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... lady was to be tricked out of her money , and the father compelled to surrender his consent . Instead of being regulated by certain and almost invariable formalities , court- ships came to be practised in a thousand various ways ; and ...
... lady was to be tricked out of her money , and the father compelled to surrender his consent . Instead of being regulated by certain and almost invariable formalities , court- ships came to be practised in a thousand various ways ; and ...
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... lady of Barbadoes , by whom he acquired a valuable plantation . She died a few months after their marriage ; but of her name , cha- racter , or the time of her death , we have no account . His second wife was Mary , the daughter of ...
... lady of Barbadoes , by whom he acquired a valuable plantation . She died a few months after their marriage ; but of her name , cha- racter , or the time of her death , we have no account . His second wife was Mary , the daughter of ...
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... Lady Carteret was very im- portunate , at the same time declaring to her Ladyship , that if it had been in his power to have made the gentleman a Dean or a Bishop , he would have obliged • her willingly , because , he said , Deaneries ...
... Lady Carteret was very im- portunate , at the same time declaring to her Ladyship , that if it had been in his power to have made the gentleman a Dean or a Bishop , he would have obliged • her willingly , because , he said , Deaneries ...
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... Lady Elizabeth Hastings , the daughter of Theophilus , the seventh Earl of Huntingdon , a lady celebrated as a pattern of munificence and piety . By her historical charac f Nichols's Select Collection of Poems , vol . iv . p . 181. In ...
... Lady Elizabeth Hastings , the daughter of Theophilus , the seventh Earl of Huntingdon , a lady celebrated as a pattern of munificence and piety . By her historical charac f Nichols's Select Collection of Poems , vol . iv . p . 181. In ...
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... lady.— The company asked what lady ? but he said no more , until they broke up at six in the morning . All the ensuing winter he went from church to church every Sunday , and from play - house to play - house every night in the week ...
... lady.— The company asked what lady ? but he said no more , until they broke up at six in the morning . All the ensuing winter he went from church to church every Sunday , and from play - house to play - house every night in the week ...
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Seite 312 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Seite 311 - ... 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.
Seite 311 - Suit the action to the word, the word to the action: with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form, and pressure.
Seite 310 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus; but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious, periwigpated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise.
Seite xxiii - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.
Seite 375 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia...
Seite iii - The general purpose of this Paper is to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and affectation, and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour.
Seite 311 - But he knew that such indiscriminate prodigality was, to use his own admirable language, "from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was, and is, to hold, as it were, the mirror up to Nature.
Seite xxx - I must confess I am amazed that the press should be only made use of in this way by news-writers, and the zealots of parties; as if it were not more advantageous to mankind, to be instructed in wisdom and virtue, than in politics ; and to be made good fathers, husbands, and sons, than counsellors and statesmen.
Seite 30 - Polly, till then obscure, became all at once the favourite of the town; her pictures were engraved, and sold in great numbers; her life written, books of letters and verses to her published, and pamphlets made even of her sayings and jests. Furthermore, it drove out of England, for that season, the Italian opera, which had carried all before it for ten years.