The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay (Frances Burney): 1787-1792Vizetelly, 1891 |
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316. oldal - Nor is this all. Think but of the surprise of his majesty when, the first time of his bathing, he had no sooner popped his royal head under water than a band of music, concealed in a neighbouring machine, struck up " God save great George our king.
378. oldal - Yes, madam, you must give me some of your choice little notes of the Doctor's; we have seen him long enough upon stilts ; I want to show him in a new light. Grave Sam, and great Sam, and solemn Sam, and learned Sam — all these he has appeared over and over. Now I want to entwine a wreath of the graces across his brow; I want to show him as gay Sam, agreeable Sam, pleasant Sam; so you must help me with some of his beautiful billets to yourself.
377. oldal - My dear ma'am, why do you stay? It won't do, ma'am; you must resign. We can put up with it no longer. Some very violent measures, I assure you, will be taken. We shall address Dr. Burney in a body.
376. oldal - Indeed the Burney family seem to have been apprehensive that some public affront such as the Doctor's unpardonable folly, to use the mildest term, had richly deserved, would be put upon him. The medical men spoke out, and plainly told him that his daughter must resign or die.
380. oldal - I could not," so runs the Diary, "summon courage to present my memorial; my heart always failed me from seeing the Queen's entire freedom from such an expectation. For though I was frequently so ill in her presence that I could hardly stand, I saw she concluded me, while life remained, inevitably hers.
23. oldal - The shout which ensued did not at all interfere with the steadiness of his further detail. "And there's another man, sir, a great stout fellow, sir, as ever you saw — Dr. Gibbon of the Temple : I broke his head too, sir. — I don't know if he remembers it.
228. oldal - Meanwhile, a stillness the most uncommon reigned over the whole house. Nobody stirred ; not a voice was heard ; not a motion. I could do nothing but watch, without knowing for what ; there seemed a strangeness in the house most extraordinary.
99. oldal - My Lords — Impressed — deeply impressed — I come before your Lordships, equally confident in my own integrity, and in the justice of the Court before which I am to clear it." "Impressed" and "deeply impressed," too, was my mind, by this short yet comprehensive speech, and all my best wishes for his clearance and redress rose warmer than ever in my heart.
52. oldal - I fancy approximation is not highly in her favour. 1 found her the heroine of a tragedy, — sublime, elevated, and solemn. In face and person truly noble and commanding ; in manners quiet and stiff; in voice deep and dragging ; and in conversation, formal, sententious, calm, and dry. I expected her to have been all that is interesting ; the delicacy and sweetness with which she seizes every opportunity to strike and to captivate upon the stage had persuaded me that her mind was formed with that...
27. oldal - ... her own credit ! He conquered at last, and thus forced to speak, she turned round to us and said, "Well — if I must, then — I will appeal to these ladies, who understand such things far better than I do, and ask them if it is not true about these French plays, that they are all so like one to another, that to hear them in this manner every night is enough to tire one ?''