Mrs. Jordan, 2 tomasGrolier Society, 1800 |
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... Lady Selina , Miss Decamp - Sketch of That Character - Cobbett would Not Illuminate on the Peace - Applies for a Guard - Answer of the Minister- M. Otto's House and Mr. Bull's Mistake - Concord Declared an Insult by Acclamation- M. Otto ...
... Lady Selina , Miss Decamp - Sketch of That Character - Cobbett would Not Illuminate on the Peace - Applies for a Guard - Answer of the Minister- M. Otto's House and Mr. Bull's Mistake - Concord Declared an Insult by Acclamation- M. Otto ...
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... Ladies Who Know Every- thing but Her Person Her Return to Bushy , and Visit to Dublin - Her Letter as to Her Prospects There- Author's Observations - Her Manner in Society - Like Mrs. Siddons , no Showy Talker - Treatment of Her by the ...
... Ladies Who Know Every- thing but Her Person Her Return to Bushy , and Visit to Dublin - Her Letter as to Her Prospects There- Author's Observations - Her Manner in Society - Like Mrs. Siddons , no Showy Talker - Treatment of Her by the ...
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... lady of her fortune by the Torrids and the Lizards , who appear to have cultivated their amiable propensity to ... Lady Esther Dorville , whose husband was actually the father of Rosa by another lady , whom parental cruelty had torn from ...
... lady of her fortune by the Torrids and the Lizards , who appear to have cultivated their amiable propensity to ... Lady Esther Dorville , whose husband was actually the father of Rosa by another lady , whom parental cruelty had torn from ...
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James Boadan. ladies destined to the India market . There was comedy in such an establishment . Rosa was but the weaker half of Mrs. Jordan , the young lady ; but " where was the comedy ? " Colman wrote an epilogue for her ; one of those ...
James Boadan. ladies destined to the India market . There was comedy in such an establishment . Rosa was but the weaker half of Mrs. Jordan , the young lady ; but " where was the comedy ? " Colman wrote an epilogue for her ; one of those ...
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... woman ( as Foote would call her ) , a Lady Diamond , plans the ruin of a young man , whose name is Clarenceforth . She has a dependent , Miss Ellen Metland , who has so much humanity as to acquaint the young gentle- man with MRS . JORDAN ...
... woman ( as Foote would call her ) , a Lady Diamond , plans the ruin of a young man , whose name is Clarenceforth . She has a dependent , Miss Ellen Metland , who has so much humanity as to acquaint the young gentle- man with MRS . JORDAN ...
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actor actress admired Alsop amusement appeared audience Bannister benefit Betty boxes Bushy BUSHY HOUSE called certainly character Charles Kemble Colman comedy conduct Cooke Covent Garden Theatre Cumberland daughters dear delighted DORA JORDAN Drury Lane Theatre Duke of Clarence effect Elliston excellent Falstaff fancy farce feel Fitzclarence fortune France Garrick genius gentleman grace Hamlet happy Harris Haymarket Henry Fitzclarence honour husband illustrious Jonah Barrington Kemble Kemble's King Kotzebue lady language laugh letter Lord Macbeth Majesty manager married master ment mind Miss mother nature never night noble occasion Opera performers person piece Pizarro play present prince profession proprietors received Richard Ford rival Royal Highness scene School for Scandal season seemed Selim Shakespeare Sheridan Siddons Sir Jonah stage talent thought tion town tragedy wife wish woman write written Wroughton young
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100 psl. - Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do;' Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.
251 psl. - My forbearance, he says, is beyond what he could have imagined ! But what will not a woman do who is firmly and sincerely attached ? Had he left me to starve, I never would have uttered a word to his disadvantage. I enclose you two other letters ; and in a day or two you shall see more, the rest being in the hands of the R 1. And now, my dear friend, do not hear the D. of C. unfairly abused.
20 psl. - ... perfectly free. It is assumed, I know, to give dignity and variety to the style ; but whatever success the attempt may sometimes have, it is always obtained at the expense of purity and of the graces that are natural and appropriate to our language. It is true that when the exigence calls for auxiliaries of all sorts, and common language becomes unequal to the demands of extraordinary thoughts, something ought to be conceded to the necessities which make " ambition virtue ;" but the allowances...
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