Memoirs of Mrs. Inchbald: Including Her Familiar Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Persons of Her Time. To which are Added The Massacre, and A Case of Conscience; Now First Published from Her Autograph Copies, Volume 1R. Bentley, 1833 |
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... comedy also in his hands - Now then he reads it , admires it , christens it I'll Tell You What ' - Writes both Prologue and Epilogue - Its original cast Letters from Mr. Twiss of great importance - Draft for £ 300 - Buys into the Funds ...
... comedy also in his hands - Now then he reads it , admires it , christens it I'll Tell You What ' - Writes both Prologue and Epilogue - Its original cast Letters from Mr. Twiss of great importance - Draft for £ 300 - Buys into the Funds ...
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... Comedy fails - Visits her friends in Suffolk - Mrs. Wells Topham , Este , ' The World ' newspaper - Her lovers or friends seldom apart - - page 228 CHAPTER XI . Fate of the Hue and Cry'- ' Animal Magnetism , ' its profits- Le Texier ...
... Comedy fails - Visits her friends in Suffolk - Mrs. Wells Topham , Este , ' The World ' newspaper - Her lovers or friends seldom apart - - page 228 CHAPTER XI . Fate of the Hue and Cry'- ' Animal Magnetism , ' its profits- Le Texier ...
Page x
... comedy - Writes on Synonymy - Sheridan pays for ' The Wedding Day ' before its performance ! -Her sister Debby's decline and death- Comforts administered by Mrs. Inchbald Pays the funeral expenses - Visits Suffolk - Buys into the Long ...
... comedy - Writes on Synonymy - Sheridan pays for ' The Wedding Day ' before its performance ! -Her sister Debby's decline and death- Comforts administered by Mrs. Inchbald Pays the funeral expenses - Visits Suffolk - Buys into the Long ...
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... comedy with which Cumberland too hastily seconded his ' West Indian . ' Angelica , in ' The Constant Couple , ' was followed by Violante in The Wonder , ' in which her husband acted Don Felix . 6 A month having passed among the good ...
... comedy with which Cumberland too hastily seconded his ' West Indian . ' Angelica , in ' The Constant Couple , ' was followed by Violante in The Wonder , ' in which her husband acted Don Felix . 6 A month having passed among the good ...
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... comedy , prevailing in the rival capitals , and which arise more from the nature of their languages than the manners of the people . The rhythm of the French language is greatly independent of emphasis and pause ; it cannot be broken ...
... comedy , prevailing in the rival capitals , and which arise more from the nature of their languages than the manners of the people . The rhythm of the French language is greatly independent of emphasis and pause ; it cannot be broken ...
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Page 157 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
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Page 210 - You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both! If it be you that stir these daughters...
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Page 147 - We worldly men, when we see friends and kinsmen Past hope sunk in their fortunes, lend no hand To lift them up, but rather set our feet Upon their heads, to press them to the bottom.
Page 61 - On which that ancient trump he reach'd was hung : Thither oft, his glory greeting, From Waller's myrtle shades retreating, With many a vow from Hope's aspiring tongue, My trembling feet his guiding steps pursue ; In vain — Such bliss to one alone, Of all the sons of soul, was known ; And Heaven, and Fancy, kindred powers, Have now o'erturn'd th' inspiring bowers; Or curtain'd close such scene from ev'ry future view.
Page 43 - A course of small, quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as to be misunderstood, with now and then a look of kindness, and little or nothing said upon it, leaves Nature for your mistress, and she fashions it to her mind.
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