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... stage , aided by the acting of Garrick and the other principal performers of the time . Its suc- cess was not considerable , and it retains no b2 place among the stock plays , though it is by BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . iii.
... stage , aided by the acting of Garrick and the other principal performers of the time . Its suc- cess was not considerable , and it retains no b2 place among the stock plays , though it is by BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . iii.
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James Ferguson. place among the stock plays , though it is by no means devoid of entertainment . In 1740 he ventured to marry a beautiful and accomplished young lady , daughter to Mr. Hamilton , table - decker to the princesses . Their ...
James Ferguson. place among the stock plays , though it is by no means devoid of entertainment . In 1740 he ventured to marry a beautiful and accomplished young lady , daughter to Mr. Hamilton , table - decker to the princesses . Their ...
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... play than at evening prayers ; that I usually went from the play to the tavern again ; and that in five years time I spent every shilling of my fortune . They may also add , if they please , as the climax of my follies , that when I was ...
... play than at evening prayers ; that I usually went from the play to the tavern again ; and that in five years time I spent every shilling of my fortune . They may also add , if they please , as the climax of my follies , that when I was ...
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... play , taking a great gulp , and swallowing a wrong word or two , left the room without speaking a syllable . I have now laid aside my tragedy , and am writing a comedy , called , The FRIEND . I do not know that I have wit enough for ...
... play , taking a great gulp , and swallowing a wrong word or two , left the room without speaking a syllable . I have now laid aside my tragedy , and am writing a comedy , called , The FRIEND . I do not know that I have wit enough for ...
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... plays written in a dead language , and which we can only read ; or such as we every day see acted inimitably , in a tongue familiar to us , and adapted to our common ideas and customs . The only preference that I shall pretend to give ...
... plays written in a dead language , and which we can only read ; or such as we every day see acted inimitably , in a tongue familiar to us , and adapted to our common ideas and customs . The only preference that I shall pretend to give ...
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Страница 128 - Mark, how the dread Pantheon stands, Amid the domes of modern hands : Amid the toys of idle state, How simply, how severely great ! Then turn, and, while each western clime Presents her tuneful sons to Time, So mark thou Milton's name ; And add, " Thus differs from the throng The spirit which inform'd thy awful song, Which bade thy potent voice protect thy country's fame.
Страница 301 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Страница 296 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and everduring dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Страница 63 - I have been bullied by an usurper, I have been neglected by a court, but I will not be dictated to by a subject ; your man shan't stand. " ANNE, DORSET, PEMBRoKE,
Страница 224 - True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Страница 315 - That if we inquire into the cause of all human corruptions, we shall find that they proceed from the impunity of crimes, and not from the moderation of punishments.
Страница 337 - Because he had but one to subdue, As was a paltry narrow tub to Diogenes ; who is not said (For aught that ever I could read) To whine, put finger i' th' eye, and sob, Because h
Страница 254 - ... them; and thus, often misled by sounds, and not always secured by sense, they are hurried into fatal errors, which they do not give their understandings fair play enough to prevent. In explaining words, therefore, and bringing them back to their true signification, one may sometimes happen to expose and explode those errors, which the abuse of them both occasions and protects.
Страница 40 - I venture to prognosticate will not attend the erroneous calculation of the present system. The day I mean is the first of April. The oldest tradition affirms that such an infatuation attends the first day of that month, as no foresight can escape, no vigilance can defeat. Deceit is successful on that day out of the mouths of babes and sucklings. Grave citizens have been bit upon it; usurers have lent their money on bad security; experienced matrons have married very disappointing young fellows;...