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... feeling which gave ample scope for the compass of voice and attitude in which he excelled . The advantages which this popularity entailed upon the igno- ble boards of the theatre in Goodman's Fields , naturally excited the resentment of ...
... feeling which gave ample scope for the compass of voice and attitude in which he excelled . The advantages which this popularity entailed upon the igno- ble boards of the theatre in Goodman's Fields , naturally excited the resentment of ...
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... feelings . The press had been for some time employed to rail against what was then termed the avaricious disposition of the Drury - lane proprietors , who grudged the expense of varying the public entertainments with a more decorative ...
... feelings . The press had been for some time employed to rail against what was then termed the avaricious disposition of the Drury - lane proprietors , who grudged the expense of varying the public entertainments with a more decorative ...
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... feeling satisfied with the fortune and fame he had acquired , he resolved to retire to the ease of private life . He dis- posed of a moiety of his interest in the patent for 37,000Z . ; and after performing the part of Don Felix in the ...
... feeling satisfied with the fortune and fame he had acquired , he resolved to retire to the ease of private life . He dis- posed of a moiety of his interest in the patent for 37,000Z . ; and after performing the part of Don Felix in the ...
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... feelings.- ( Here we are told he paused and wept . ) Whatever may be the changes of my future life , the deep im- pression I have of your kindness will always remain here ( hand upon breast ) fixed and unalterable . I will very readily ...
... feelings.- ( Here we are told he paused and wept . ) Whatever may be the changes of my future life , the deep im- pression I have of your kindness will always remain here ( hand upon breast ) fixed and unalterable . I will very readily ...
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... feeling , and in the commonest oc- currences of life was always prompt , even to the extremities of improvidence , in realising all those natural sympathies he could so beautifully describe . His own exquisite lines , Taught by the ...
... feeling , and in the commonest oc- currences of life was always prompt , even to the extremities of improvidence , in realising all those natural sympathies he could so beautifully describe . His own exquisite lines , Taught by the ...
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Página 624 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Página 601 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons: to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Página 624 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Página 834 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherits, shall dissolve ; And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind ! we are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Página 623 - My Lord, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship.
Página 668 - Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind: Her face was veiled, yet to my fancied sight, Love, sweetness, goodness in her person shined So clear, as in no face with more delight. But O as to embrace me she inclined I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.
Página 667 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Página 545 - No more the Grecian muse unrivall'd reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay : She felt a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray.
Página 883 - A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was: Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Página 511 - Unblam'd through life, lamented in thy end ; These are thy honours ! not that here thy bust Is mix'd with heroes, or with kings thy dust ; But that the worthy and the good shall say, Striking their pensive bosoms — Here lies Gay...