The Palmy Days of Nance OldfieldH. S. Stone & Company, 1898 - 277 sider This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. |
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... grace 1683 , when the wife of Captain Oldfield , gentleman by birth and Royal Guardsman by profession , brought into the busy , unfeeling world of London a pretty mite of a girl . ' Twas a year of grace indeed , for the little stranger ...
... grace 1683 , when the wife of Captain Oldfield , gentleman by birth and Royal Guardsman by profession , brought into the busy , unfeeling world of London a pretty mite of a girl . ' Twas a year of grace indeed , for the little stranger ...
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... grace into lines which nowadays seem a bit academic and musty . The captain has not forgotten her , however ; on the contrary , he is so charmed with what he hears that he makes some flimsy excuse to get into that room behind the bar ...
... grace into lines which nowadays seem a bit academic and musty . The captain has not forgotten her , however ; on the contrary , he is so charmed with what he hears that he makes some flimsy excuse to get into that room behind the bar ...
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... grace that made his faded clothes seem the pink of fashion , poured forth a torrent of flowery compliments , which became all the stronger when he heard that the girl knew Beaumont and Fletcher nearly by heart . She must have blushed ...
... grace that made his faded clothes seem the pink of fashion , poured forth a torrent of flowery compliments , which became all the stronger when he heard that the girl knew Beaumont and Fletcher nearly by heart . She must have blushed ...
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... which was altogether unnatural to them ; they gave themselves heavily up to levity ; they everywhere confounded the coarsest licentiousness with free mental vivacity , and did not perceive that the sort of grace which 26 NANCE OLDFIELD.
... which was altogether unnatural to them ; they gave themselves heavily up to levity ; they everywhere confounded the coarsest licentiousness with free mental vivacity , and did not perceive that the sort of grace which 26 NANCE OLDFIELD.
Side 27
Edward Robins. and did not perceive that the sort of grace which is still compatible with depravity , disappears with the last veil which it throws off . " As Schlegel goes on to say , we can easily imagine into what direction the tastes ...
Edward Robins. and did not perceive that the sort of grace which is still compatible with depravity , disappears with the last veil which it throws off . " As Schlegel goes on to say , we can easily imagine into what direction the tastes ...
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Side 108 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Side 95 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Side 98 - There is no place of general resort wherein I do not often make my appearance; sometimes I am seen thrusting my head into a round of politicians at Will's, and listening with great attention to the narratives that are made in those little circular audiences. Sometimes I smoke a pipe at Child's; and, while I seem attentive to nothing but the Post-man, overhear the conversation of every table in the room.
Side 109 - The numerous and violent claps of the whig party on the one side of the theatre, were echoed back by the tories on the other ; while the author sweated behind the scenes with concern to find their applause proceeding more from the hand than the head.
Side 99 - I do not know that I meet, in any of my walks, objects which move both my spleen and laughter so effectually, as those young fellows at the Grecian, Squire's, Searle's, and all other coffee-houses adjacent to the law, who rise early for no other purpose but to publish their laziness.
Side 128 - The ordinary method of making a hero, is to clap a huge plume of feathers upon his head, which rises so very high, that there is often a greater length from his chin to the top of his head, than to the sole of his foot.
Side 108 - Cato was not so. much the wonder of Rome in his days, as. he is of Britain in ours ; and though all the foolish industry possible has been used to.
Side 252 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Side 142 - Our modern celebrated clubs are founded upon eating and drinking, which are points wherein most men agree, and in which the learned and illiterate, the dull and the airy, the philosopher and the buffoon, can all of them bear a part.
Side 37 - ... hearing what fell from the weakest utterance ; all objects were thus drawn nearer to the sense ; every painted scene was stronger, every grand scene and dance more extended ; every rich or fine-coloured habit had a more lively lustre : nor was the minutest motion of a feature (properly changing with the passion or humour it suited) ever lost, as they frequently must be in the obscurity of too great a distance...
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Drama Bibliography: A Short-title Guide to Extended Reading in Dramatic Art ... Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 1971 |