Mrs. Jordan, Том 2Grolier Society, 1800 |
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... lengths - Duke of Clarence Accepts the Dedication of Northcote's Picture — Medi- cal Men Usually Wild about the Stage - The Profes- sional Policy - One Physician Supremely Ridiculous— Betty Taken to the “ Adelphi ” — A Westminster Dormi ...
... lengths - Duke of Clarence Accepts the Dedication of Northcote's Picture — Medi- cal Men Usually Wild about the Stage - The Profes- sional Policy - One Physician Supremely Ridiculous— Betty Taken to the “ Adelphi ” — A Westminster Dormi ...
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... length returned to the stage , and accepted à part in my " Aurelio and Miranda , " which I had , unadvisedly , founded upon the ro- mance of the " Monk , " to give my friend Kemble an opportunity of personifying Lewis's Ambrosio . It ...
... length returned to the stage , and accepted à part in my " Aurelio and Miranda , " which I had , unadvisedly , founded upon the ro- mance of the " Monk , " to give my friend Kemble an opportunity of personifying Lewis's Ambrosio . It ...
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... length of time . He repeated every syllable after each performer , counting poetically the measure upon his fingers , and sounding with his voice like a music - master , with a degree of earnestness beyond my power to describe . He was ...
... length of time . He repeated every syllable after each performer , counting poetically the measure upon his fingers , and sounding with his voice like a music - master , with a degree of earnestness beyond my power to describe . He was ...
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... length determines to go back to our Dia- mond , and implore her to conceal from her friends the rash step she had taken ; but these moral people do nothing by halves — she has already told them the story . Despair now sends Miss Metland ...
... length determines to go back to our Dia- mond , and implore her to conceal from her friends the rash step she had taken ; but these moral people do nothing by halves — she has already told them the story . Despair now sends Miss Metland ...
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... secured , and properly attended . " They listened to the voice of the charmer , and ordered the play to proceed . The princesses , with the exception of Elizabeth , fainted with apprehension , but were at length 44 MRS . JORDAN.
... secured , and properly attended . " They listened to the voice of the charmer , and ordered the play to proceed . The princesses , with the exception of Elizabeth , fainted with apprehension , but were at length 44 MRS . JORDAN.
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Стр. 100 - Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do;' Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.
Стр. 251 - My forbearance, he says, is beyond what he could have imagined ! But what will not a woman do who is firmly and sincerely attached ? Had he left me to starve, I never would have uttered a word to his disadvantage. I enclose you two other letters ; and in a day or two you shall see more, the rest being in the hands of the R 1. And now, my dear friend, do not hear the D. of C. unfairly abused.
Стр. 20 - ... perfectly free. It is assumed, I know, to give dignity and variety to the style ; but whatever success the attempt may sometimes have, it is always obtained at the expense of purity and of the graces that are natural and appropriate to our language. It is true that when the exigence calls for auxiliaries of all sorts, and common language becomes unequal to the demands of extraordinary thoughts, something ought to be conceded to the necessities which make " ambition virtue ;" but the allowances...
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