Memoirs of Eminent Englishwomen, 第 3 巻R. Bentley, 1844 |
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admiration affection afflicted afterwards amongst appear beauty believe brother Busy Body called cause Centlivre character Charles charming child Colonel Hutchinson comedy Countess court Cromwell daughter dear death died Duchess of Marlborough Duchess of Portsmouth Duchess of Somerset Duchess of York Duke of Monmouth Duke of York Earl Elizabeth England eyes fate father favour fear fortune France friendship gave give grace happy hear heart honour hope husband Jane Lane kind King King's Lady Rachel Lady Russell Lady Sunderland letter lived London Lord Derwentwater Lord Russell manner marriage married melancholy mind mother nature never night Orinda painted passion person play poet Prince Queen remarkable says seems sent Sir Kenelm sister soon sorrow soul speak Stella Stuart Swift tell things thought Thynne told took Vanessa Venetia verses widow wife wish woman write young
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358 ページ - I an enthusiast, still you'd be the deity I should worship. What marks are there of a deity, but what you are to be known by?
281 ページ - And, though defaced, the wonder of the eye; What nature, art, bold fiction e'er durst frame, Her forming hand gave feature to the name. So strange a concourse ne'er was seen before, But when the peopled ark the whole creation bore. VII. The scene then changed: with bold erected look Our martial king the sight with reverence strook: For not content to...
128 ページ - Go, boy, and carve this passion on the bark Of yonder tree, which stands the sacred mark Of noble Sidney's birth...
281 ページ - Were all observed, as well as heavenly face. With such a peerless majesty she stands, As in that day she took the crown from sacred hands: Before a train of heroines was seen, In beauty foremost, as in rank, the queen.
277 ページ - Mov'st with the heavens' majestic pace; Or, call'd to more superior bliss, Thou tread'st, with seraphims, the vast abyss: Whatever happy region is thy place, Cease thy celestial song a little space; Thou wilt have time enough for hymns divine, Since Heaven's eternal year is thine.
400 ページ - I have seen upon the margin of the written part of Falstaff, which he acted, his own notes and observations upon almost every speech of it, describing the true spirit of the humour, and with what tone of voice, with what look or gesture, each of them ought to be delivered.
76 ページ - ... for she was a very faithful mirror, reflecting truly, though but dimly, his own glories upon him, so long as he was present; but she, that was nothing before his inspection gave her a fair figure, when he was removed, was only filled with a dark mist, and never could again take in any delightful object, nor return any shining representation.
378 ページ - Invoking art to nature's aid; Forsook by her admiring train She spreads her tatter'd nets in vain; Short was her part upon the stage; Went smoothly on for half a page; Her bloom was gone, she wanted art, As the scene chang'd, to change her part: She, whom no lover could resist, Before the second act was hiss'd.
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134 ページ - ... and injured in the report of his being privy to the marriage of his Lady's niece, the rich young widow of the late Lord Ogle, sole daughter of the Earl of Northumberland ; showing me a letter of Mr.