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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... least to the warmest wishes of her friends , I accepted them with pride and pleasure . Permitted to use the very documents themselves , I have printed them exactly from the ORIGINALS in her own hand - writing ; they are un- studied ...
... least to the warmest wishes of her friends , I accepted them with pride and pleasure . Permitted to use the very documents themselves , I have printed them exactly from the ORIGINALS in her own hand - writing ; they are un- studied ...
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... least , infer the temper , with which the present work will be written ; and rely upon every becoming delicacy in treating the subject . I see the delightful and much - lamented mother affectionately honoured in her children ; and , not ...
... least , infer the temper , with which the present work will be written ; and rely upon every becoming delicacy in treating the subject . I see the delightful and much - lamented mother affectionately honoured in her children ; and , not ...
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... least to mortify them by the use of that of Bland . It is obvious , from the accounts of Wilkinson and Hitchcock , that the three sisters , whom I have already alluded to , were well educated and ac- complished women ; and that they ...
... least to mortify them by the use of that of Bland . It is obvious , from the accounts of Wilkinson and Hitchcock , that the three sisters , whom I have already alluded to , were well educated and ac- complished women ; and that they ...
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... least to his courage , and the latter was often necessary to defend him in the unbridled indulgence that through life he permitted to the former . He was said to be the general lover in his theatrical company ; and , THE LIFE OF MRS ...
... least to his courage , and the latter was often necessary to defend him in the unbridled indulgence that through life he permitted to the former . He was said to be the general lover in his theatrical company ; and , THE LIFE OF MRS ...
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... . Among the obvious reasons which appear to have broken off the union we are speaking of , those that respect the advantage of the whole family were probably least urged , and yet most felt . They 14 THE LIFE OF MRS . JORDAN .
... . Among the obvious reasons which appear to have broken off the union we are speaking of , those that respect the advantage of the whole family were probably least urged , and yet most felt . They 14 THE LIFE OF MRS . JORDAN .
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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.