The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 80A. Constable, 1844 |
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... never attempted Othello again . When Dr Griffiths , many years afterwards , thoughtlessly enquired whether he had ever acted the part ? Sir , ' said he , evidently disconcerted , I once acted it to my cost . ' Sir Charles writes ...
... never attempted Othello again . When Dr Griffiths , many years afterwards , thoughtlessly enquired whether he had ever acted the part ? Sir , ' said he , evidently disconcerted , I once acted it to my cost . ' Sir Charles writes ...
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... never in his life attended but at one , and that rather acciden- tally from its lying in his way , than from design , ) arose from ' the pleasantries which it pleased Sir Charles Hanbury Wil- liams , and the then Lord Chesterfield , to ...
... never in his life attended but at one , and that rather acciden- tally from its lying in his way , than from design , ) arose from ' the pleasantries which it pleased Sir Charles Hanbury Wil- liams , and the then Lord Chesterfield , to ...
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... never failed to do justice to the broiled kidneys ( for which she was famous ) was the Ordinary . Storer ( one of the Selwyn set ) writes in 1774 : - ' You will ' get by your edition of Madame de Sévigné's Letters , enough ' to pay for ...
... never failed to do justice to the broiled kidneys ( for which she was famous ) was the Ordinary . Storer ( one of the Selwyn set ) writes in 1774 : - ' You will ' get by your edition of Madame de Sévigné's Letters , enough ' to pay for ...
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... never suffers companionship to become tiresome , or conversation to grow dull . He may do this with- out uttering any thing that will be generally recognised as wit . We shall here quote some of the best of Selwyn's witticisms and ...
... never suffers companionship to become tiresome , or conversation to grow dull . He may do this with- out uttering any thing that will be generally recognised as wit . We shall here quote some of the best of Selwyn's witticisms and ...
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... never frequenting rehearsals . ' A fellow - passenger in a coach , imagining from his appearance that he was suffering from illness , kept wearying him with good- natured enquiries as to the state of his health . At length , to the ...
... never frequenting rehearsals . ' A fellow - passenger in a coach , imagining from his appearance that he was suffering from illness , kept wearying him with good- natured enquiries as to the state of his health . At length , to the ...
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Seite 274 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding; for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Seite 323 - The body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten in the Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner. And the mean whereby the body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper, is faith.
Seite 20 - Blair's Chronological and Historical Tables, from the Creation to the Present Time : With Additions and Corrections from the most authentic Writers ; including the Computation of St. Paul, as connecting the Period from the Exode to the Temple.
Seite 468 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Seite 15 - When we got to Temple Bar he stopped me, pointed to the heads upon it, and slily whispered me, ' Forsitan et nostrum nomen miscebitur ISTIS.
Seite 19 - LAING.— THE CHRONICLE OF THE KINGS OF NORWAY, From the Earliest Period of the History of the Northern Sea Kings to the Middle of the Twelfth Century, commonly called The Heimskringla. Translated from the Icelandic of Snorro Sturleson, with Notes, and a Preliminary Discourse, by SAMUEL LAINO, Author of " Notes of a Traveller,
Seite 313 - When I mention religion, I mean the Christian religion ; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion ; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
Seite 149 - A GLACIER is AN IMPERFECT FLUID, OR A VISCOUS BODY. WHICH IS URGED DOWN SLOPES OF A CERTAIN INCLINATION BY THE MUTUAL PRESSURE OF ITS PARTS.
Seite 135 - The Glacier's cold and restless mass Moves onward day by day ; But I am he who bids it pass, Or with its ice delay.