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, כרך 1R. Bentley, 1833 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 49
עמוד v
... brother , George Simpson , becomes an actor - Bury Fair - In 1771 pays a visit to her sister in London - Mr . Inchbald an early ad- mirer - Reply to proposals from him - Standingfield - Griffith- Steals his picture - Quits home in April ...
... brother , George Simpson , becomes an actor - Bury Fair - In 1771 pays a visit to her sister in London - Mr . Inchbald an early ad- mirer - Reply to proposals from him - Standingfield - Griffith- Steals his picture - Quits home in April ...
עמוד ix
... brother George Simpson - Dramatic concerns- Haymarket season - Hayley's Plays in rhyme - Author's esteem for Hayley - ' The Widow's Vow ' - Its success - Robinson buys her I'll Tell You What'- City again Buys £ 200 Five per Cent . Stock ...
... brother George Simpson - Dramatic concerns- Haymarket season - Hayley's Plays in rhyme - Author's esteem for Hayley - ' The Widow's Vow ' - Its success - Robinson buys her I'll Tell You What'- City again Buys £ 200 Five per Cent . Stock ...
עמוד xi
... brother Simpson falls in a duel - Mrs. Whitfield's death , and Mrs. Dobson's - Kemble - The Abercorns at Stanmore - Carlton House - Miss Wallis and the Loughboroughs - Lady Lanesborough denied - Savings of economy APPENDIX . page 331 ...
... brother Simpson falls in a duel - Mrs. Whitfield's death , and Mrs. Dobson's - Kemble - The Abercorns at Stanmore - Carlton House - Miss Wallis and the Loughboroughs - Lady Lanesborough denied - Savings of economy APPENDIX . page 331 ...
עמוד xiii
... brother , George Simpson , becomes an actor - Bury Fair - In 1771 pays a visit to her sister in London - Mr . Inchbald an early admirer - Reply to proposals from him - Standingfield - Griffith -Steals his picture - Quits home in April ...
... brother , George Simpson , becomes an actor - Bury Fair - In 1771 pays a visit to her sister in London - Mr . Inchbald an early admirer - Reply to proposals from him - Standingfield - Griffith -Steals his picture - Quits home in April ...
עמוד 6
... brother went to school seven years , and never could spell . I and two of my sisters , though we never were taught , could spell from our infancy . " It is a singular feature in her character that , though she shunned company , she ...
... brother went to school seven years , and never could spell . I and two of my sisters , though we never were taught , could spell from our infancy . " It is a singular feature in her character that , though she shunned company , she ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
acquaintance acted actor actress admiration amusement appears arrived attended beautiful brother called Catholic character Colman comedy compliments connexions Covent-Garden DEAR MADAM dear Muse Digges dined doubt Edinburgh engagement Eusèbe farce father George Simpson Gisborne give Glan GURET happy Hardinge Harris Holcroft honour hope husband Inchbald Jane Shore Kemble Kemble family lady Leicester Square letter lived lodgings London Lord manager mind Miss month morning mother never night Norwich occasion pantomime passed performed person piece play pleasure pounds present racter reader received rehearsal returned Richard Griffith salary School for Scandal seems sent Siddons Simple Story Simpson Sir Charles Bunbury sister Dolly sister Hunt stage Standingfield Street Sunday suppose Tate Wilkinson theatre theatrical thing thought tion took town tragedy TRICASTIN Twiss usual virtue walked week Whitfield wife wish write wrote
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 155 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
עמוד 208 - You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both! If it be you that stir these daughters...
עמוד 208 - Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button. Thank you, sir. Do you see this? Look on her, look, her lips, Look there, look there!
עמוד 144 - Sir Giles Overreach, how is it with Your honourable daughter ? Has her honour Slept well to-night? or, will her honour please To accept this monkey, dog, or paraquit,5 (This is state in ladies), or my eldest son To be her page, and wait upon her trencher...
עמוד 145 - We worldly men, when we see friends and kinsmen Past hope sunk in their fortunes, lend no hand To lift them up, but rather set our feet Upon their heads, to press them to the bottom.
עמוד 276 - Guided by a wish, that the reflecting reader may experience the sensation, which an attention to circumstances like these, must excite ; he is desired to imagine seventeen years elapsed, since he has seen or heard of any of those persons who, in the foregoing part of this narrative have been introduced to his acquaintance ; — and then, supposing himself at the period of those seventeen years, follow the sequel of their history.
עמוד 340 - What mortal eye can fix'd behold? Who stalks his round, an hideous form, Howling amidst the midnight storm ; Or throws him on the ridgy steep Of some loose hanging rock to sleep...
עמוד 41 - A course of small, quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as to be misunderstood, with now and then a look of kindness, and little or nothing said upon it, leaves Nature for your mistress, and she fashions it to her mind.
עמוד 317 - ... but agrees with the verb, or is governed by the verb or the preposition, expressed or understood ; as, " Thou art wiser than I ;" that is,
עמוד 282 - Save me!" Her voice unmanned him. His long-restrained tears now burst forth, and, seeing her relapsing into the swoon, he cried out eagerly to recall her. Her name did not, however, come to his recollection — nor any name but this : " Miss Milner — dear Miss Milner...