Mrs. Jordan, Volume 2Grolier Society, 1800 |
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... late Majesty George the Fourth when prince regent . I shall here merely say that his fourth chapter in this work is written with great skill , and possesses that interest which arises from actual facts at critical periods ; from ...
... late Majesty George the Fourth when prince regent . I shall here merely say that his fourth chapter in this work is written with great skill , and possesses that interest which arises from actual facts at critical periods ; from ...
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... late as it was in his management , have even now weaned himself from politics , and turned his pow- ers to the mere improvement of German plays , he had saved his property and himself alike from ruin . Kemble , by his two efforts of the ...
... late as it was in his management , have even now weaned himself from politics , and turned his pow- ers to the mere improvement of German plays , he had saved his property and himself alike from ruin . Kemble , by his two efforts of the ...
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... late friend Holman to a review , which they were little calculated to sustain . Thus flushed with victory over the defenceless , he paid his respects Peeping Tom " at Coventry , and read poor blind O'Keefe a lecture upon the history of ...
... late friend Holman to a review , which they were little calculated to sustain . Thus flushed with victory over the defenceless , he paid his respects Peeping Tom " at Coventry , and read poor blind O'Keefe a lecture upon the history of ...
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... late speeches of his in the Commons ' House , and a few recent effusions by Rolla in their own , that his Majesty might allow them fair play in his sight , and repeat his visits , if he found himself entertained . The princesses were ...
... late speeches of his in the Commons ' House , and a few recent effusions by Rolla in their own , that his Majesty might allow them fair play in his sight , and repeat his visits , if he found himself entertained . The princesses were ...
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... one of the modern Congreve , that never occurred to the cabinet of this political and bankrupt theatre . Cumberland was a sentimentalist in his late efforts , and when he - - The wrote for Mrs. Jordan , herself , he MRS . JORDAN 61.
... one of the modern Congreve , that never occurred to the cabinet of this political and bankrupt theatre . Cumberland was a sentimentalist in his late efforts , and when he - - The wrote for Mrs. Jordan , herself , he MRS . JORDAN 61.
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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...