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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... Things Are ' -— Buys during the run of it £ 18 per annum Long Annuities , for which she pays £ 4101 . 2s . - Howard now in this country - Odd coincidence with Haswell in the play- Does the Midnight Hour ' Buys £ 200 Three per Cents ...
... Things Are ' -— Buys during the run of it £ 18 per annum Long Annuities , for which she pays £ 4101 . 2s . - Howard now in this country - Odd coincidence with Haswell in the play- Does the Midnight Hour ' Buys £ 200 Three per Cents ...
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... thing to desire ; I shall long to see the miseries of the world , since the sight of them is necessary to happiness . " Indeed , so absorbed was she in this passion , that , in her thirteenth year , she fre- quently declared " she would ...
... thing to desire ; I shall long to see the miseries of the world , since the sight of them is necessary to happiness . " Indeed , so absorbed was she in this passion , that , in her thirteenth year , she fre- quently declared " she would ...
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... thing , was in- dividual and peculiar ; and to a very nice observer sometimes made the letter itself a refutation of its contents . Whoever has read any of the numerous sketches of Mrs. Inchbald's life , will have been apprised of her ...
... thing , was in- dividual and peculiar ; and to a very nice observer sometimes made the letter itself a refutation of its contents . Whoever has read any of the numerous sketches of Mrs. Inchbald's life , will have been apprised of her ...
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... things of con- sequence had occurred since I saw the hand , it had really slipt my remembrance . You inquire , whether the pleasures of Bury fair are not worn off ? I must confess they are not ; for although , like all others , they ...
... things of con- sequence had occurred since I saw the hand , it had really slipt my remembrance . You inquire , whether the pleasures of Bury fair are not worn off ? I must confess they are not ; for although , like all others , they ...
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... . On the 10th of April she packed up her things , and wrote a farewell letter to her mother . Its insertion in this place may properly close the first chapter . VOL . I. B THE LETTER TO HER MOTHER , WHICH MRS . INCH- MRS . INCHBALD . 17.
... . On the 10th of April she packed up her things , and wrote a farewell letter to her mother . Its insertion in this place may properly close the first chapter . VOL . I. B THE LETTER TO HER MOTHER , WHICH MRS . INCH- MRS . INCHBALD . 17.
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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...