Characteristics: Sketches and EssaysHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - Počet stran: 362 |
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... playing the Surveyor , warning him against giving false testimony against his master : " If I know you well , You were the Duke's surveyor , and lost your office On the complaints of the tenants . Take good heed You charge not in your ...
... playing the Surveyor , warning him against giving false testimony against his master : " If I know you well , You were the Duke's surveyor , and lost your office On the complaints of the tenants . Take good heed You charge not in your ...
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... plays , like Corio- lanus ; and that fine actor Young , looked back with ad- miration and wonder to the figure of her Volumnia , as it lingered in his memory . " I remember her , " he writes to Mr. Campbell , more than forty years after ...
... plays , like Corio- lanus ; and that fine actor Young , looked back with ad- miration and wonder to the figure of her Volumnia , as it lingered in his memory . " I remember her , " he writes to Mr. Campbell , more than forty years after ...
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... play was till then . Mrs. Siddons contrived , in the sleep - walking scene , to discharge all ex- pression from her fine eyes , leaving only a glassy stare . Washington Irving , during his first visit to London , in 1805 , saw Mrs ...
... play was till then . Mrs. Siddons contrived , in the sleep - walking scene , to discharge all ex- pression from her fine eyes , leaving only a glassy stare . Washington Irving , during his first visit to London , in 1805 , saw Mrs ...
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... playing this part , it is related , that Mrs. Siddons escaped death from fire , through the mar- velous presence of ... play of De Montfort . The poet Campbell pronounces the following passage an almost perfect pic- ture of the great ...
... playing this part , it is related , that Mrs. Siddons escaped death from fire , through the mar- velous presence of ... play of De Montfort . The poet Campbell pronounces the following passage an almost perfect pic- ture of the great ...
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... play , had seen it all so distinctly before her eyes , as if she had been there in the body , that a wild , unreasoning terror had seized her , and she had rushed away to seek human com- panionship . The person of Mrs. Siddons , it is ...
... play , had seen it all so distinctly before her eyes , as if she had been there in the body , that a wild , unreasoning terror had seized her , and she had rushed away to seek human com- panionship . The person of Mrs. Siddons , it is ...
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Strana 271 - JENNY kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in! Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kissed me.
Strana 226 - Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, When it is in the power of thine hand to do it. Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, And to-morrow I will give: When thou hast it by thee.
Strana 358 - A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of good will ; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.
Strana 136 - O Death ! the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best ! Welcome the hour my aged limbs Are laid with thee at rest ! The great, the wealthy, fear thy blow, From pomp and pleasure torn ; But, Oh ! a blest relief to those That weary-laden mourn ! A PRAYER, IN THE PROSPECT OF DEATH.
Strana 115 - For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print, or do it in better verses. It did well enough five years ago when I came to see you, and was moral coxcomb enough at the time you wrote the lines, to feed upon such epithets; but, besides that, the meaning of gentle is equivocal at best, and almost always means poor-spirited, the very quality of gentleness is abhorrent to such vile trumpetings.
Strana 52 - Rasselas has grown somewhat dim. But though the celebrity of the writings may have declined, the celebrity of the writer, strange to say, is as great as ever. Boswell's book has done for him more than the best of his own books could do. The memory of other authors is kept alive by their works. But the memory of Johnson keeps many of his works alive.
Strana 7 - COLERIDGE sat on the brow of Highgate Hill, in those years, looking down on London and its smoke-tumult, like a sage escaped from the inanity of life's battle ; attracting towards him the thoughts of innumerable brave souls still engaged there.
Strana 141 - Cold on Canadian hills, or Minden's plain, Perhaps that parent wept her soldier slain — Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops, mingling with the milk he drew, Gave the sad presage of his future years, The child of misery baptized in tears.
Strana 145 - O Mary, canst thou wreck his peace, Wha for thy sake wad gladly die ? Or canst thou break that heart of his, Whase only faut is loving thee ? If love for love thou wilt na gie, At least be pity to me shown ! A thought ungentle canna be The thought o
Strana 7 - A sublime man; who, alone in those dark days, had saved his crown of spiritual manhood; escaping from the black materialisms, and revolutionary deluges, with "God, Freedom, Immortality