from difficulties surmounted by pa- tience or exertion : abounding in the terrible and destructive , unexaggerated and minutely detailed . As a moving picture , this ...
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... interest . But this we are in no danger of seeing done by any modern author , of whatever nation . But the Birth - day is not the only tribute paid by Kotzebue to the genius of Sterne . In his play of the Peevish Man , we have Mr ...
... interest . But this we are in no danger of seeing done by any modern author , of whatever nation . But the Birth - day is not the only tribute paid by Kotzebue to the genius of Sterne . In his play of the Peevish Man , we have Mr ...
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... with much grace , his acknow- ledgements for the interest expressed by his people . HADFIELD , the maniac , being secured , and the house only noisy from its excessive joy and gratu- lation THE LIFE OF MRS . JORDAN . 47.
... with much grace , his acknow- ledgements for the interest expressed by his people . HADFIELD , the maniac , being secured , and the house only noisy from its excessive joy and gratu- lation THE LIFE OF MRS . JORDAN . 47.
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... interest , except what the Marrowfats might produce at a wedding dinner ; and they were acted by Bob Palmer and Miss Tidswell . The Vauxhall Hooke composed the music of this opera . He was an excellent musi- cian , but he wrote too fast ...
... interest , except what the Marrowfats might produce at a wedding dinner ; and they were acted by Bob Palmer and Miss Tidswell . The Vauxhall Hooke composed the music of this opera . He was an excellent musi- cian , but he wrote too fast ...
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Page 247 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder...
Page 91 - 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 59 - 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 155 - 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 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 138 - 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 84 - And mark'd the clouds that drove before the wind, Ten thousand glorious systems would he build, Ten thousand great ideas fill'd his mind; But with the clouds they fled, and left no trace behind.
Page 91 - 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 140 - Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come, Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius, For Cassius is aweary of the world ; Hated by one he loves...
Page 3 - ... 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 11 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep!