An Apology for the Life of George Anne Bellamy, Late of Covent-Garden Theatre, Band 3author, and sold, 1786 |
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... should remain here till they had drank such a quantity of wine . I cannot now recollect how much that was ; but when Mr. Beard mentioned it , I thought it was fufficient to serve them for a year . Whilst I was receiving this information ...
... should remain here till they had drank such a quantity of wine . I cannot now recollect how much that was ; but when Mr. Beard mentioned it , I thought it was fufficient to serve them for a year . Whilst I was receiving this information ...
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... should then enable her to retrieve a lofs she had sustained through her indifcretion . After her firft husband , Mr. Delany's death , fhe was unkind enough , though poffeffed of the ability , to refufe affistance to his fifter , who was ...
... should then enable her to retrieve a lofs she had sustained through her indifcretion . After her firft husband , Mr. Delany's death , fhe was unkind enough , though poffeffed of the ability , to refufe affistance to his fifter , who was ...
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... should never be employed in the service more . It was a long while before I could get him reinftated , though I exerted all my intereft for the purpose ; and it impeded his being made a poft captain for years . . In the prosecution of ...
... should never be employed in the service more . It was a long while before I could get him reinftated , though I exerted all my intereft for the purpose ; and it impeded his being made a poft captain for years . . In the prosecution of ...
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... should rob you of a smile which this little ex- curfion of my pen perhaps may excite . - I will there- fore let it ftand as it is , and proceed . My benefits were increafing every year . And I was now fo accustomed to receive the ...
... should rob you of a smile which this little ex- curfion of my pen perhaps may excite . - I will there- fore let it ftand as it is , and proceed . My benefits were increafing every year . And I was now fo accustomed to receive the ...
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... should be this unaccountable propenfity in man ? What they strive to obtain by vows , by bribes , or the most abject fubmiffion ; and purchase by whole years of affiduity ; is no fooner fecured , than it lofes its value . " By keeping ...
... should be this unaccountable propenfity in man ? What they strive to obtain by vows , by bribes , or the most abject fubmiffion ; and purchase by whole years of affiduity ; is no fooner fecured , than it lofes its value . " By keeping ...
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accompliſhed affured almoſt anſwer Antwerp buſineſs Calcraft cauſe Charles Hanbury Williams circumftance confequence confiderable debts defired diſappointment drefs faid fame favour feafon feemed fent fervant feven fhall fhort fhould fifter fince firft firſt fituation fome foon ftill fuccefs fuch fuffer fufficient fuppofed G. A. B. LETTER gentleman GEORGE ANNE BELLAMY greateſt happineſs heart herſelf himſelf Hollwood honour houfe houſe hundred pounds increaſed indifpofition informed intereft John Calcraft juft juſt Lady Lady Rochford Ladyfhip laft laſt leaſt likewife Lord Granby Lord Tyrawley Lordſhip mafter Majefty Metham Mifs moft moſt muſt myſelf never notwithſtanding obferved obliged occafion paffed paffion perfon pleaſed pleaſure poffeffed poffible prevented promiſe propofed purchaſe purpoſe racter reaſon received refidence requeſted ſaid Secretary at War ſee ſhe ſtage ſuch theatre thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thought thouſand tion told uſe uſual vifit viſit whilft whofe whoſe wiſhed
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Seite 80 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Seite 71 - Hath seal'd thee for herself: for thou hast been As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing; A man that fortune's buffets and rewards Hast ta'en with equal thanks : and blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please.
Seite 102 - Recd my Dearest Miss Bellamy Letter at Last : after her long silence, indeed I was very Jealous with you, but you make me amen's in Letting me hear from you now, it gives me great Joy & all our faimely to hear that yr Dr mama and...
Seite 68 - Lordfhip would not fuffer me to enter the gate, left the noifomenefs of the place fhould prove difagreeable to me ; but he ordered the coachman to drive to the George Inn in the Borough, where a dinner was ordered for the happy wretches he was about to liberate.
Seite 66 - At Christmas and Easter he was more than usually grave, and then always had on an old shabby blue coat. I was led, as well as many others, to conclude that it was some affair of the heart which caused this periodical singularity.
Seite 67 - is one of his extraordinary visits. He has but a few to take out to-day." " Do you know who the gentleman is ? " inquired the Major. " "We none of us know him by any other marks," replied the man, " but by his humanity and his blue coat.
Seite 82 - HAIL ye small sweet courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it! like grace and beauty which beget inclinations to love at first sight : 'tis ye who open this door and let the stranger in.
Seite 109 - The pain 1 was in from a blifter, which my indifpofition had rendered neceflary, together with the anxiety naturally attendant on appearing in, a new character, made me anfwer that good man with a petulance, which afterwards gave me uneafinels.