The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ..., Bind 8Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1824 |
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... afterwards into the Perseus frigate , and served in her on the coast of America , under Lord Howe and Admiral Arbuthnot . At this time he was returned as knight of the shire for the county of Dumbarton , in which his family possessed ...
... afterwards into the Perseus frigate , and served in her on the coast of America , under Lord Howe and Admiral Arbuthnot . At this time he was returned as knight of the shire for the county of Dumbarton , in which his family possessed ...
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... afterwards raised him to unrivalled eminence . Mr. Kemble next acted at Worcester ; and afterwards with Mr. Younger , at the Theatres Royal in Manchester and Liverpool . From that time he rapidly improved in his pro- fession . At length ...
... afterwards raised him to unrivalled eminence . Mr. Kemble next acted at Worcester ; and afterwards with Mr. Younger , at the Theatres Royal in Manchester and Liverpool . From that time he rapidly improved in his pro- fession . At length ...
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... afterwards ripened into the closest intimacy . The fol- lowing extract from a Parisian journal of that day will shew the general interest he excited : " Mr. Kemble , the celebrated actor of London , whose arrival at Paris has been ...
... afterwards ripened into the closest intimacy . The fol- lowing extract from a Parisian journal of that day will shew the general interest he excited : " Mr. Kemble , the celebrated actor of London , whose arrival at Paris has been ...
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... afterwards , though he seemed perfectly sensible at intervals . Until nine o'clock on Wednesday morning , the 26th of February , 1823 , he lingered in this speechless state , when he expired without any apparent suf- fering . Thus died ...
... afterwards , though he seemed perfectly sensible at intervals . Until nine o'clock on Wednesday morning , the 26th of February , 1823 , he lingered in this speechless state , when he expired without any apparent suf- fering . Thus died ...
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... afterwards pub- lished separately , under the title of " The Mathematical Mis- cellany , " in a single volume : the poetical and mathematical parts of the Ladies ' Diaries , down to the year 1773 , con- stitute five additional volumes ...
... afterwards pub- lished separately , under the title of " The Mathematical Mis- cellany , " in a single volume : the poetical and mathematical parts of the Ladies ' Diaries , down to the year 1773 , con- stitute five additional volumes ...
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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.