The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ..., Bind 8Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1824 |
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... gave proofs of a great taste for literature . On that account he was , in the year 1770 , sent by his father to the University of Douay , in order to qualify him for one of the learned professions . During his residence there , he ...
... gave proofs of a great taste for literature . On that account he was , in the year 1770 , sent by his father to the University of Douay , in order to qualify him for one of the learned professions . During his residence there , he ...
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... gave a decided promise of those talents which 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 ...
... gave a decided promise of those talents which 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 ...
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... gave way to the crop , the toga , and the couch . ings , his processions , & c . while they were in the highest degree conducive to theatrical effect , were yet so chaste and free from glare , that they appeared rather historical than ...
... gave way to the crop , the toga , and the couch . ings , his processions , & c . while they were in the highest degree conducive to theatrical effect , were yet so chaste and free from glare , that they appeared rather historical than ...
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... gave five - and - twenty thousand pounds , he became the manager , in the room of Mr. Lewis , who resigned ; and appeared for the first time on those boards , in the character of Hamlet , on the 24th of September . It is unnecessary to ...
... gave five - and - twenty thousand pounds , he became the manager , in the room of Mr. Lewis , who resigned ; and appeared for the first time on those boards , in the character of Hamlet , on the 24th of September . It is unnecessary to ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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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.