Macready's Reminiscences, and Selections from His Diaries and Letters |
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... gave me a present which was laid out in plate for me by my dear mother , and my uncle pre- sented me with Leland's History of Ireland , ' in three volumes , which still keeps its place in my library . We recrossed to Holyhead on our ...
... gave me a present which was laid out in plate for me by my dear mother , and my uncle pre- sented me with Leland's History of Ireland , ' in three volumes , which still keeps its place in my library . We recrossed to Holyhead on our ...
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... gave my name with those of the real delinquents . I was afterwards informed that my name was sent up to Dr. Inglis , on which I went to Birch to protest my innocence , and to offer testimony to the fact that my culpa- bility was that of ...
... gave my name with those of the real delinquents . I was afterwards informed that my name was sent up to Dr. Inglis , on which I went to Birch to protest my innocence , and to offer testimony to the fact that my culpa- bility was that of ...
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... gave prizes for compositions in Latin and English verse once a year , and to test the elocutionary powers of the fifth and sixth forms , gave also prizes for speaking . The latter were inconsiderable , but the novelty gave interest to ...
... gave prizes for compositions in Latin and English verse once a year , and to test the elocutionary powers of the fifth and sixth forms , gave also prizes for speaking . The latter were inconsiderable , but the novelty gave interest to ...
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... gave him what references of respectability I could , and , finding him immovable in his refusal to send us on without four horses , we submitted to this extra charge on condition he would advance three pounds upon the watches and give ...
... gave him what references of respectability I could , and , finding him immovable in his refusal to send us on without four horses , we submitted to this extra charge on condition he would advance three pounds upon the watches and give ...
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... gave her all the help I could . Poor creature ! L- We received here the news of my grandfather's death . He was a tradesman , and , as the Father of the Commons , highly respected in Dublin , as his funeral , the greatest known there ...
... gave her all the help I could . Poor creature ! L- We received here the news of my grandfather's death . He was a tradesman , and , as the Father of the Commons , highly respected in Dublin , as his funeral , the greatest known there ...
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Popular passages
Page 387 - Action is transitory — a step, a blow. The motion of a muscle — this way or that — 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed : Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
Page 122 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Page 182 - And in their silent faces did he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form All melted into bun ; they swallowed up His animal being; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life. In such access of mind, in such high hour Of visitation from the living God, Thought was not ; in enjoyment it expired.
Page 84 - For ill can Poetry express Full many a tone of thought sublime, And Painting, mute and motionless, Steals but a glance of time. But by the mighty actor brought, Illusion's perfect triumphs come, — Verse ceases to be airy thought, And Sculpture to be dumb.
Page 74 - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Page 406 - The discretion of a man deferreth his anger ; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Page 308 - I noted one odd saying of Lamb's, that " the last breath he drew in he wished might be through a pipe and exhaled in a pun.
Page 695 - To fathom the depths of character, to trace its latent motives, to feel its finest quiverings of emotion, to comprehend the thoughts that are hidden under words, and thus possess one's self of the actual mind of the individual man" — such was Macready's definition of the player's art ; and to this we may add the testimony of Talma.
Page 48 - With a spirit of fun that would have out-laughed Puck himself, there was a discrimination, an identity with her character, an artistic arrangement of the scene, that made all appear spontaneous and accidental, though elaborated with the greatest care. Her voice was one of the most melodious I ever heard, which she could vary by certain bass tones, that would have disturbed the gravity of a hermit...
Page 73 - My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late ! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.