Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Lackington, Allen, & Company, 1807 - 432 pages |
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Page 29
... sure I never took delight in ego- tisms , and now behold ! I am self - devoted to deal in little else . Be it so ! I will abide the consequences ; I will not tell untruths to set myself out for better than I have been , but as I have ...
... sure I never took delight in ego- tisms , and now behold ! I am self - devoted to deal in little else . Be it so ! I will abide the consequences ; I will not tell untruths to set myself out for better than I have been , but as I have ...
Page 43
... sure on all those occasions to be ordered up to the rostrum to recite and expound Juve- nal , and he seldom failed to keep me so employ- ed through the whole time . He had a great partiality for that nervous author , and I remem- ber ...
... sure on all those occasions to be ordered up to the rostrum to recite and expound Juve- nal , and he seldom failed to keep me so employ- ed through the whole time . He had a great partiality for that nervous author , and I remem- ber ...
Page 49
... sure more praise to him is due , Who looks an hundred ways with two . In repeating this epigram , which perhaps the reader can find an author for , I did not VOL . I. E give it out as my own , but it was RICHARD CUMBERLAND . 49 art of ...
... sure more praise to him is due , Who looks an hundred ways with two . In repeating this epigram , which perhaps the reader can find an author for , I did not VOL . I. E give it out as my own , but it was RICHARD CUMBERLAND . 49 art of ...
Page 60
... sure that I act fairly by my readers when I give any part of it a place in these memoirs , yet as an instance of the impression , which my mother's lectures had made upon my youthful fancy , and perhaps as a sample of composition indi ...
... sure that I act fairly by my readers when I give any part of it a place in these memoirs , yet as an instance of the impression , which my mother's lectures had made upon my youthful fancy , and perhaps as a sample of composition indi ...
Page 61
... sure " The wretch shall hourly pace the lazy wharf " To view the beating of the Stygian wave , " And waste his irksome leisure . Romeo , Gracious powers , Is this my doom , my torment- ? Heaven is here Where Juliet lives , and each ...
... sure " The wretch shall hourly pace the lazy wharf " To view the beating of the Stygian wave , " And waste his irksome leisure . Romeo , Gracious powers , Is this my doom , my torment- ? Heaven is here Where Juliet lives , and each ...
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