Mrs. Jordan, Том 2Grolier Society, 1800 |
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... Managers Suffer by These Natural Im- pediments - Kemble without Heroines , Resorts to Mono- drames - The Antiquary Admires His Richard , but Has a Long List of Errors in the Getting Up of the Play- France and Banting - King Henry Not ...
... Managers Suffer by These Natural Im- pediments - Kemble without Heroines , Resorts to Mono- drames - The Antiquary Admires His Richard , but Has a Long List of Errors in the Getting Up of the Play- France and Banting - King Henry Not ...
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... Manager- The " Marriage Promise , " by Allingham - Mrs. Jordan's Emma Harvey - The Author Curtails " Falstaff's Wed- ding , " for R. Palmer - Hamlet the Dane , His Excesses - Death of James Aickin , Misses Kemble in the Field -And the ...
... Manager- The " Marriage Promise , " by Allingham - Mrs. Jordan's Emma Harvey - The Author Curtails " Falstaff's Wed- ding , " for R. Palmer - Hamlet the Dane , His Excesses - Death of James Aickin , Misses Kemble in the Field -And the ...
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... Manager , Jones — And the Danes in His Com- pany - Poor Old Barrett Provided For by Her - Others Relieved , from Early Knowledge - Actions for Defama- tion - Corri and His Libels - Assails the Friends of Mrs. Jordan as Well as Herself ...
... Manager , Jones — And the Danes in His Com- pany - Poor Old Barrett Provided For by Her - Others Relieved , from Early Knowledge - Actions for Defama- tion - Corri and His Libels - Assails the Friends of Mrs. Jordan as Well as Herself ...
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... Rolla , and the maternal dis- traction of Cora , alike proceeding from the pen of the now industrious manager . That was done with this play , that I do not know to have been achieved in any other . With 22 MRS . JORDAN.
... Rolla , and the maternal dis- traction of Cora , alike proceeding from the pen of the now industrious manager . That was done with this play , that I do not know to have been achieved in any other . With 22 MRS . JORDAN.
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... manager , had clearly no resources ; he was diligent and manly , but he was inferior , both as an actor and a man of reading , to Kemble , and it seemed absurd that the latter should be in the company at all , unless he directed it ...
... manager , had clearly no resources ; he was diligent and manly , but he was inferior , both as an actor and a man of reading , to Kemble , and it seemed absurd that the latter should be in the company at all , unless he directed it ...
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Стр. 258 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder...
Стр. 100 - What is a man, If his chief good, and market of his time, Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before, and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused.
Стр. 71 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.
Стр. 160 - Twas a child that so did thrive In grace and feature, As Heaven and Nature seem'd to strive Which own'd the creature. Years he number'd scarce thirteen When Fates turn'd cruel, Yet three fill'd zodiacs had he been The stage's jewel...
Стр. 145 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Стр. 160 - Weep with me, all you that read This little story : And know, for whom a tear you shed Death's self is sorry. 'Twas a child that so did thrive In grace and feature, As heaven and nature seemed to strive Which owned the creature.
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...
Стр. 25 - Oh, holy Nature ! thou dost never plead in vain. There is not, of our earth, a creature bearing form, and life, human or savage — native of the forest wild, or giddy air-— around whose parent bosom, thou...