An Apology for the Life of George Anne Bellamy: Late of Covent-Garden Theatre. Written by Herself. To which is Annexed, Her Original Letter to John Calcraft, ... The Third Edition. In Five Volumes. ...author, and sold, 1785 |
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... attend a profecution , ought to be chearfully fubmitted to ; and though fervices rendered our country of this kind , are not attended with fo much eclat as thofe where life is expofed in her defence ; yet they are a duty incumbent on ...
... attend a profecution , ought to be chearfully fubmitted to ; and though fervices rendered our country of this kind , are not attended with fo much eclat as thofe where life is expofed in her defence ; yet they are a duty incumbent on ...
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... attend the depreffive turn of Fortune's wheel . It ever was , and ever will be fo.- How juft and exemplary is the proof my beloved and often - quoted author gives us of this human depravity , in his " Timon of " Athens * . " - " As we ...
... attend the depreffive turn of Fortune's wheel . It ever was , and ever will be fo.- How juft and exemplary is the proof my beloved and often - quoted author gives us of this human depravity , in his " Timon of " Athens * . " - " As we ...
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... attend to a pro- pofal he had to make me , which would ac- commodate the difagreeable affair relative to the diamonds . This alfo I refused to do , affuring him , at the fame time , that I would not hold any correfpondence with him what ...
... attend to a pro- pofal he had to make me , which would ac- commodate the difagreeable affair relative to the diamonds . This alfo I refused to do , affuring him , at the fame time , that I would not hold any correfpondence with him what ...
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... attended me down , and he was to refide at his own lodg- ings . Our journey had been expenfive . I had but little money left , and Mr. Digges lefs ; for the bills I had upon Holland , were of no use to me here . In this fituation ...
... attended me down , and he was to refide at his own lodg- ings . Our journey had been expenfive . I had but little money left , and Mr. Digges lefs ; for the bills I had upon Holland , were of no use to me here . In this fituation ...
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... attending the coppers , and others lay . ing the linen to bleach . On the other fide the cattle are grazing in a moft delightful pafture , which terminates in a landscape much beyond any defcription it is in my power to give of it . We ...
... attending the coppers , and others lay . ing the linen to bleach . On the other fide the cattle are grazing in a moft delightful pafture , which terminates in a landscape much beyond any defcription it is in my power to give of it . We ...
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An Apology for the Life of George Anne Bellamy: Late of Covent-Garden ... George Anne Bellamy Visualização completa - 1785 |
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Página 148 - ... advertifement, Mr. Calcraft had been at his houfe, vowing vengeance againft the theatre, if I did not promife to give up all 'thoughts of fuch a publication ; which, he faid, was at once putting a dagger into his heart, and a piftol to his head.