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... Kean 182 Madame Mole 496 Magnetism 499 Mahogany saw dust 79 Maiden and the Rose 47 Manuel , a tragedy 942 Marcheta mulieræ 242 Mariner's account of the Friendly Isles 394 Marshal Massena , his death 180 Martin Gaerre , the mysterious ...
... Kean 182 Madame Mole 496 Magnetism 499 Mahogany saw dust 79 Maiden and the Rose 47 Manuel , a tragedy 942 Marcheta mulieræ 242 Mariner's account of the Friendly Isles 394 Marshal Massena , his death 180 Martin Gaerre , the mysterious ...
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... Kean Palais Royale 79 Parisian anecdotes 371 Parisian , a tale 905 Partridges , affection of 99 Pastor's Fire - side Sheep - shearing , dexterity in Shottoe , miss Jane , her death 932 943 Peevishness , its miseries 303 Siddons , mrs ...
... Kean Palais Royale 79 Parisian anecdotes 371 Parisian , a tale 905 Partridges , affection of 99 Pastor's Fire - side Sheep - shearing , dexterity in Shottoe , miss Jane , her death 932 943 Peevishness , its miseries 303 Siddons , mrs ...
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... carried him into Flanders , where he was therance of his designs . He owned a obliged to go , whether he would or not , great many other crimes which he had aracter is Mess • 159 ] Kean's Othello and Sir Giles Overreach .
... carried him into Flanders , where he was therance of his designs . He owned a obliged to go , whether he would or not , great many other crimes which he had aracter is Mess • 159 ] Kean's Othello and Sir Giles Overreach .
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... KEAN has not appeared , since our last , in the parts we intended to have noticed this month ( Bajazet and the Duke ... Kean's bancwn Desdemona ? -Did fiction - even Othello . Never were the workings of persisiction of Shakspeare itself ...
... KEAN has not appeared , since our last , in the parts we intended to have noticed this month ( Bajazet and the Duke ... Kean's bancwn Desdemona ? -Did fiction - even Othello . Never were the workings of persisiction of Shakspeare itself ...
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... Kean's hands , one of the parted bliss : mournful music , but yet most horribly beautiful , and impressive " music . " To this calm succeeds a exhibitions that the histrionic art can storm of contending passions - rage , ha- boast of ...
... Kean's hands , one of the parted bliss : mournful music , but yet most horribly beautiful , and impressive " music . " To this calm succeeds a exhibitions that the histrionic art can storm of contending passions - rage , ha- boast of ...
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Page 117 - Twas still some solace, in the dearth Of the pure elements of earth. To hearken to each other's speech, And each turn comforter to each With some new hope, or legend old, Or song heroically bold ; But even these at length grew cold. Our voices took a dreary tone, An echo of the dungeon-stone, A grating sound— not full and free As they of yore were wont to be: It might be fancy — but to me They never sounded like our own...
Page 195 - But in it there were three tall trees, And o'er it blew the mountain breeze, And by it there were waters flowing, And on it there were young flowers growing Of gentle breath and hue.
Page 405 - The rapid progress true science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon. It is impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over matter.
Page 117 - A double dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave. Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies wherein we lay, We heard it ripple night and day; Sounding o'er our heads it...
Page 119 - The last — the sole — the dearest link Between me and the eternal brink, Which bound me to my failing race, Was broken in this fatal place.
Page 235 - And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even those of God and nature ; fathers incestuously accompanying with their own daughters, the son with the mother, and the brother with the sister.
Page 117 - And in each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain; That iron is a cankering thing, For in these limbs its teeth remain, With marks that will not wear away...
Page 445 - The Poetic Genius of my Country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha — at the PLOUGH, and threw her inspiring mantle over me.
Page 117 - Lake Leman lies by Chillon's walls, A thousand feet in depth below, Its massy waters meet and flow; Thus much the fathom-line was sent...
Page 195 - Returning where my walk begun, Avoiding only, as I trod, My brothers' graves without a sod; For if I thought with heedless tread My step profaned their lowly bed, My breath came gaspingly and thick, And my crush'd heart fell blind and sick.