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He studied character with a keenly observant eye , and reproduced every detail
with wonderful truth to nature . Both Court and city delighted in him . Charles II . ,
it is said , first recognized his ability when he was playing Norfolk in “ Henry VIII .
He studied character with a keenly observant eye , and reproduced every detail
with wonderful truth to nature . Both Court and city delighted in him . Charles II . ,
it is said , first recognized his ability when he was playing Norfolk in “ Henry VIII .
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... but by a general laughter , which the very sight of him provoked , and nature
could not resist ; yet the londer the laugh the graver was his look upon it ; and
sure the ridiculous solemnity of his features were enough to have set a whole
bench ...
... but by a general laughter , which the very sight of him provoked , and nature
could not resist ; yet the londer the laugh the graver was his look upon it ; and
sure the ridiculous solemnity of his features were enough to have set a whole
bench ...
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I do not doubt but that the poet ' s knowledge of Leigh ' s genius helped him to
many a pleasant stroke of nature , which , without that knowledge , never might
have entered into his conception . " Leigh was on the stage from 1672 to 1692 .
I do not doubt but that the poet ' s knowledge of Leigh ' s genius helped him to
many a pleasant stroke of nature , which , without that knowledge , never might
have entered into his conception . " Leigh was on the stage from 1672 to 1692 .
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... I was resolved to walk thither and see the last offices done to a man whom I
always very much admired , and from whose action I had received more strong
impressions of what is great and noble in human nature , than from the
arguments of ...
... I was resolved to walk thither and see the last offices done to a man whom I
always very much admired , and from whose action I had received more strong
impressions of what is great and noble in human nature , than from the
arguments of ...
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Nature had gifted her with a fine voice and a sharp wit ; and basket in hand she
wandered from tavern to tavern , delighting their frequenters by her songs and
repartees , and captivating the hearts of susceptible link - boys . For a time she ...
Nature had gifted her with a fine voice and a sharp wit ; and basket in hand she
wandered from tavern to tavern , delighting their frequenters by her songs and
repartees , and captivating the hearts of susceptible link - boys . For a time she ...
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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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