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 ...Richard Bentley, 1833 |
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... turned home on the 31st , having passed the two preceding days at Bury . From this time " edg- ing , " as Shakspeare says , " towards her purpose , " she carries on a clandestine correspondence with her brother George and her sister ...
... turned home on the 31st , having passed the two preceding days at Bury . From this time " edg- ing , " as Shakspeare says , " towards her purpose , " she carries on a clandestine correspondence with her brother George and her sister ...
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... turning round her head , she saw the very man whom she had flown from so precipi- tately ; he had followed her , from curiosity , to see what she really would do with herself . She now meditated another flight , in her shame at ...
... turning round her head , she saw the very man whom she had flown from so precipi- tately ; he had followed her , from curiosity , to see what she really would do with herself . She now meditated another flight , in her shame at ...
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... turned she called upon him in person , but did not see him , though she was four times at his door . As the engagement was given only to en- snare , it was broken without much shame , and their connexion seems here to have terminated ...
... turned she called upon him in person , but did not see him , though she was four times at his door . As the engagement was given only to en- snare , it was broken without much shame , and their connexion seems here to have terminated ...
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... turning however the next day to business ; and his desire to amuse her led him to show her King's Weston on this occasion they had a chariot . Bath she visited with an agreeable party on the 13th : they walked to the chapel , cathedral ...
... turning however the next day to business ; and his desire to amuse her led him to show her King's Weston on this occasion they had a chariot . Bath she visited with an agreeable party on the 13th : they walked to the chapel , cathedral ...
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... turned , but was less intimate with her than he had formerly been . She corresponds regularly now with her family , and much with Mrs. Bartley , a Catholic lady , and is again a constant visitor to the Chapel . In all probability she ...
... turned , but was less intimate with her than he had formerly been . She corresponds regularly now with her family , and much with Mrs. Bartley , a Catholic lady , and is again a constant visitor to the Chapel . In all probability she ...
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Memoirs of Mrs. Inchbald: Including Her Familiar Correspondence ..., Volume 1 James Boaden Visualização integral - 1833 |
Memoirs of Mrs. Inchbald: Including Her Familiar Correspondence ..., Volume 1 James Boaden Visualização integral - 1833 |
Memoirs of Mrs. Inchbald: Including Her Familiar Correspondence ..., Volume 1 James Boaden Visualização integral - 1833 |
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 frequently George Simpson Gisborne give Glan GURET happy Hardinge Harris Haymarket 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 Richard Griffith salary School for Scandal seems sent Siddons Simple Story Simpson Sir Charles Bunbury sister Dolly 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 157 - 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 210 - 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 33 - Faith, once or twice she heaved the name of "father" Pantingly forth, as if it pressed her heart; Cried "Sisters! sisters! Shame of ladies! sisters! Kent! father! sisters! What, i
Página 147 - 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 188 - Your regular and continent life gives you the assurance of many healthful years ; and your uncommon talents, having now forced themselves into notice, will crown you with growing reputation. If I could write, I would : I cannot — so you must receive esteem instead of flattery, and sincerity for wit, when I swear there is no WOMAN I more truly admire, nor any MAN whose abilities I more highly esteem.
Página 210 - 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 278 - 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 342 - 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 319 - ... 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 284 - 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...