The Life of Mrs. Jordan: Including Original Private Correspondence, and Numerous Anecdotes of Her Contemporaries, Volume 1Edward Bull, 1831 |
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... feel from the first , is felt at length by the husband himself . Every succeeding year weakens the attachment , and strengthens the objections to it . The parties are separated , and the wife deserted is thrown upon a provision , with ...
... feel from the first , is felt at length by the husband himself . Every succeeding year weakens the attachment , and strengthens the objections to it . The parties are separated , and the wife deserted is thrown upon a provision , with ...
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... feel it , or was on the opposition side of the house ; he said she would be an excellent Filch ; and here he prophesied , for she stole away the hearts of the town , and tried all his skill as a manager , great as it confessedly was ...
... feel it , or was on the opposition side of the house ; he said she would be an excellent Filch ; and here he prophesied , for she stole away the hearts of the town , and tried all his skill as a manager , great as it confessedly was ...
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... , certainly , was no stoic , and she would at any time have dis- dained to affect an indifference which she did not feel . All that was woman about her anticipated her reception by the manager and the performers at Leeds.
... , certainly , was no stoic , and she would at any time have dis- dained to affect an indifference which she did not feel . All that was woman about her anticipated her reception by the manager and the performers at Leeds.
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... feel it in my bones yet . I'm a drum , sir- A drum at midnight ; ran , tan , tan , tan , tan , sir ! Do you take ME for Juleita ? —I'm a page , sir , That brought a letter from the Duke of Medina , To have one Signor Alphonso ( just ...
... feel it in my bones yet . I'm a drum , sir- A drum at midnight ; ran , tan , tan , tan , tan , sir ! Do you take ME for Juleita ? —I'm a page , sir , That brought a letter from the Duke of Medina , To have one Signor Alphonso ( just ...
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... feel ashamed - I allude to the practice of exposing what should be the sacred mysteries of madness to the derision of a public audience . The inside of a bedlam , in a variety of tragedies and comedies , was emptied out upon the stage ...
... feel ashamed - I allude to the practice of exposing what should be the sacred mysteries of madness to the derision of a public audience . The inside of a bedlam , in a variety of tragedies and comedies , was emptied out upon the stage ...
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The Life of Mrs. Jordan: Including Original Private Correspondence ..., Volume 1 James Boaden Visualização integral - 1831 |
The Life of Mrs. Jordan: Including Original Private Correspondence ..., Volume 1 James Boaden Visualização integral - 1831 |
The Life of Mrs. Jordan: Including Original Private Correspondence ..., Volume 1 James Boaden Visualização integral - 1831 |
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Página 62 - 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.
Página 158 - 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?
Página 7 - 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?
Página 316 - 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.
Página 100 - 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.
Página 240 - Is this a dagger, which I see before me, The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee : — I ha-ye 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 ? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw.
Página 62 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Página 134 - Commons. (42) you still bleed from the wounds of his talons. You crouched, and still crouch, beneath his rage.
Página 203 - 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.
Página 150 - I am so unhappy to have liven to see this unhappy day, in the which I am required, by direction from my most gracious sovereign, to do an act which God and the law forbiddeth.