Celebrities I Have Known: With Episodes, Political, Social, Sporting and TheatricalHurst and Blackett, 1877 |
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... Richard Barham ( Ingoldsby ) , and the late Lord Lytton . It would be a work of supererogation to dwell on the life of Sir Walter Scott , I shall therefore confine myself to two very pleasant days I passed in the society of this gifted ...
... Richard Barham ( Ingoldsby ) , and the late Lord Lytton . It would be a work of supererogation to dwell on the life of Sir Walter Scott , I shall therefore confine myself to two very pleasant days I passed in the society of this gifted ...
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... Richard Barham , I called one day on Jerdan at Grove House , Brompton . He showed us the sup- pressed book , of which the whole five hundred copies were burnt in Ireland , with the exception of this , and said that he was about to send ...
... Richard Barham , I called one day on Jerdan at Grove House , Brompton . He showed us the sup- pressed book , of which the whole five hundred copies were burnt in Ireland , with the exception of this , and said that he was about to send ...
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... tells us he heard Sheridan only once , and that briefly , but he liked " his voice , his man- ner , and his wit ; " adding , " that he was the only REV . RICHARD BARHAM . 45 Member of the House 44 CELEBRITIES I HAVE KNOWN .
... tells us he heard Sheridan only once , and that briefly , but he liked " his voice , his man- ner , and his wit ; " adding , " that he was the only REV . RICHARD BARHAM . 45 Member of the House 44 CELEBRITIES I HAVE KNOWN .
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... RICHARD BARHAM . 45 Member of the House he wished to hear at greater length . " His " Monody on the death of R. B. Sheridan , " spoken at Drury Lane , is too well known to be repeated . I must now refer to some of the literary charac ...
... RICHARD BARHAM . 45 Member of the House he wished to hear at greater length . " His " Monody on the death of R. B. Sheridan , " spoken at Drury Lane , is too well known to be repeated . I must now refer to some of the literary charac ...
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... Richard Barham , son of " Ingoldsby , " tells us , and tells us truly , that " a pun , when repeated , loses somewhat of its relish ; that you want it hot from the intellectual furnace ; like an omelette , pancake , or fondu it becomes ...
... Richard Barham , son of " Ingoldsby , " tells us , and tells us truly , that " a pun , when repeated , loses somewhat of its relish ; that you want it hot from the intellectual furnace ; like an omelette , pancake , or fondu it becomes ...
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Сторінка 200 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Сторінка 79 - Their dearest action in the tented field ; And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle ; And therefore little shall I grace my cause, In speaking for myself...
Сторінка 83 - It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air.
Сторінка 124 - The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or poem unlimited : Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light.
Сторінка 84 - ... seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale ; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their...
Сторінка 97 - Music ! oh, how faint, how weak, Language fades before thy spell ! Why should Feeling ever speak, When thou canst breathe her soul so well ? Friendship's balmy words may feign. Love's are even more false than they ; Oh ! 'tis only Music's strain Can sweetly soothe, and not betray!
Сторінка 27 - Next view in state, proud prancing on his roan, The golden-crested haughty Marmion, Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight, The gibbet or the field prepared to grace; A mighty mixture of the great and base.
Сторінка 85 - It raiseth admiration, as signifying a nimble sagacity of apprehension, a special felicity of invention, a vivacity of spirit, and reach of wit...