Mrs. Jordan, Volumul 2Grolier Society, 1800 |
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Pagina 16
... doubt whether Mrs. Siddons would fall into it , the best way will be to look into Kotzebue's scenes , and , drawing out her char- acter for ourselves , ask whether Mrs. Siddons was like the abstraction we have made . Pizarro , ignorant ...
... doubt whether Mrs. Siddons would fall into it , the best way will be to look into Kotzebue's scenes , and , drawing out her char- acter for ourselves , ask whether Mrs. Siddons was like the abstraction we have made . Pizarro , ignorant ...
Pagina 47
... doubt of the man's having served with distinguished bravery under the Duke of York's command , that he had received sabre cuts in the head sufficient to destroy any reason in the world , and had been left for dead some hours in a ditch ...
... doubt of the man's having served with distinguished bravery under the Duke of York's command , that he had received sabre cuts in the head sufficient to destroy any reason in the world , and had been left for dead some hours in a ditch ...
Pagina 64
... doubt , the greater artist . In this state of things some favourable reports were received from Dublin of an actor exceedingly eccentric , but certainly a master in his art , who had an ambition to try his strength expressly against ...
... doubt , the greater artist . In this state of things some favourable reports were received from Dublin of an actor exceedingly eccentric , but certainly a master in his art , who had an ambition to try his strength expressly against ...
Pagina 116
... ad- mired , but that he had been confined to his bed . four and twenty hours , by very violent disorder . " As there could be no doubt of this fact , he was permitted to act King John on the present occa- sion 116 MRS . JORDAN.
... ad- mired , but that he had been confined to his bed . four and twenty hours , by very violent disorder . " As there could be no doubt of this fact , he was permitted to act King John on the present occa- sion 116 MRS . JORDAN.
Pagina 170
... doubt , was as much delighted as any person in the theatre . I firmly believe , the actress might compliment herself justly with having " done the deed . ” She had certainly spoken intelligibly her own sense , in the language of ...
... doubt , was as much delighted as any person in the theatre . I firmly believe , the actress might compliment herself justly with having " done the deed . ” She had certainly spoken intelligibly her own sense , in the language of ...
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Pagina 258 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...