The Merry Monarch: Or, England Under Charles II. Its Art, Literature and Society, Band 2Remington & Company, 1885 |
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... less generous was the Countess of Holland , who erected a private stage at her mansion , Holland House , Kensington . It was necessary that these performances should take place with the greatest precau- tions , and we are told that ...
... less generous was the Countess of Holland , who erected a private stage at her mansion , Holland House , Kensington . It was necessary that these performances should take place with the greatest precau- tions , and we are told that ...
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... less pleasant . " But on this occasion , to make some amends , Mrs. Davenport , the actress , was there , in the chief box , radiant in a velvet gown , which was then " the fashion . " At the Cockpit , on the 5th , the Duke and Duchess ...
... less pleasant . " But on this occasion , to make some amends , Mrs. Davenport , the actress , was there , in the chief box , radiant in a velvet gown , which was then " the fashion . " At the Cockpit , on the 5th , the Duke and Duchess ...
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... less successful as Manly in Wycherley's " Plain Dealer . " Rymer refers to him and Mohun as the Esopus and Roscius of their time . His handsome presence made him a great favourite with the ladies , and we know that he was Nell Gwynn's ...
... less successful as Manly in Wycherley's " Plain Dealer . " Rymer refers to him and Mohun as the Esopus and Roscius of their time . His handsome presence made him a great favourite with the ladies , and we know that he was Nell Gwynn's ...
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... less admirable as Shakes- peare's Falstaff than as the Irishman Teague in Howard's farcical comedy of " The Committee . " * All parts came alike to him , but for the beaux and lovers of comedy he was specially fitted by his handsome ...
... less admirable as Shakes- peare's Falstaff than as the Irishman Teague in Howard's farcical comedy of " The Committee . " * All parts came alike to him , but for the beaux and lovers of comedy he was specially fitted by his handsome ...
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... less than £ 520 . On this occasion he played Valentine in " Love for Love . " Next year it was determined that the benefit should be repeated . At the time Betterton was suffering severely from gout ; and before he could limp upon the ...
... less than £ 520 . On this occasion he played Valentine in " Love for Love . " Next year it was determined that the benefit should be repeated . At the time Betterton was suffering severely from gout ; and before he could limp upon the ...
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Seite 86 - Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.
Seite 260 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings, till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant and stay till the storm was over ; and then...
Seite 90 - By likening spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Seite 250 - Thou that art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that remain in the broad sea.
Seite 111 - Go, lovely Rose! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.
Seite 254 - ... asked him why he did not worship the God of heaven ? The old man told him that he worshipped the fire only, and acknowledged no other God ; at which answer Abraham grew so zealously angry, that he thrust the old man out of his tent, and exposed him to all the evils of the night and an unguarded condition. When the old man was gone, God called to Abraham, and asked him where the stranger was? He replied, I thrust him away because he did not worship thee...
Seite 84 - Him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon, i with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of...
Seite 338 - Forgive, me, LORD, for Thy dear SON, The ill that I this day have done ; That with the world, myself, and Thee, I, ere I sleep, at peace may be.
Seite 84 - For who knows not that Truth is strong, next to the Almighty ; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious, those are the shifts and the defences that Error uses against her power.
Seite 414 - To us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.