The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ..., Band 8Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1824 |
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... , in arts , in letters , in science , or in all the benevolent and dignified qualities of human nature , which manifest themselves on every side , in cheering and honourable TO variety . One of the most beneficial tendencies of iv PREFACE .
... , in arts , in letters , in science , or in all the benevolent and dignified qualities of human nature , which manifest themselves on every side , in cheering and honourable TO variety . One of the most beneficial tendencies of iv PREFACE .
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... nature of this extensive and complicated command , consisting at one time of upwards of a hundred and twenty pennants , required that his Lordship should be established on shore , at some convenient station for maintaining his ...
... nature of this extensive and complicated command , consisting at one time of upwards of a hundred and twenty pennants , required that his Lordship should be established on shore , at some convenient station for maintaining his ...
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... nature speaks more for a man than a thousand subscriptions to public charities ; the object of which is too frequently a mere display of generosity . At a subsequent period his Grace delicately and finely remarked that Mr. Kemble had ...
... nature speaks more for a man than a thousand subscriptions to public charities ; the object of which is too frequently a mere display of generosity . At a subsequent period his Grace delicately and finely remarked that Mr. Kemble had ...
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... nature , as it existed in their own minds . Com- paring him with their own notions , indeed in many cases with their own knowledge of the prototype in nature of the part which he was performing , they felt that the representa- tion and ...
... nature , as it existed in their own minds . Com- paring him with their own notions , indeed in many cases with their own knowledge of the prototype in nature of the part which he was performing , they felt that the representa- tion and ...
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... nature , because he had seen that nature , artificially combined , would produce a greater effect ; that his playing therefore was not to be judged by its resemblance to ordinary nature , and general character , but by its conformity ...
... nature , because he had seen that nature , artificially combined , would produce a greater effect ; that his playing therefore was not to be judged by its resemblance to ordinary nature , and general character , but by its conformity ...
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action Admiral afterwards Angerstein appeared appointed army attack attention Baillie became Bishop Bishop of Calcutta brigade British brother Captain celebrated character Colonel command cowpox daughter death disease distinguished Duke Duke of Wellington Dumouriez duty Earl St effect eminent enemy enemy's England expression father favour feelings fleet Foudroyant France French George George Beckwith Glenbervie guns Henry Raeburn honour Hope House Hutton Jenner JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE Kemble Kemble's King late letter Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Lieutenant-General London Lord Lord Keith Lordship Majesty Majesty's Major-General manner married ment mind Mysteries of Udolpho nature naval never noble Nollekens observed occasion officers parliament person physician picture Playfair possession present profession racter Radcliffe received regiment respect retired Royal Schanck ships Sir David Baird Sir Henry Sir John Jervis smallpox Society soon squadron talents tion took troops vaccination Vincent William wounded
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Seite 36 - Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate...
Seite 45 - His transport's most impetuous tone, And to each passion of his breast The graces gave their zone. High were the task — too high, Ye conscious bosoms here ! In words to paint your memory Of Kemble and of Lear; But who forgets that white discrowned head, Those bursts of reason's half-extinguish'd glare — Those tears upon Cordelia's bosom shed, In doubt more touching than despair, If 'twas reality he felt?
Seite 55 - Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my latter end be like his.
Seite 420 - LL.D., Downing Professor of the Laws of England in the University of Cambridge.
Seite 198 - Vaccinae, A Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Counties of England. Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox...
Seite 35 - I have liv'd long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf: And that which should accompany .old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, but dare not.
Seite 45 - For ill can Poetry express Full many a tone of thought sublime, And Painting, mute and motionless, Steals but a glance of time. But by the mighty actor brought, Illusion's perfect triumphs come, — Verse ceases to be airy thought, And Sculpture to be dumb.
Seite 93 - His figure was striking, but not so from grace ; it was tall, and, though extremely thin, his limbs were large and uncouth, and as he stalked along, wrapt in the black garments of his order, there was something terrible in its air ; something almost superhuman.
Seite 471 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Seite 117 - Our tender plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.