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... house , founded the college of New Aberdeen , which is still called by their name , * The subject of this memoir was the fifth son by the above marriage , He was born in the year 1746 ; and received at Glasgow an education suitable to ...
... house , founded the college of New Aberdeen , which is still called by their name , * The subject of this memoir was the fifth son by the above marriage , He was born in the year 1746 ; and received at Glasgow an education suitable to ...
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... House , called upon him , and stated , that he was commissioned to request , on the behalf of a nobleman , Mr. Kemble's assistance in the educa- tion of his son . Mr. Kemble replied , that he was compelled , froni want of leisure , and ...
... House , called upon him , and stated , that he was commissioned to request , on the behalf of a nobleman , Mr. Kemble's assistance in the educa- tion of his son . Mr. Kemble replied , that he was compelled , froni want of leisure , and ...
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... house was secured , and the orchestra was fitted up for the accommodation of those lovers of the drama who longed to see their great actor once more . All the leading members of the profession , and among them M. Talma , were present ...
... house was secured , and the orchestra was fitted up for the accommodation of those lovers of the drama who longed to see their great actor once more . All the leading members of the profession , and among them M. Talma , were present ...
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... Henry Siddons , and a large party , at the house of a gentleman well known and highly es- teemed in all the literary and political coteries of the metro- polis , Mr. Henry Siddons , after the wine had 48 JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE , ESQ .
... Henry Siddons , and a large party , at the house of a gentleman well known and highly es- teemed in all the literary and political coteries of the metro- polis , Mr. Henry Siddons , after the wine had 48 JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE , ESQ .
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... house , and sent his uncle a challenge . The impropriety of this step of course excited only a feeling of regret in Mr. Kemble's breast . He communicated the circumstance to the friend already alluded to , and by his good offices a ...
... house , and sent his uncle a challenge . The impropriety of this step of course excited only a feeling of regret in Mr. Kemble's breast . He communicated the circumstance to the friend already alluded to , and by his good offices a ...
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Side 36 - Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate...
Side 45 - His transport's most impetuous tone, And to each passion of his breast The graces gave their zone. High were the task — too high, Ye conscious bosoms here ! In words to paint your memory Of Kemble and of Lear; But who forgets that white discrowned head, Those bursts of reason's half-extinguish'd glare — Those tears upon Cordelia's bosom shed, In doubt more touching than despair, If 'twas reality he felt?
Side 55 - Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my latter end be like his.
Side 420 - LL.D., Downing Professor of the Laws of England in the University of Cambridge.
Side 198 - Vaccinae, A Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Counties of England. Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox...
Side 35 - I have liv'd long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf: 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, but dare not.
Side 45 - For ill can Poetry express Full many a tone of thought sublime, And Painting, mute and motionless, Steals but a glance of time. But by the mighty actor brought, Illusion's perfect triumphs come, — Verse ceases to be airy thought, And Sculpture to be dumb.
Side 93 - His figure was striking, but not so from grace ; it was tall, and, though extremely thin, his limbs were large and uncouth, and as he stalked along, wrapt in the black garments of his order, there was something terrible in its air ; something almost superhuman.
Side 471 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Side 117 - Our tender plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.