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... actress in their old age . They were both of them tall and comely per- sonages . The mother had a somewhat austere stateliness of manner ; but it seems to have been from her that the family inherited their genius and force of character ...
... actress in their old age . They were both of them tall and comely per- sonages . The mother had a somewhat austere stateliness of manner ; but it seems to have been from her that the family inherited their genius and force of character ...
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... actress of consider- able celebrity , who laid claims to the management of the same theatre . She dropped them , however , for a stipulated sum . Some years afterward , Mr. Stephen Kemble removed from Edinburgh , to conduct the theatre ...
... actress of consider- able celebrity , who laid claims to the management of the same theatre . She dropped them , however , for a stipulated sum . Some years afterward , Mr. Stephen Kemble removed from Edinburgh , to conduct the theatre ...
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... actress , she offers a striking and pleasing resemblance of her . She has a full share of the noble air and elocution of her departed sister , and more varied and amusing powers of conversation . Miss Elizabeth Kemble acted for some ...
... actress , she offers a striking and pleasing resemblance of her . She has a full share of the noble air and elocution of her departed sister , and more varied and amusing powers of conversation . Miss Elizabeth Kemble acted for some ...
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... actress's birth - place was Brecon , or Brecknon , in South Wales . A friend has obligingly written to me as follows re- specting the house in which Mrs. Siddons was born : “ It is a public - house in the high street of this town ...
... actress's birth - place was Brecon , or Brecknon , in South Wales . A friend has obligingly written to me as follows re- specting the house in which Mrs. Siddons was born : “ It is a public - house in the high street of this town ...
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... actress that lasted for life . George Greatheed , though unsuccessful as a poet , was a most honourable and estimable man . wrote the " Regent , " an indifferent tragedy , and having joined the Della Cruscans , came under the savage ...
... actress that lasted for life . George Greatheed , though unsuccessful as a poet , was a most honourable and estimable man . wrote the " Regent , " an indifferent tragedy , and having joined the Della Cruscans , came under the savage ...
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Page 119 - Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear ; And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crown'd withal.
Page 125 - All causes shall give way : I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd.
Page 124 - Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
Page 51 - Pity it is, that the momentary beauties flowing from an harmonious elocution, cannot like those of poetry be their own record! That the animated graces of the player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that presents them; or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory, or imperfect attestation of a few surviving spectators.
Page 122 - Are you a man ? MACB. Ay, and a bold one, that dare look on that Which might appal the devil. LADY M. O proper stuff ! This is the very painting of your fear : This is the air-drawn dagger which, you said, Led you to Duncan. O, these flaws and starts, Impostors to true fear, would well become A woman's story at a winter's fire, Authorized by her grandam. Shame itself ! Why do you make such faces ? When all 's done, You look but on a stool.
Page 120 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
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Page 123 - Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale! Light thickens, and the crow...
Page 121 - 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.
Page 94 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me...