The Quarterly Review, Volume 132John Murray, 1872 |
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... Lives of Mrs. Siddons and her brother , John Philip Kemble . By Percy Fitzgerald , M.A. , F.S.A. Author of The Life of Garrick . ' London , 1871 - Page 2 vols . - 1 II . - The Works of John Hookham Frere in Verse and Prose , now first ...
... Lives of Mrs. Siddons and her brother , John Philip Kemble . By Percy Fitzgerald , M.A. , F.S.A. Author of The Life of Garrick . ' London , 1871 - Page 2 vols . - 1 II . - The Works of John Hookham Frere in Verse and Prose , now first ...
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... Lives of Mrs. Siddons and her brother , John Philip Kemble . By Percy Fitzgerald , M.A. , F.S.A. Author of The Life of Garrick . ' London , 1871 6 Page 2 vols . - 1 II . The Works of John Hookham Frere in Verse and Prose , now first ...
... Lives of Mrs. Siddons and her brother , John Philip Kemble . By Percy Fitzgerald , M.A. , F.S.A. Author of The Life of Garrick . ' London , 1871 6 Page 2 vols . - 1 II . The Works of John Hookham Frere in Verse and Prose , now first ...
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... lives of Mrs. Siddons and her brother , John Philip Kemble . By Percy Fitzgerald , M.A. , F.S.A. Author of The Life of Garrick . ' 2 vols . London , 1871 . TH HE Lives of the Kembles by Boaden and Campbell are undoubtedly poor specimens ...
... lives of Mrs. Siddons and her brother , John Philip Kemble . By Percy Fitzgerald , M.A. , F.S.A. Author of The Life of Garrick . ' 2 vols . London , 1871 . TH HE Lives of the Kembles by Boaden and Campbell are undoubtedly poor specimens ...
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... live in an atmosphere of culture and refinement . If I am only a vulgar and ordinary woman , ' says Clairon , ' during twenty of the four - and - twenty hours of the day , whatever effort I may make , I shall be only an ordinary or ...
... live in an atmosphere of culture and refinement . If I am only a vulgar and ordinary woman , ' says Clairon , ' during twenty of the four - and - twenty hours of the day , whatever effort I may make , I shall be only an ordinary or ...
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... lives , and all good grace to grace a gentleman . ' In none were these more conspicuous than in the Kemble family , who so soon after Garrick's departure renewed , under a different phase , the splendours of the actor's art ; and ...
... lives , and all good grace to grace a gentleman . ' In none were these more conspicuous than in the Kemble family , who so soon after Garrick's departure renewed , under a different phase , the splendours of the actor's art ; and ...
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Page 400 - He scarce had ceased when the superior Fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast. The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesolè, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 436 - Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. 19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.
Page 530 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the Bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Page 330 - It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it ? neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? but the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Page 529 - Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 444 - In full-blown dignity, see Wolsey stand, Law in his voice, and fortune in his hand...
Page 428 - And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true; and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
Page 460 - I will not, join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my Lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment. It is not a time for adulation: the smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne in the language of truth.
Page 412 - To life obscured, which were a fair dismission, But throw'st them lower than thou didst exalt them high, Unseemly falls in human eye, Too grievous for the trespass or omission ; Oft leavest them to the hostile sword Of heathen and profane, their carcasses To dogs and fowls a prey, or else captived ; Or to the unjust tribunals, under change of times, And condemnation of the ungrateful multitude.
Page 438 - But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past, now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. 24 And they glorified God in me.