Mrs. Jordan, Volumen2Grolier Society, 1800 |
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... equally powerful , which condemns this vulture to be blood - stained , or unsustained at all . " Draw them back to thee ! " Gross , unnatural flattery ; their preservation is surely as dear to the goddess as their propagation ; nay ...
... equally powerful , which condemns this vulture to be blood - stained , or unsustained at all . " Draw them back to thee ! " Gross , unnatural flattery ; their preservation is surely as dear to the goddess as their propagation ; nay ...
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... equally between the two patent theatres . For this devotion of herself , from October to the April following , she drew from each treasury £ 2,000 , that is , including £ 500 for a benefit , and she commenced at Covent Garden on the 3d ...
... equally between the two patent theatres . For this devotion of herself , from October to the April following , she drew from each treasury £ 2,000 , that is , including £ 500 for a benefit , and she commenced at Covent Garden on the 3d ...
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... equally obsti- nate , it would be a matter of some difficulty to protect them all . On this occasion , I remember , Mr. Bull made a lamentable mistake , from having left his spelling- book at home , when he started to visit M. Otto , in ...
... equally obsti- nate , it would be a matter of some difficulty to protect them all . On this occasion , I remember , Mr. Bull made a lamentable mistake , from having left his spelling- book at home , when he started to visit M. Otto , in ...
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... equally fitted to that of Dodd , and could go nearly to the breadth of Munden , little as he was . Cherry was a native of Limerick , cotemporary with Mrs. Jordan , and his father was a bookseller . He therefore could not say , with John ...
... equally fitted to that of Dodd , and could go nearly to the breadth of Munden , little as he was . Cherry was a native of Limerick , cotemporary with Mrs. Jordan , and his father was a bookseller . He therefore could not say , with John ...
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... equally fit for the character ; but he was not the chan- cellor , who resembled Hamlet - ecce signum ! as Falstaff would say . Hamlet is a character of indecision . “ Sure , he that made us , with such large discourse , Looking before ...
... equally fit for the character ; but he was not the chan- cellor , who resembled Hamlet - ecce signum ! as Falstaff would say . Hamlet is a character of indecision . “ Sure , he that made us , with such large discourse , Looking before ...
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Página 258 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...