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Colley Cibber says of him :“ He scarce ever made his first entrance in a play but
he was received with an involuntary applause ; not of hands only , for these may
be , and have often been , par . tially prostituted and bespoken , but by a general
...
Colley Cibber says of him :“ He scarce ever made his first entrance in a play but
he was received with an involuntary applause ; not of hands only , for these may
be , and have often been , par . tially prostituted and bespoken , but by a general
...
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Mr . Smith , " he says , “ whose character as a gentleman could have been no
way impeached , had he not degraded it by being a celebrated actor , had the
misfortune , in a dispute with a gentleman behind the scenes , to receive a blow
from ...
Mr . Smith , " he says , “ whose character as a gentleman could have been no
way impeached , had he not degraded it by being a celebrated actor , had the
misfortune , in a dispute with a gentleman behind the scenes , to receive a blow
from ...
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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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... and his relation to Almahide and King Boabdelin being exactly that which off
the stage he held towards Nell Gwynn and King Charles , every passage
touching upon it was received by the audience with a laughter which pointed the
joke .
... and his relation to Almahide and King Boabdelin being exactly that which off
the stage he held towards Nell Gwynn and King Charles , every passage
touching upon it was received by the audience with a laughter which pointed the
joke .
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This Charles refused ; but the influence she obtained over him was so great that ,
within four years , she had received £60 , 000 . Subsequently , she was placed
on the Excise as a pensioner for £6 , 000 a year , and for £3 , 000 more for the ...
This Charles refused ; but the influence she obtained over him was so great that ,
within four years , she had received £60 , 000 . Subsequently , she was placed
on the Excise as a pensioner for £6 , 000 a year , and for £3 , 000 more for 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.
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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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