Helena Faucit (Lady Martin)W. Blackwood, 1900 - 416 páginas |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 100
Página 3
... never saw ; for by this time he had separated from his wife , taking upon himself the care of their sons , and leaving to her the care of their daughters . It was no small compensation for the lack of parental tenderness , that she was ...
... never saw ; for by this time he had separated from his wife , taking upon himself the care of their sons , and leaving to her the care of their daughters . It was no small compensation for the lack of parental tenderness , that she was ...
Página 4
... never can I forget our getting them up to act as a surprise for our governess on her birthday . We always prepared some " sur- prise " on this occasion , or what she kindly took as one . The brothers were arrayed in all the fur ...
... never can I forget our getting them up to act as a surprise for our governess on her birthday . We always prepared some " sur- prise " on this occasion , or what she kindly took as one . The brothers were arrayed in all the fur ...
Página 6
... never saw , and that distant voice I never heard again . How vividly some things remain with us ! I can shut my eyes and recall the whole scene , -see and hear all that passed , and thrill again with my old fright and pleasure ! The ...
... never saw , and that distant voice I never heard again . How vividly some things remain with us ! I can shut my eyes and recall the whole scene , -see and hear all that passed , and thrill again with my old fright and pleasure ! The ...
Página 9
... never refused , although most delicate in health , to give me largely of his time . How grateful I was , and am to him ! His death , which happened far too soon for my advantage - though not for his , it released him from a life of ...
... never refused , although most delicate in health , to give me largely of his time . How grateful I was , and am to him ! His death , which happened far too soon for my advantage - though not for his , it released him from a life of ...
Página 10
... never a precocious child . So until I appeared about three years later on the London stage , my life was very studious and very quiet . The friend here alluded to was Mr Percival Farren , brother of the celebrated comedian William ...
... never a precocious child . So until I appeared about three years later on the London stage , my life was very studious and very quiet . The friend here alluded to was Mr Percival Farren , brother of the celebrated comedian William ...
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Palavras e frases frequentes
acting actors actress admiration afterwards Anne Bracegirdle Antigone appeared applause artist Athelwold audience Beatrice beautiful Belvidera Blackwood called character Charles Kemble charm Covent Garden critic Crown 8vo dear delight Demy 8vo Desdemona Diary drama dress Drury Lane Dublin Edinburgh engagement expression exquisite Fcap feeling felt friends genius George Eliot Geraldine Jewsbury give Glasgow grace happy Haymarket Theatre heart Helen Faucit Hermione heroine Illustrations Imogen impersonation impression Iolanthe Jewsbury Juliet Kemble kind Lady Macbeth Lady Martin letter London look Macready Macready's Manchester mind Miss Faucit Miss Helen Faucit morning nature never night noble pain passion Pauline performance play pleasure poet Portia Portraits Post 8vo Professor Queen rehearsal remember Romeo Rosalind scene Scotland Second Edition seemed seen Shakespeare Shakespearian speak spirit stage tell theatre things thought triumphs voice vols wife woman words writes wrote young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 190 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Página 25 - Svo, cloth, 6s. Piccadilly. With Illustrations by Richard Doyle. New Edition, 3s. 6d. Cheap Edition, boards, 2s. 6d. Traits and Travesties ; Social and Political. Post Svo, 10s. 6d. Episodes in a Life of Adventure ; or, Moss from a Rolling Stone.
Página 175 - Nought's had, all's spent, Where our desire is got without content : 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.
Página 126 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Página 15 - Crown 8vo, 6s. Singularly Deluded. Crown 8vo, 6s. GRANT. Bush-Life in Queensland. By AC GRANT. New Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s. GRIER. In Furthest Ind. The Narrative of Mr EDWARD CARLYON of Ellswether, in the County of Northampton, and late of the Honourable East India Company's Service, Gentleman. Wrote by his own hand in the year of grace 1697. Edited, with a few Explanatory Notes, by SYDNEY C.
Página 21 - Post 8vo, 7s. 6d. Goethe's Faust. Part I. Translated into English Verse. Second Edition, crown 8vo, 6s. Ninth Edition, fcap. 8vo, 3s. 6d. Goethe's Faust. Part II. Translated into English Verse.
Página 25 - With Excursions in the Lebanon. With Illustrations and Maps. Demy Svo, 21s. Memoir of the Life of Laurence Oliphant, and of Alice Oliphant, his Wife.
Página 31 - Fcap. Svo, 6s. Vallombrosa. Post Svo, 5s. Poems. 2 vols., 7s. 6d. Fiammetta. A Summer Idyl. Crown Svo, 7s. 6d. Conversations in a Studio. 2 vols. crown Svo, 12s. 6d. Excursions in Art and Letters. Crown Svo, 7s. 6d. A Poet's Portfolio : Later Readings.
Página 20 - MACKENZIE. Studies in Roman Law. With Comparative Views of the Laws of France, England, and Scotland. By Lord MACKENZIE, one of the Judges of the Court of Session in Scotland.
Página 25 - Lectures (or 1898. By the Rev. THOMAS NICOL, DD, Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism in the University of Aberdeen; Author of ' Recent Explorations in Bible Lands.