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... but they could not suppress the taste for dramatic representations , and
clandestine performances became of frequent occurrence during the Protectorate
. In Lord Hatton , of Scotland Yard , the poor actors found a kindly patron ; and not
less ...
... but they could not suppress the taste for dramatic representations , and
clandestine performances became of frequent occurrence during the Protectorate
. In Lord Hatton , of Scotland Yard , the poor actors found a kindly patron ; and not
less ...
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And it was so on New Year ' s Day , 1663 : “ the house was full of citizens , and so
the 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 ...
And it was so on New Year ' s Day , 1663 : “ the house was full of citizens , and so
the 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 ...
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He was not less successful as Manly in Wycherley ' s “ Plain Dealer . ” Rymer
refers to him and Mohun as the Æsopus and Roscius of their time . His
handsome presence made him a great favourite with the ladies , and we know
that he was ...
He was not less successful as Manly in Wycherley ' s “ Plain Dealer . ” Rymer
refers to him and Mohun as the Æsopus and Roscius of their time . His
handsome presence made him a great favourite with the ladies , and we know
that he was ...
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A first - rate “ all round ” actor , Lacy was not less admirable as Shakespeare ' 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 ...
A first - rate “ all round ” actor , Lacy was not less admirable as Shakespeare ' 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 ...
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In money for admission he received only £76 ; but the donations poured in so
liberally that the net result was not less than £520 . On this occasion he played
Valentine in “ Love for Love . ” Next year it was determined that the benefit should
be ...
In money for admission he received only £76 ; but the donations poured in so
liberally that the net result was not less than £520 . On this occasion he played
Valentine in “ Love for Love . ” Next year it was determined that the benefit should
be ...
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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.
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| Titel | The Merry Monarch: Or, England Under Charles II. Its Art, Literature and Society, Band 2 The Merry Monarch: Or, England Under Charles II. Its Art, Literature and Society, William Henry Davenport Adams |
| Autor/in | William Henry Davenport Adams |
| Verlag | Remington & Company, 1885 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 18. Sept. 2007 |
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