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 2R. Bentley, 1833 |
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Page 127 - The Oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Page 262 - If my step hath turned out of the way, And mine heart walked after mine eyes, And if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands; Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
Page 47 - ... all the actors of my time, that the style of no author whatsoever gave their memory less trouble than that of sir John Vanbrugh ; which I myself, who have been charged with several of his strongest characters, can confirm by a pleasing experience.
Page 261 - But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Page 235 - Temple, Nov. 2nd. " DEAR MRS. INCHBALD, " I am charmed with your comedy in general ; and the criticisms I have to offer on particular parts are so minute, and so little detract from its general merit (supposing them to be just), that I rather choose to reserve them for some opportunity when we can read the play together. It is many flights above any of your plays, and is indeed worthy of you. The satire is just throughout, the dialogue animated in the extreme, and the incidents most happily chosen....
Page 184 - Madame de Stael asked a lady of my acquaintance to introduce her to me. The lady was our mutual acquaintance, of course, and so far my friend as to conceal my place of abode ; yet she menaced me with a visit from the Baroness of Holstein, if I would not consent to meet her at a third house. After much persuasion, I did so. I admired Madame de Stael much ; she talked to me the whole time : so did Miss Edgeworth whenever I met her in company. These authoresses suppose me dead, and seem to pay a tribute...
Page 107 - Iliad,' as Dacier condescend to give comments on ' The Mountaineers.' Be that as it may, I willingly subscribe myself an unlettered woman, and as willingly yield to you all those scholastic honours which you have so excellently described in the following play.
Page 146 - I believed it all to be real, and was affected as I should be by the real scenes, if they had passed before my eyes: it is truly and deeply pathetic.
Page 116 - Tuesday, a beef-steak, preferably beef roasted ; Wednesday, a broiled mutton chop; Thursday, a veal cutlet; Friday, stewed oysters or eggs ; Saturday, nice boiled beef from the cook's shop, or a pork chop, a rabbit, or anything more novel you can think of. " Eat, whenever you have an appetite, but never eat too heartily, especially off different things. Have cake or what you please at tea ; a light supper; but go to bed satisfied, or you will not sleep.
Page 147 - By the force that is necessary to repress feeling, we judge of the intensity of the feeling ; and you always contrive to give us by intelligible but simple signs the measure of this force.