Letters on Miscellaneous and Domestic Subjects: Intended for the Use of the Writer's Family, and a Few Select FriendsJ. Moyes, Greville street., 1823 - 384 sider |
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Side 37
... seen Mr. Richard Oakley and yourself ; but perhaps " ' tis better as it is . " I am incapable of giving advice to those more competent than myself , and must beg to leave to their better judgments the adjustment of this sad account . I ...
... seen Mr. Richard Oakley and yourself ; but perhaps " ' tis better as it is . " I am incapable of giving advice to those more competent than myself , and must beg to leave to their better judgments the adjustment of this sad account . I ...
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... seen some mention of it in the public prints ! ' " All difficulties are but easy when they are known ; " and now they shall be solved . The dukedom is no less than the sovereignty of Austria ; and if you will look into Shakespeare's ...
... seen some mention of it in the public prints ! ' " All difficulties are but easy when they are known ; " and now they shall be solved . The dukedom is no less than the sovereignty of Austria ; and if you will look into Shakespeare's ...
Side 64
... seen nor heard ! -followed , as she must be , by the sympathetic feelings and regard of those whose proud boast is , that they have , known so excellent a .woman . In the hope that goodness . like hers will be rewarded , and with ...
... seen nor heard ! -followed , as she must be , by the sympathetic feelings and regard of those whose proud boast is , that they have , known so excellent a .woman . In the hope that goodness . like hers will be rewarded , and with ...
Side 82
... seen an actor before . He has all the requisites necessary to form one he does not spout , as I have seen men do " and heard others praise ; " - but he gives the language of the poet as it were his own ; not as it were by rote , but ...
... seen an actor before . He has all the requisites necessary to form one he does not spout , as I have seen men do " and heard others praise ; " - but he gives the language of the poet as it were his own ; not as it were by rote , but ...
Side 83
... seen an actor before . " The conception of an actor is , that he shall assume the character once for all , and be it throughout : this , in my opinion , Mr. Kean has accomplished ; and therefore I say , " take him for all in all , " it ...
... seen an actor before . " The conception of an actor is , that he shall assume the character once for all , and be it throughout : this , in my opinion , Mr. Kean has accomplished ; and therefore I say , " take him for all in all , " it ...
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acquainted affectionate Father affliction afford agreeable amiable assure attention B. O. To CAPTAIN B. O. To MASTER B. O. To MISS believe BENJAMIN OAKLEY BLACKHEATH BRITTON brother Captain Butcher CHARTER HOUSE CHRISTIANA Clapham Common comfort consolation DEAR ADRIANA DEAR BENJAMIN dear boy DEAR MADAM DEAR SIR December December 15 December 28 December 9 delight dine distress Drury Drury Lane Theatre duty EDWARD YOUNGE esteem express Farran favour feel friendship girls give glad to find happiness Harrogate heart honour hope Horsley indulgence JOHN BUTCHER Kean kind letter loving Father mamma March 22 melancholy mind MISS OAKLEY morning mother night November November 22 o'clock occasion offer Parrott pleasure poor pray proud R. R. OAKLEY Ravenhill received recollection regret request RICHARD OAKLEY Royal Exchange satisfaction sincerely sisters Tavistock Place tell thank theatre thing Tooting Lodge town WEOBLY wish
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Side 366 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder...
Side 337 - From his cradle, He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
Side 380 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Side 362 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Side 288 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Side 244 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Side 308 - If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
Side 281 - The poor beetle, which we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Side 333 - O God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea! and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors!
Side 259 - Farewell, great painter of mankind, Who reach'd the noblest point of art; Whose pictur'd morals charm the mind, And through the eye correct the heart ! If genius fire thee, reader, stay ; If nature touch thee, drop a tear : — If neither move thee, turn away, For Hogarth's honour'd dust lies here.