Mimic Life: Or, Before and Behind the Curtain. A Series of NarrativesTicknor and Fields, 1856 - 408 páginas |
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... hand- some volume of four hundred and forty - eight duodecimo pages , well printed and bound . The scenes , incidents , and characters , so graphically presented , are distributed through various portions of this country and Europe ...
... hand- some volume of four hundred and forty - eight duodecimo pages , well printed and bound . The scenes , incidents , and characters , so graphically presented , are distributed through various portions of this country and Europe ...
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... hands were ever tendered to lift other people's burdens ; her sympathies ever ready to fly east or west , whichever Way besought them . ” Her existence was completely merged in that of others . A crowd of curious idlers , or intended ...
... hands were ever tendered to lift other people's burdens ; her sympathies ever ready to fly east or west , whichever Way besought them . ” Her existence was completely merged in that of others . A crowd of curious idlers , or intended ...
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... hand ; her whole mien betokened the most perfect apathy . She could not occupy her- self ; she could not converse , or even think ; she wholly surrendered her spirit to the dominion of a sorrow that paralyzed all her faculties . Grief ...
... hand ; her whole mien betokened the most perfect apathy . She could not occupy her- self ; she could not converse , or even think ; she wholly surrendered her spirit to the dominion of a sorrow that paralyzed all her faculties . Grief ...
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... hand that lay in her lap . " Mother ; I want to talk to you , if you have strength to hear me . May I ? " " Yes , " was the languidly - uttered reply . " But I shall perhaps startle you by a project that I have at heart . I want you to ...
... hand that lay in her lap . " Mother ; I want to talk to you , if you have strength to hear me . May I ? " " Yes , " was the languidly - uttered reply . " But I shall perhaps startle you by a project that I have at heart . I want you to ...
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... hand . " Not so fast , my dear little histrionic candidate ! You quite take away my breath with your impetuous spirit . We can't build up this theatrical Rome of yours in a day . I expect a young clerical pupil in a few moments ...
... hand . " Not so fast , my dear little histrionic candidate ! You quite take away my breath with your impetuous spirit . We can't build up this theatrical Rome of yours in a day . I expect a young clerical pupil in a few moments ...
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Página 309 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Página 184 - He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone, At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.
Página 41 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end both at the first, and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Página 185 - There's fennel for you, and columbines; there's rue for you; and here's some for me; we may call it herb of grace o' Sundays. O, you must wear your rue with a difference. There's a daisy; I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died.
Página 186 - And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead; Go to thy death-bed, He never will come again. His beard was as white as snow All flaxen was his poll, He is gone, he is gone, And we cast away moan: God ha
Página 259 - Only for wantonness. By my Christendom, So I were out of prison, and kept sheep, I should be as merry as the day is long...
Página 281 - Full fathom five thy father lies, Of his bones are coral made : Those are pearls that were his eyes, Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea change, Into something rich and strange.
Página 21 - Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn; happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn; Happiest of all in that her gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed, As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Página 351 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Página 122 - To a babbling wanderer sent ; Like her ordinary cry, Like, but oh, how different ! Hears not also mortal life ? Hear not we, unthinking creatures ! Slaves of folly, love, or strife, Voices of two different natures...