Eminent Women of the Age: Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of the Most Prominent Women of the Present GenerationS.M. Betts, 1869 - 618 pagini |
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Pagina 88
... voice of music return to me as I recall the image of that venerated lady over whom more than threescore and ten years had passed ere I saw the light . Her tall , graceful form , moving with elastic step through the parterres whose ...
... voice of music return to me as I recall the image of that venerated lady over whom more than threescore and ten years had passed ere I saw the light . Her tall , graceful form , moving with elastic step through the parterres whose ...
Pagina 106
... voice , presence , and temperament , which are fitted to charm and im- press an audience . Charles Kemble was soon led to try the stage , upon which he rose gradually to a high , but never to the highest , position . He was the best ...
... voice , presence , and temperament , which are fitted to charm and im- press an audience . Charles Kemble was soon led to try the stage , upon which he rose gradually to a high , but never to the highest , position . He was the best ...
Pagina 107
... voice , for which the Kembles were distinguished . It sud- denly occurred to the family that this brilliant and saucy girl , perhaps a little spoiled by parental fondness , might prove a great actress and save the failing fortunes of ...
... voice , for which the Kembles were distinguished . It sud- denly occurred to the family that this brilliant and saucy girl , perhaps a little spoiled by parental fondness , might prove a great actress and save the failing fortunes of ...
Pagina 111
... voice to the treble duct of her two pretty companions , with a superiority of shrillness that might have been the envy and pride of Billingsgate . ' Twas enough to bother a rookery ! " The country through which we passed was woodland ...
... voice to the treble duct of her two pretty companions , with a superiority of shrillness that might have been the envy and pride of Billingsgate . ' Twas enough to bother a rookery ! " The country through which we passed was woodland ...
Pagina 117
... voice and recitation were conjur- ing up around me . " Miss Kemble's dramatic career in the United States was troubled by only one disagreeable incident , which occurred while she was playing an engagement at Washington . On returning ...
... voice and recitation were conjur- ing up around me . " Miss Kemble's dramatic career in the United States was troubled by only one disagreeable incident , which occurred while she was playing an engagement at Washington . On returning ...
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Pagina 627 - I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: " As ye deal with My contemners so with you My grace shall deal: " Let the hero born of woman crush the serpent with his heel! Since God is marching on.
Pagina 627 - He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat; Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet! Our God is marching on! In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Pagina 225 - Of a slight, delicate figure, with a shower of dark curls falling on either side of a most expressive face, large tender eyes richly fringed by dark eyelashes, a smile like a sunbeam...
Pagina 422 - Now you are Queen of the mightiest land of Europe, in your hand lies the happiness of millions. May Heaven assist you and strengthen you with its strength in that high but difficult task. I hope that your reign may be long, happy, and glorious, and that your efforts may be rewarded by the thankfulness and love of your subjects.
Pagina 346 - Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.
Pagina 432 - his care of her was like that of a mother, nor could there be a kinder, wiser, or more judicious nurse.
Pagina 233 - Never flinch, But still, unscrupulously epic, catch Upon the burning lava of a song The full-veined, heaving, double-breasted Age . That, when the next shall come, the men of that May touch the impress with reverent hand, and say ' Behold, —behold the paps we all have sucked ! This bosom seems to beat still, or at least It sets ours beating : this is living art, Which thus presents and thus records true life.
Pagina 325 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea and things which are not, to bring to naught, things that are: that no flesh should glory in His presence.
Pagina 591 - ... condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Pagina 626 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.