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... KEMBLE , By JAMES PARton , . 102 6. EUGENIE , EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH , 7. GRACE GREENWOOD , -MRS . LIPPINCOTT , 8. ALICE AND PHEBE CARY , . 9. MARGARET FULLER OSSOLI , 10. GAIL HAMILTON , -MISS DODGE , By FANNY FERN , 11. ELIZABETH ...
... KEMBLE , By JAMES PARton , . 102 6. EUGENIE , EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH , 7. GRACE GREENWOOD , -MRS . LIPPINCOTT , 8. ALICE AND PHEBE CARY , . 9. MARGARET FULLER OSSOLI , 10. GAIL HAMILTON , -MISS DODGE , By FANNY FERN , 11. ELIZABETH ...
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... woman shrine thee as a vestal flame In all the temples of her sanctity ; And the young child shall take thee by the hand And travel with a surer step to heaven . " MRS . FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE . BY JAMES PARTON . LYDIA H. SIGOURNEY . 101.
... woman shrine thee as a vestal flame In all the temples of her sanctity ; And the young child shall take thee by the hand And travel with a surer step to heaven . " MRS . FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE . BY JAMES PARTON . LYDIA H. SIGOURNEY . 101.
Page 102
... KEMBLE . BY JAMES PARTON . THERE was excitement and expectation among the play- goers of New York , in the early ... Kemble , brother of Mrs. Siddons the peerless , and of John Kemble the magnificent , was coming to America , accom ...
... KEMBLE . BY JAMES PARTON . THERE was excitement and expectation among the play- goers of New York , in the early ... Kemble , brother of Mrs. Siddons the peerless , and of John Kemble the magnificent , was coming to America , accom ...
Page 103
... Kemble had appeared the night before to a crowded house in his favorite part of Hamlet , which he performed with that finish and thoroughness characteristic of all the family of the Kembles . On this evening the house was still more ...
... Kemble had appeared the night before to a crowded house in his favorite part of Hamlet , which he performed with that finish and thoroughness characteristic of all the family of the Kembles . On this evening the house was still more ...
Page 104
... Kemble prompted him , but he was too completely terrified to understand her , and he spoiled the situation . This happened so frequently that the great actress was prevented , not merely from exerting her powers , but from fixing her ...
... Kemble prompted him , but he was too completely terrified to understand her , and he spoiled the situation . This happened so frequently that the great actress was prevented , not merely from exerting her powers , but from fixing her ...
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Page 225 - Of a slight, delicate figure, with a shower of dark curls falling on either side of a most expressive face, large tender eyes richly fringed by dark eyelashes, a smile like a sunbeam...
Page 432 - No one but himself ever lifted her from her bed to her sofa, and he always helped to wheel her on her bed or sofa into the next room. For this purpose he would come instantly, when sent for, from any part of the house. As years went on, and he became overwhelmed with work (for his attentions were the same in all the Queen's subsequent confinements), this was often done at much inconvenience to himself, but he ever came with a sweet smile on his face. In short," the Queen adds, " his care of her was...
Page 591 - ... condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Page 430 - ... watch every part of the public business, in order to be able to advise and assist her at any moment in any of the multifarious and difficult questions or duties brought before her, sometimes international, sometimes political, or social, or personal.
Page 48 - I am fully aware of the unpopularity of the task I have undertaken ; but though I expect ridicule and censure, I do not fear them. A few years hence, the opinion of the world will be a matter in which I have not even the most transient interest ; but this book will be abroad on its mission of humanity long after the hand that wrote it is mingling with the dust.
Page 223 - And I think of those long mornings Which my thought goes far to seek, When, betwixt the folio's turnings, Solemn flowed the rhythmic Greek. Past the pane, the mountain spreading, Swept the sheep-bell's tinkling noise, While a girlish voice was reading Somewhat low for ai's and oit.
Page 304 - Can the Immortality of the Soul be Proved by the Light of Nature ?'...! chose to adopt the negative.
Page 97 - There spake a wishful tenderness, a doubt Whether to grieve or sleep, which innocence Alone may wear. With ruthless haste he bound The silken fringes of those curtaining lids Forever.
Page 34 - I was brought up, both by scientific men and ignorant women, distinctly to believe that small-pox, for instance, was a thing of which there was once a first specimen in the world, which went on propagating itself, in a perpetual chain of descent, just as much as that there was a first dog (or...
Page 233 - Never flinch, But still, unscrupulously epic, catch Upon the burning lava of a song The full-veined, heaving, double-breasted Age : That, when the next shall come, the men of that May touch the impress with reverent hand, and say " Behold, — behold the paps we all have sucked ! This bosom seems to beat still, or at least It sets ours beating : this is living art, Which thus presents and thus records true life.