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... least can but faintly glimmer through the memory and imperfect attestation of a few surviving spectators . " - CIBBER . NEW - YORK : HARPER & BROTHERS - 82 CLIFF - STREET . 18 3 4 . Juin 5 TO SAMUEL ROGERS , Esq . MY DEAR.
... least can but faintly glimmer through the memory and imperfect attestation of a few surviving spectators . " - CIBBER . NEW - YORK : HARPER & BROTHERS - 82 CLIFF - STREET . 18 3 4 . Juin 5 TO SAMUEL ROGERS , Esq . MY DEAR.
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... least , an education that might have made them independent of the stage . The sons were successively sent to the Catholic seminary at Douay , a school at that time inferior to none in Europe in discipline and tuition . They proved both ...
... least , an education that might have made them independent of the stage . The sons were successively sent to the Catholic seminary at Douay , a school at that time inferior to none in Europe in discipline and tuition . They proved both ...
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... least not a complete failure . * This mistake of the managers produced many comic remarks , that would have been of great detriment to the tragic laurels of my friend Stephen , if his talents in the graver drama had been greater than ...
... least not a complete failure . * This mistake of the managers produced many comic remarks , that would have been of great detriment to the tragic laurels of my friend Stephen , if his talents in the graver drama had been greater than ...
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... least degradation on the part of the ladies . Some of the heavenly women , therefore , allowed a kiss to their savage admirers , who took no further liberty . Mrs. Whitelock was about to go through the same ceremony , when a fit of ...
... least degradation on the part of the ladies . Some of the heavenly women , therefore , allowed a kiss to their savage admirers , who took no further liberty . Mrs. Whitelock was about to go through the same ceremony , when a fit of ...
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... least so says my learned Cambrian friend ; † who adds , that this Richard Price was a favourite at the court of Elizabeth ; and , on the authority of the family records , is stated to have held a cor- respondence with Shakspeare . It is ...
... least so says my learned Cambrian friend ; † who adds , that this Richard Price was a favourite at the court of Elizabeth ; and , on the authority of the family records , is stated to have held a cor- respondence with Shakspeare . It is ...
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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.
Page 180 - Page. Madam, there is a lady in your hall, Who begs to be admitted to your presence. Lady. Is it not one of our invited friends? Page. No, far unlike to them ; it is a stranger. Lady. How looks her countenance ? Page.
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...