The Life of Mrs. Jordan: Including Original Private Correspondence, and Numerous Anecdotes of Her Contemporaries, Band 1E. Bull, 1831 - 368 Seiten |
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... excellent in Old Winterton - Contrasted with Fawcett- Wroughton appointed stage manager - Mrs . Jordan and her salary - Ballet - Miss Parissot and the Triumph of Love- Madame Hilligsberg , an Atalanta in running - Dowton re- commended ...
... excellent in Old Winterton - Contrasted with Fawcett- Wroughton appointed stage manager - Mrs . Jordan and her salary - Ballet - Miss Parissot and the Triumph of Love- Madame Hilligsberg , an Atalanta in running - Dowton re- commended ...
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... excellent novelist . Her husband had been the curate of Wilkinson's father at the Savoy ; and the imagined exemption of that place from the oper- ation of the marriage act actually exposed the King's chaplain to transportation . The ...
... excellent novelist . Her husband had been the curate of Wilkinson's father at the Savoy ; and the imagined exemption of that place from the oper- ation of the marriage act actually exposed the King's chaplain to transportation . The ...
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... excellent actress by the York company - the art of mortifying a rival . This art was practised in its highest per- fection , by a Mrs. Ward , a competitor with the Jordan in the male attire , and remarkably fond of the display . This ...
... excellent actress by the York company - the art of mortifying a rival . This art was practised in its highest per- fection , by a Mrs. Ward , a competitor with the Jordan in the male attire , and remarkably fond of the display . This ...
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... a very moderate house when she appeared . But here moderation stopped . She at once dis- played such consummate art , with such bewitching nature - such excellent sense , and such innocent simplicity THE LIFE OF MRS . JORDAN . 69.
... a very moderate house when she appeared . But here moderation stopped . She at once dis- played such consummate art , with such bewitching nature - such excellent sense , and such innocent simplicity THE LIFE OF MRS . JORDAN . 69.
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... excellent sense , and such innocent simplicity that her auditors were boundless in their -- plaudits , and so warm in her praises , when they left the theatre , that their friends at home would not give credit to the extent of their ...
... excellent sense , and such innocent simplicity that her auditors were boundless in their -- plaudits , and so warm in her praises , when they left the theatre , that their friends at home would not give credit to the extent of their ...
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Seite 68 - O fellow, come, the song we had last night: Mark it, Cesario; it is old and plain: The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Seite 11 - And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
Seite 246 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee: — I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not , fatal vision , sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Seite 324 - E'en wondered at because he dropt no sooner; Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years; Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more, Till, like a clock worn out with eating Time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still.
Seite 106 - Or ounce, or tiger, hog, or bearded goat, All other parts remaining as they were ; And they, so perfect is their misery, Not once perceive their foul disfigurement, But boast themselves more comely than before ; And all their friends and native home forget, To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty.
Seite 165 - This fellow might be in's time a great buyer of land, with his statutes, his recognizances, his fines, his double vouchers, his recoveries: is this the fine of his fines, and the recovery of his recoveries, to have his fine pate full of fine dirt?
Seite 230 - Audience, than they us'd to be: But when the Actors were in Possession of that forwarder Space, to advance upon, the Voice was then more in the Centre of the House, so that the most distant Ear had scarce the least Doubt, or Difficulty in hearing what fell from the weakest Utterance: All Objects were thus drawn nearer to the Sense; every...
Seite 68 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Seite 140 - Commons. (42) you still bleed from the wounds of his talons. You crouched, and still crouch, beneath his rage.
Seite 209 - English artists are the most engaged, a variety, a fancy, and a dignity derived from the higher branches, which even those who professed them in a superior manner did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history, and the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits he appeared not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere.