Memoirs of Mrs. Inchbald: Including Her Familiar Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Persons of Her Time. To which are Added The Massacre, and A Case of Conscience; Now First Published from Her Autograph Copies, Volume 1R. Bentley, 1833 |
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... interest that captivated the fancy . Her mind had a very early inclining to criti- cism and satire . Among her books she found the works of Dr. Young , and now began to read his Universal Passion . ' Towards evening she • walked to ...
... interest that captivated the fancy . Her mind had a very early inclining to criti- cism and satire . Among her books she found the works of Dr. Young , and now began to read his Universal Passion . ' Towards evening she • walked to ...
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... interests when the lamp of life feebly glimmers to its close . But here at all events is passion , though it is not amiable ; and she must have gained no slight con- trol over her impediment , to declaim the language vehemently . She ...
... interests when the lamp of life feebly glimmers to its close . But here at all events is passion , though it is not amiable ; and she must have gained no slight con- trol over her impediment , to declaim the language vehemently . She ...
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... ere long , making the same gentle sacrifice to their interest . But she was soon to experience more of the an- noyances of those comedians " who chance to travel , " as Hamlet says . In the evening MRS . INCHBALD . 47.
... ere long , making the same gentle sacrifice to their interest . But she was soon to experience more of the an- noyances of those comedians " who chance to travel , " as Hamlet says . In the evening MRS . INCHBALD . 47.
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... interest of the principal , and is apt to insinuate itself as a resource in case the original occupation should fail him : this slowly begets a feeling of inconveniences , ( and all pursuits have them , ) which would never have been ...
... interest of the principal , and is apt to insinuate itself as a resource in case the original occupation should fail him : this slowly begets a feeling of inconveniences , ( and all pursuits have them , ) which would never have been ...
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... On the contrary , as its representa- tive , " His heart untravell'd fondly turns to home . " He has for the most part little facility in languages , and none of that prévenance that interests others , and MRS . INCHBALD . 63.
... On the contrary , as its representa- tive , " His heart untravell'd fondly turns to home . " He has for the most part little facility in languages , and none of that prévenance that interests others , and MRS . INCHBALD . 63.
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Memoirs of Mrs. Inchbald: Including Her Familiar Correspondence ..., Volume 1 James Boaden Visualização integral - 1833 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
acquaintance acted actor actress admiration amusement appears arrived attended beautiful brother called Catholic character Colman comedy compliments connexions Covent-Garden DEAR MADAM dear Muse Digges dined doubt Edinburgh engagement Eusèbe farce father George Simpson Gisborne give Glan GURET happy Hardinge Harris Holcroft honour hope husband Inchbald Jane Shore Kemble Kemble family lady Leicester Square letter lived lodgings London Lord manager mind Miss month morning mother never night Norwich occasion pantomime passed performed person piece play pleasure pounds present racter reader received rehearsal returned Richard Griffith salary School for Scandal seems sent Siddons Simple Story Simpson Sir Charles Bunbury sister Dolly sister Hunt stage Standingfield Street Sunday suppose Tate Wilkinson theatre theatrical thing thought tion took town tragedy TRICASTIN Twiss usual virtue walked week Whitfield wife wish write wrote
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Página 155 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
Página 208 - You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both! If it be you that stir these daughters...
Página 208 - Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button. Thank you, sir. Do you see this? Look on her, look, her lips, Look there, look there!
Página 144 - Sir Giles Overreach, how is it with Your honourable daughter ? Has her honour Slept well to-night? or, will her honour please To accept this monkey, dog, or paraquit,5 (This is state in ladies), or my eldest son To be her page, and wait upon her trencher...
Página 145 - We worldly men, when we see friends and kinsmen Past hope sunk in their fortunes, lend no hand To lift them up, but rather set our feet Upon their heads, to press them to the bottom.
Página 276 - Guided by a wish, that the reflecting reader may experience the sensation, which an attention to circumstances like these, must excite ; he is desired to imagine seventeen years elapsed, since he has seen or heard of any of those persons who, in the foregoing part of this narrative have been introduced to his acquaintance ; — and then, supposing himself at the period of those seventeen years, follow the sequel of their history.
Página 340 - What mortal eye can fix'd behold? Who stalks his round, an hideous form, Howling amidst the midnight storm ; Or throws him on the ridgy steep Of some loose hanging rock to sleep...
Página 41 - A course of small, quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as to be misunderstood, with now and then a look of kindness, and little or nothing said upon it, leaves Nature for your mistress, and she fashions it to her mind.
Página 317 - ... but agrees with the verb, or is governed by the verb or the preposition, expressed or understood ; as, " Thou art wiser than I ;" that is,
Página 282 - Save me!" Her voice unmanned him. His long-restrained tears now burst forth, and, seeing her relapsing into the swoon, he cried out eagerly to recall her. Her name did not, however, come to his recollection — nor any name but this : " Miss Milner — dear Miss Milner...