Mrs. Jordan, Volumul 2Grolier Society, 1800 |
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Pagina viii
... Write Comedy Apparent Jealousy Mrs. Jordan , Even Cumberland Short of Her Powers - The Modern Writers Ignorant of Female Character - Cumberland and Burgoyne - The Latter Would Have Written for ― Jordan - Jealousy of Kemble - Cooke ...
... Write Comedy Apparent Jealousy Mrs. Jordan , Even Cumberland Short of Her Powers - The Modern Writers Ignorant of Female Character - Cumberland and Burgoyne - The Latter Would Have Written for ― Jordan - Jealousy of Kemble - Cooke ...
Pagina xiii
... Writes to a Confidential Friend- The Advice Given to Her - Withdraws from Town Theatricals- Visits Bath with One of Her Daughters - Ludicrous Scene at One of the Libraries - The Author's Opinion of Her Conduct · Doctor Johnson Mrs ...
... Writes to a Confidential Friend- The Advice Given to Her - Withdraws from Town Theatricals- Visits Bath with One of Her Daughters - Ludicrous Scene at One of the Libraries - The Author's Opinion of Her Conduct · Doctor Johnson Mrs ...
Pagina xiv
... Rosalind Her Supporters - Compared with Her Enchanting Mother- Mrs. Jordan at Boulogne - Col . Frederick Fitzclarence's Generous Letter- The Mother Writes to the Unfortunate - Retires to Versailles and St. Cloud - xiv CONTENTS.
... Rosalind Her Supporters - Compared with Her Enchanting Mother- Mrs. Jordan at Boulogne - Col . Frederick Fitzclarence's Generous Letter- The Mother Writes to the Unfortunate - Retires to Versailles and St. Cloud - xiv CONTENTS.
Pagina 19
... writer of inimitable force and effect ; but as his sense was profound , and his remarks far from obvious , he seems to have become the father of a style so curt and oracular that he needs meditation as much for the terms he uses , as ...
... writer of inimitable force and effect ; but as his sense was profound , and his remarks far from obvious , he seems to have become the father of a style so curt and oracular that he needs meditation as much for the terms he uses , as ...
Pagina 30
... writer , or inapplicable to a modern people and language . If we write from ourselves , we are perpetually unlike either Greeks or Romans , and can say little that does not involve some solecism . If we assume to be ancients , our best ...
... writer , or inapplicable to a modern people and language . If we write from ourselves , we are perpetually unlike either Greeks or Romans , and can say little that does not involve some solecism . If we assume to be ancients , our best ...
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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...