Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons: Interspersed with Anecdotes of Authors and ActorsGibbings, 1893 - 471 páginas |
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... appearance nor any proof ever after made . ' Her brother the Duke was permitted by Cromwell to embark from the Isle of Wight for Holland about the latter end of the year 1652 , where he arrived in safety with his tutor Lovel , who had ...
... appearance nor any proof ever after made . ' Her brother the Duke was permitted by Cromwell to embark from the Isle of Wight for Holland about the latter end of the year 1652 , where he arrived in safety with his tutor Lovel , who had ...
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... appearance of Mrs. Siddons in London . Cheltenham at that time was the resort of fashionable life , but of fashionable life only . The brise of gadding from the capital had not then stung every rank , and made the most moderate fortunes ...
... appearance of Mrs. Siddons in London . Cheltenham at that time was the resort of fashionable life , but of fashionable life only . The brise of gadding from the capital had not then stung every rank , and made the most moderate fortunes ...
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... appearance , and trust her fame and her interest to the mercy of rivals in possession of the public favour , and to the generosity of Mr. Garrick . One like myself , so intimately acquainted with the peculiarity as speakers of the whole ...
... appearance , and trust her fame and her interest to the mercy of rivals in possession of the public favour , and to the generosity of Mr. Garrick . One like myself , so intimately acquainted with the peculiarity as speakers of the whole ...
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... appearance on the London boards in the character of Portia ; she was announced as a young lady ' merely ; and the arts of instilling favour into the town , if they were then known , were not in her case prac- tised the play - bills were ...
... appearance on the London boards in the character of Portia ; she was announced as a young lady ' merely ; and the arts of instilling favour into the town , if they were then known , were not in her case prac- tised the play - bills were ...
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... appearance in Richard , which was by command of their Majesties , on the 5th of June . But , whatever he thought of her , and whatever might be his intentions , he closed his own brilliant career five days afterwards , in the character ...
... appearance in Richard , which was by command of their Majesties , on the 5th of June . But , whatever he thought of her , and whatever might be his intentions , he closed his own brilliant career five days afterwards , in the character ...
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Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons: Interspersed with Anecdotes of Authors and Actors James Boaden Visualização integral - 1893 |
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Página 298 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me : I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Página 233 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that: You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Página 307 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose...
Página 444 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Página 322 - I have almost forgot the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir, As life were in't : I have supp'd full with horrors ; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me.
Página 314 - Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour 's at the stake.
Página 297 - ... Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here ; And fill me, from the crown to the toe...
Página 42 - Alas ! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio ; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy ; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times ; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is ! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.
Página 252 - For grief is proud and makes his owner stoop. To me and to the state of my great grief Let kings assemble; for my grief's so great That no supporter but the huge firm earth Can hold it up : here I and sorrows sit ; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Página 211 - Looking tranquillity ! it strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.