Fanny Burney and Her Friends: Select Passages from Her Diary and Other WritingsSeeley, 1895 - 331 Seiten |
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Seite 236 - A melancholy day," she writes ; " news bad both at home and abroad. At home the dear, unhappy king still worse; abroad new examinations voted of the physicians. Good heavens ! what an insult does this seem from Parliamentary power, to investigate and bring forth to the world every circumstance of such a malady as is ever held sacred to secrecy in the most private families ! How indignant we all feel here no words can say.
Seite 164 - The little princess, just turned of three years old, in a robe-coat covered with fine muslin, a dressed close cap, white gloves, and fan, walked on alone and first, highly delighted with the parade, and turning from side to side to see everybody as she passed ; for all the terracers stand up against the walls, to make a clear passage for the royal family the moment they come in sight. Then followed the king and queen, no less delighted...
Seite 148 - such stuff as great part of Shakespeare? only one must not say so ! But what think you? — What? — Is there not sad stuff? What? — what?
Seite 98 - If,' says Macaulay very fairly, ' she recorded with minute diligence all the compliments, delicate and coarse, which she heard wherever she turned, she recorded them for the eyes of two or three persons who had loved her from infancy, who had loved her in obscurity, and to whom her fame gave the purest and most exquisite delight.
Seite 269 - A scene almost horrible ensued,' says Miss Burney. ' She was too much enraged for disguise, and uttered the most furious expressions of indignant contempt at our proceedings. I am sure she would gladly have confined us both in the Bastille, had England such a misery, as a fit place to bring us to ourselves, from a daring so outrageous against imperial wishes.
Seite 164 - ... the parade, and turning from side to side to see everybody as she passed ; for all the terracers stand up against the walls, to make a clear passage for the royal family the moment they come in sight. Then followed the King and Queen, no less delighted with the joy of their little darling.
Seite 95 - Mr. Sheridan has a very fine figure, and a good though I don't think a handsome face. He is' tall, and very upright, and his appearance and address are at once manly and fashionable, without the smallest tincture of foppery or modish graces. In short, I like him vastly, and think him every way worthy his beautiful companion.
Seite 148 - Yes, indeed, I think so, sir, though mixed with such excellences, that — " " O !" cried he, laughing good-humouredly, " I know it is not to be said ! but it's true. Only it's Shakespeare, and nobody dare abuse him." Then he enumerated many of the characters and parts of plays that he objected to; and when he had run them over, finished with again laughing, and exclaiming, " But one should be stoned for saying so !"
Seite 305 - Oh! it is only a novel!" replies the young lady; while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. - "It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda;" or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.
Seite 142 - I had now retreated to the wall, and purposed gliding softly, though speedily, out of the room ; but before I had taken a single step, the king, in a loud whisper to Mrs. Delany, said, " Is that Miss Burney?" — and on her answering, "Yes, sir," he bowed, and with a countenance of the most perfect good humour, came close up to me. A most profound reverence on my part arrested the progress of my intended retreat. " How long have you been come back, Miss Burney ? "