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... lady's readings and representations of many of the characters of Shakspeare in her youth were so admirable , that they displayed powers of the highest class ; and frequently were exercised for the delight of a numerous circle of ...
... lady's readings and representations of many of the characters of Shakspeare in her youth were so admirable , that they displayed powers of the highest class ; and frequently were exercised for the delight of a numerous circle of ...
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... lady was afterwards married ; and whose early and melancholy death called forth so much public , as well as pri- vate , sympathy at the time of its occurrence . We have noticed these early pursuits of our authoress , because we think ...
... lady was afterwards married ; and whose early and melancholy death called forth so much public , as well as pri- vate , sympathy at the time of its occurrence . We have noticed these early pursuits of our authoress , because we think ...
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... lady ; and it was not till some time after , that she once more resumed the pen , and commenced those works which have obtained for her not only in England , but in foreign countries , her celebrity of a novelist . " Great , as it is ...
... lady ; and it was not till some time after , that she once more resumed the pen , and commenced those works which have obtained for her not only in England , but in foreign countries , her celebrity of a novelist . " Great , as it is ...
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... Lady Jane of Boulogne ; and the death of Sir Peter Arnault de Beam . All the rest is the result of the authoress's imagination , never perhaps more brilliantly dis- played than in some of the scenes of De Foix ; ' among these , we would ...
... Lady Jane of Boulogne ; and the death of Sir Peter Arnault de Beam . All the rest is the result of the authoress's imagination , never perhaps more brilliantly dis- played than in some of the scenes of De Foix ; ' among these , we would ...
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... Lady Matilda , the injured widow of De Beam , appears before us . There is a grandeur about this character which we have seen com- pared to Mrs. Siddons , who , it has been conjectured , Mrs. Bray had in her remembrance when she drew ...
... Lady Matilda , the injured widow of De Beam , appears before us . There is a grandeur about this character which we have seen com- pared to Mrs. Siddons , who , it has been conjectured , Mrs. Bray had in her remembrance when she drew ...
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