The Life of Mrs. Jordan: Including Original Private Correspondence, and Numerous Anecdotes of Her Contemporaries, المجلد 1E. Bull, 1831 - 368 من الصفحات |
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... Tate Wilkinson - His determination in her favour- Her first appearance was in tragedy , in the part of Calista- her reception - the Greenwood Laddie , and its effect - Tate prophesies that she will reach the summit - Change of name at ...
... Tate Wilkinson - His determination in her favour- Her first appearance was in tragedy , in the part of Calista- her reception - the Greenwood Laddie , and its effect - Tate prophesies that she will reach the summit - Change of name at ...
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... Tate Wilkinson's benefit at Leeds , Mrs. Jordan arrives to act for him - The Yorkshire prudery— Mrs. Jordan at Harrowgate on her way to join Mr. Jackson at Edinburgh - Mrs . Siddons at York - Mary , Queen of Scots - Mrs . Fawcett's ...
... Tate Wilkinson's benefit at Leeds , Mrs. Jordan arrives to act for him - The Yorkshire prudery— Mrs. Jordan at Harrowgate on her way to join Mr. Jackson at Edinburgh - Mrs . Siddons at York - Mary , Queen of Scots - Mrs . Fawcett's ...
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... Tate Wilkinson - His determination in her favour- Her first appearance was in tragedy , in the part of Calista— her reception - the Greenwood Laddie , and its effect - Tate prophesies that she will reach the summit - Change of name at ...
... Tate Wilkinson - His determination in her favour- Her first appearance was in tragedy , in the part of Calista— her reception - the Greenwood Laddie , and its effect - Tate prophesies that she will reach the summit - Change of name at ...
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... Tate acknowledged a sudden " impulse of regard , " and the parties separated with mutual good wishes , and ... Wilkinson had detected no symp- toms of comedy in the heroine of the evening ; but he did them the credit to believe , that ...
... Tate acknowledged a sudden " impulse of regard , " and the parties separated with mutual good wishes , and ... Wilkinson had detected no symp- toms of comedy in the heroine of the evening ; but he did them the credit to believe , that ...
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... Tate Wilkinson , is likely to stand well with all the principal gentry in the great towns which he visits . Literature natu- rally allies itself to the stage ; and what lover of letters would be insensible to the social claims of one ...
... Tate Wilkinson , is likely to stand well with all the principal gentry in the great towns which he visits . Literature natu- rally allies itself to the stage ; and what lover of letters would be insensible to the social claims of one ...
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الصفحة 68 - O fellow, come, the song we had last night: Mark it, Cesario; it is old and plain: The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
الصفحة 11 - And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
الصفحة 246 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee: — I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not , fatal vision , sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
الصفحة 324 - E'en wondered at because he dropt no sooner; Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years; Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more, Till, like a clock worn out with eating Time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still.
الصفحة 106 - Or ounce, or tiger, hog, or bearded goat, All other parts remaining as they were ; And they, so perfect is their misery, Not once perceive their foul disfigurement, But boast themselves more comely than before ; And all their friends and native home forget, To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty.
الصفحة 165 - This fellow might be in's time a great buyer of land, with his statutes, his recognizances, his fines, his double vouchers, his recoveries: is this the fine of his fines, and the recovery of his recoveries, to have his fine pate full of fine dirt?
الصفحة 230 - Audience, than they us'd to be: But when the Actors were in Possession of that forwarder Space, to advance upon, the Voice was then more in the Centre of the House, so that the most distant Ear had scarce the least Doubt, or Difficulty in hearing what fell from the weakest Utterance: All Objects were thus drawn nearer to the Sense; every...
الصفحة 68 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
الصفحة 140 - Commons. (42) you still bleed from the wounds of his talons. You crouched, and still crouch, beneath his rage.
الصفحة 209 - English artists are the most engaged, a variety, a fancy, and a dignity derived from the higher branches, which even those who professed them in a superior manner did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history, and the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits he appeared not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere.