The Life of Mrs. Jordan: Including Original Private Correspondence, and Numerous Anecdotes of Her Contemporaries, Volume 1Edward Bull, 1831 |
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... question of the Regency- Display of Burke - His vehement dexterity - King's reco- very , sympathy of the Stage - Duel between the Duke of York and Colonel Lennox - The Drawing - room - The Opera- house destroyed by fire - The French ...
... question of the Regency- Display of Burke - His vehement dexterity - King's reco- very , sympathy of the Stage - Duel between the Duke of York and Colonel Lennox - The Drawing - room - The Opera- house destroyed by fire - The French ...
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... question . She was heard through the play with the greatest attention and sympathy , and the manager began to tremble at the absurdity , as he reasonably thought it , of Calista arising from the dead , and rushing before an audience in ...
... question . She was heard through the play with the greatest attention and sympathy , and the manager began to tremble at the absurdity , as he reasonably thought it , of Calista arising from the dead , and rushing before an audience in ...
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... be supposed that on the night of her benefit she sought the doubtful aid in question , but it proved a treacherous ally . She was unfortunately lame at the time , and intoxicated to stupidity by the fumes THE LIFE OF MRS . JORDAN . 47.
... be supposed that on the night of her benefit she sought the doubtful aid in question , but it proved a treacherous ally . She was unfortunately lame at the time , and intoxicated to stupidity by the fumes THE LIFE OF MRS . JORDAN . 47.
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... which had given more relief to his passion , " Than the light airs and recollected terms Of these most brisk and giddy - paced times . " He follows its repetition by this question to the youth THE LIFE OF MRS . JORDAN . 77.
... which had given more relief to his passion , " Than the light airs and recollected terms Of these most brisk and giddy - paced times . " He follows its repetition by this question to the youth THE LIFE OF MRS . JORDAN . 77.
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... question to the youth at his side . " Duke . How dost thou like this tune ? Vio . It gives a very echo to the seat Where love is thron'd . Duke . Thou dost speak masterly . " in The player who dismissed this short passage , the language ...
... question to the youth at his side . " Duke . How dost thou like this tune ? Vio . It gives a very echo to the seat Where love is thron'd . Duke . Thou dost speak masterly . " in The player who dismissed this short passage , the language ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Abington actor actress admiration amusement appearance applause attraction audience Bannister beauty benefit called character charm Cibber Colman comedy comic Country Girl Covent Garden Covent Garden theatre Cumberland Cymbeline Drury Lane theatre Duke effect epilogue equal excite farce fashionable favour favourite Fawcett Garrick genius graceful Harry heard heart heroine honour humour Jordan Kemble King lady laugh Leeds length Lennox London Lord Macbeth Macklin manager ment merit Miss Farren Miss Francis nature never night occasion opera Othello Palmer passion performance perhaps play poet present Prince Prince Hoare profession racter rendered revived rival Romp royal scene School for Scandal season seemed Shakspeare Sheridan shewed Siddons sion sister Smith stage style summer talent Tate Tate Wilkinson theatrical thing thought tion town tragedy usual Viola voice Vortigern Wilkinson woman writer Wroughton York young youth
Passagens conhecidas
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.