New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 6Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth E. W. Allen, 1822 |
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... Miss BAILLIE'S De Monfort , after a long interval , has been again pro- duced on the stage of this theatre . In her preface to her series of plays on the Passions , the richly - gifted and ex- cellent author expresses her wish that she ...
... Miss BAILLIE'S De Monfort , after a long interval , has been again pro- duced on the stage of this theatre . In her preface to her series of plays on the Passions , the richly - gifted and ex- cellent author expresses her wish that she ...
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... Miss Baillie the silent grief beyond the power of words - the generous consolations of the noble sister - the shrinkings of the poor criminal , and his relapsings into a gentler penitence and his last attempt to seem cheerful as he ...
... Miss Baillie the silent grief beyond the power of words - the generous consolations of the noble sister - the shrinkings of the poor criminal , and his relapsings into a gentler penitence and his last attempt to seem cheerful as he ...
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... Miss before her name . The full developement of all the sternest passions of the soul the appearance of a queen and even of a mother , are absolutely essential to the representation of the mighty murderess . Miss Edmiston declaimed with ...
... Miss before her name . The full developement of all the sternest passions of the soul the appearance of a queen and even of a mother , are absolutely essential to the representation of the mighty murderess . Miss Edmiston declaimed with ...
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... Miss Hallande and Miss Tree . The last speaks the most delicate part of what is left of Shakspeare's poetry with her wonted crispness ; but she ought to learn to sustain her voice to the end of the period , and to study a better ...
... Miss Hallande and Miss Tree . The last speaks the most delicate part of what is left of Shakspeare's poetry with her wonted crispness ; but she ought to learn to sustain her voice to the end of the period , and to study a better ...
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... Miss E. Turney . Died . ] C. Mr. Humberstone , ofStanford , near Biggleswade - At Leighton Buzzard , Mr. W. Westbrook . BERKSHIRE . Birth . ] At Reading , Mrs. Hornbuckle , of a daughter . Married . ] At Lackhamstead , Mr. Goddard , to Miss ...
... Miss E. Turney . Died . ] C. Mr. Humberstone , ofStanford , near Biggleswade - At Leighton Buzzard , Mr. W. Westbrook . BERKSHIRE . Birth . ] At Reading , Mrs. Hornbuckle , of a daughter . Married . ] At Lackhamstead , Mr. Goddard , to Miss ...
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Page 292 - Of human dealings. If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune.
Page 430 - That he should weep for her/ What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have/ He would drown the stage with tears And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears.
Page 341 - Have you not love enough to bear with me, When that rash humour, which my mother gave me, Makes me forgetful ? Bru^. Yes, Cassius ; and, from henceforth, When you are over-earnest with your Brutus, He'll think your mother chides, and leave you so.
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Page 163 - Sir ; attacks upon me were to be expected; but I perceive one upon you in the papers, which I confess that I did not expect. How, or in what manner, you can be considered responsible for what I publish, I am at a loss to conceive. If ' Cain' be ' blasphemous,' Paradise Lost is blasphemous ; and the words of the Oxford gentleman,
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