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... soon qualified her to take the first parts in seri- ous opera . Her vocal powers , however , were not the only quali- ties which recommended her to public favour . Beauty and youth when accompanied by elegance and grace of deportment ...
... soon qualified her to take the first parts in seri- ous opera . Her vocal powers , however , were not the only quali- ties which recommended her to public favour . Beauty and youth when accompanied by elegance and grace of deportment ...
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... soon deprived of their dearest hopes by the information that another country contains their ORIGIN AND DESIGN OF CARDS , ABOUT the year 1300 , cards were invented to divert Charles the VI . then king of France , who was fallen into a ...
... soon deprived of their dearest hopes by the information that another country contains their ORIGIN AND DESIGN OF CARDS , ABOUT the year 1300 , cards were invented to divert Charles the VI . then king of France , who was fallen into a ...
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... soon my opinion of " Matrimony " --- it a Tell - tale , " I may present an would be " Love's Labour Lost , " an additional inducement . indeed if I disliked it in the " Honey Moon . " -- If you continue such a prude , as to retain your ...
... soon my opinion of " Matrimony " --- it a Tell - tale , " I may present an would be " Love's Labour Lost , " an additional inducement . indeed if I disliked it in the " Honey Moon . " -- If you continue such a prude , as to retain your ...
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... soon be done , Would we divide the toil , and each mend one . CC The Advantage of having a Vote . - An honest John Bull tra- velling through Germany , on ar- riving at the gate of a city , was requested to describe himself ; not knowing ...
... soon be done , Would we divide the toil , and each mend one . CC The Advantage of having a Vote . - An honest John Bull tra- velling through Germany , on ar- riving at the gate of a city , was requested to describe himself ; not knowing ...
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... soon relinquished , and garden ; the surrounding scenery retired to Shefford , where he pre- is well adapted to an admirer of duced his " May Day with the rural life . Bloomfield's residence Muses , " " Hazlewood Hall , " and here was ...
... soon relinquished , and garden ; the surrounding scenery retired to Shefford , where he pre- is well adapted to an admirer of duced his " May Day with the rural life . Bloomfield's residence Muses , " " Hazlewood Hall , " and here was ...
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Página 36 - ... loved the man, and do honour his memory on this side idolatry as much as any. He was, indeed; honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped.
Página 21 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sat on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations — all were his ! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set, where were they ? And where are they ? and where art thou, My country?
Página 36 - The latter part of his life was spent, as all men of good sense will wish theirs may be, in ease, retirement, and the conversation of his friends. He had the good fortune to gather an estate equal to his occasion, and, in that, to his wish ; and is said to have spent some years before his death at his native Stratford. His pleasurable wit and good nature engaged him in the acquaintance, and entitled him to the friendship, of the gentlemen of the neighbourhood.
Página 34 - Warwickshire for some time and shelter himself in London. It is at this time, and upon this accident, that he is said to have made his first acquaintance in the playhouse. He was received into the company then in being, at first in a very mean rank...
Página 35 - D'Avenant, who was probably very well acquainted with his affairs, I should not have ventured to have inserted, that my lord Southampton at one time gave him a thousand pounds, to enable him to go through with a purchase which he heard he had a mind to...
Página 21 - The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Página 22 - Trust not for freedom to the Franks They have a king who buys and sells; In native swords, and native ranks, The only hope of courage dwells: But Turkish force, and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad.
Página 34 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and, amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlcote, near Stratford.
Página 35 - He had the honour to meet with many great and uncommon marks of favour and friendship from the earl of Southampton, famous in the histories of that time for his friendship to the unfortunate earl of Essex.
Página 34 - Upon his leaving school, he seems to have given entirely into that way of living which his father proposed to him ; and in order to settle in the world after a family manner, he thought fit to marry while he was yet very young. His wife was the daughter of one Hathaway, said to have been a substantial yeoman in the neighbourhood of Stratford.