Memoirs of Mrs. Inchbald: Including Her Familiar Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Persons of Her Time. To which are Added The Massacre, and A Case of Conscience; Now First Published from Her Autograph Copies, 1. kötetR. Bentley, 1833 |
Részletek a könyvből
1 - 5 találat összesen 42 találatból.
xiii. oldal
... frequently and truly said , that the humblest life contains in it matter of instruction , if the record were simply and fairly given . But the hopes of such narratives are commonly disap- pointed ; because the autobiographer is too vain ...
... frequently and truly said , that the humblest life contains in it matter of instruction , if the record were simply and fairly given . But the hopes of such narratives are commonly disap- pointed ; because the autobiographer is too vain ...
8. oldal
... frequent calls and regular visits were inter- changed between them . The family were in weekly correspondence with the sisters settled in London ; and these claims and the more rigid demands of the farm , secured them from the danger of ...
... frequent calls and regular visits were inter- changed between them . The family were in weekly correspondence with the sisters settled in London ; and these claims and the more rigid demands of the farm , secured them from the danger of ...
13. oldal
... frequently mentions Master Inchbald and George Inchbald's return to town . Her On the 19th of May she went with Miss West to the Found- ling , and on the 21st was at High Mass . It is very obvious , that the connexion with Mr. Inchbald ...
... frequently mentions Master Inchbald and George Inchbald's return to town . Her On the 19th of May she went with Miss West to the Found- ling , and on the 21st was at High Mass . It is very obvious , that the connexion with Mr. Inchbald ...
32. oldal
... frequently went to the rehearsals in the morning , and twice or thrice in the week enjoyed the play from the body of the house . To a week of the honey - moon she thought herself fully entitled , and therefore did . not mix business ...
... frequently went to the rehearsals in the morning , and twice or thrice in the week enjoyed the play from the body of the house . To a week of the honey - moon she thought herself fully entitled , and therefore did . not mix business ...
41. oldal
... frequent disputes between her husband and herself . She had seen something of the world , but not advanced her fortune , or her happiness very considerably : her beauty had no doubt been felt and acknowledged ; but it was appropriated ...
... frequent disputes between her husband and herself . She had seen something of the world , but not advanced her fortune , or her happiness very considerably : her beauty had no doubt been felt and acknowledged ; but it was appropriated ...
Más kiadások - Összes megtekintése
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
acquaintance acted actor actress admiration amusement appears arrived attended beautiful brother called Catholic character Colman comedy compliments connexions Covent-Garden DEAR MADAM dear Muse Digges dined doubt Edinburgh engagement Eusèbe farce father George Simpson Gisborne give Glan GURET happy Hardinge Harris Holcroft honour hope husband Inchbald Jane Shore Kemble Kemble family lady Leicester Square letter lived lodgings London Lord manager mind Miss month morning mother never night Norwich occasion pantomime passed performed person piece play pleasure pounds present racter reader received rehearsal returned Richard Griffith salary School for Scandal seems sent Siddons Simple Story Simpson Sir Charles Bunbury sister Dolly sister Hunt stage Standingfield Street Sunday suppose Tate Wilkinson theatre theatrical thing thought tion took town tragedy TRICASTIN Twiss usual virtue walked week Whitfield wife wish write wrote
Népszerű szakaszok
155. oldal - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
208. oldal - You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both! If it be you that stir these daughters...
208. oldal - Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button. Thank you, sir. Do you see this? Look on her, look, her lips, Look there, look there!
144. oldal - Sir Giles Overreach, how is it with Your honourable daughter ? Has her honour Slept well to-night? or, will her honour please To accept this monkey, dog, or paraquit,5 (This is state in ladies), or my eldest son To be her page, and wait upon her trencher...
145. oldal - We worldly men, when we see friends and kinsmen Past hope sunk in their fortunes, lend no hand To lift them up, but rather set our feet Upon their heads, to press them to the bottom.
276. oldal - Guided by a wish, that the reflecting reader may experience the sensation, which an attention to circumstances like these, must excite ; he is desired to imagine seventeen years elapsed, since he has seen or heard of any of those persons who, in the foregoing part of this narrative have been introduced to his acquaintance ; — and then, supposing himself at the period of those seventeen years, follow the sequel of their history.
340. oldal - What mortal eye can fix'd behold? Who stalks his round, an hideous form, Howling amidst the midnight storm ; Or throws him on the ridgy steep Of some loose hanging rock to sleep...
41. oldal - A course of small, quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as to be misunderstood, with now and then a look of kindness, and little or nothing said upon it, leaves Nature for your mistress, and she fashions it to her mind.
317. oldal - ... but agrees with the verb, or is governed by the verb or the preposition, expressed or understood ; as, " Thou art wiser than I ;" that is,
282. oldal - Save me!" Her voice unmanned him. His long-restrained tears now burst forth, and, seeing her relapsing into the swoon, he cried out eagerly to recall her. Her name did not, however, come to his recollection — nor any name but this : " Miss Milner — dear Miss Milner...