Mrs. Jordan, Band 2Grolier Society, 1800 |
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... dear to the goddess as their propagation ; nay , the second cannot exist without the first . The make of the animal ascertains his food . The humanity of life is frequently absurd and affected . If this meant anything in Westminster ...
... dear to the goddess as their propagation ; nay , the second cannot exist without the first . The make of the animal ascertains his food . The humanity of life is frequently absurd and affected . If this meant anything in Westminster ...
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... dear to them , and to retain his respect , as well as his affection . Everything seemed to be work- ing in their favour , when this miserable event was likely to revive a distaste for their theatre that had been sweetened away by the ...
... dear to them , and to retain his respect , as well as his affection . Everything seemed to be work- ing in their favour , when this miserable event was likely to revive a distaste for their theatre that had been sweetened away by the ...
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... dear George , " and one nosegay seemed to per- fume them both . There is a time when men , who are modest in general , become the heroes of their own tale , and this at length happened to King John ; " for wine , " says Johnson ...
... dear George , " and one nosegay seemed to per- fume them both . There is a time when men , who are modest in general , become the heroes of their own tale , and this at length happened to King John ; " for wine , " says Johnson ...
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... dear friends to a grand entertainment given by Mr. Perry , the proprietor of the party journal . Let me say that his con- duct of it was throughout a full contrast to the ruffian scurrility of some other journalists . There was a ...
... dear friends to a grand entertainment given by Mr. Perry , the proprietor of the party journal . Let me say that his con- duct of it was throughout a full contrast to the ruffian scurrility of some other journalists . There was a ...
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... dear friend's funeral . His attention to either the dead or the living was through his existence always too late . He arrived at the grave just in time to see the clergyman turning away . The name of Sheridan , however , softened the ...
... dear friend's funeral . His attention to either the dead or the living was through his existence always too late . He arrived at the grave just in time to see the clergyman turning away . The name of Sheridan , however , softened the ...
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Seite 258 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder...
Seite 100 - What is a man, If his chief good, and market of his time, Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before, and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused.
Seite 71 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.
Seite 160 - Twas a child that so did thrive In grace and feature, As Heaven and Nature seem'd to strive Which own'd the creature. Years he number'd scarce thirteen When Fates turn'd cruel, Yet three fill'd zodiacs had he been The stage's jewel...
Seite 145 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Seite 160 - Weep with me, all you that read This little story : And know, for whom a tear you shed Death's self is sorry. 'Twas a child that so did thrive In grace and feature, As heaven and nature seemed to strive Which owned the creature.
Seite 100 - Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do;' Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.
Seite 251 - My forbearance, he says, is beyond what he could have imagined ! But what will not a woman do who is firmly and sincerely attached ? Had he left me to starve, I never would have uttered a word to his disadvantage. I enclose you two other letters ; and in a day or two you shall see more, the rest being in the hands of the R 1. And now, my dear friend, do not hear the D. of C. unfairly abused.
Seite 20 - ... perfectly free. It is assumed, I know, to give dignity and variety to the style ; but whatever success the attempt may sometimes have, it is always obtained at the expense of purity and of the graces that are natural and appropriate to our language. It is true that when the exigence calls for auxiliaries of all sorts, and common language becomes unequal to the demands of extraordinary thoughts, something ought to be conceded to the necessities which make " ambition virtue ;" but the allowances...
Seite 25 - Oh, holy Nature ! thou dost never plead in vain. There is not, of our earth, a creature bearing form, and life, human or savage — native of the forest wild, or giddy air-— around whose parent bosom, thou...