Sketches of History, Politics, and Manners, in Dublin, and the North of Ireland, in 1810Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1826 - 355 páginas |
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... Covent Garden , to compare the Dublin and London performers . The first act was over when I went in ; this was so far con- venient , that it gave me an opportunity of surveying the house and audience : -as a public building , Crow ...
... Covent Garden , to compare the Dublin and London performers . The first act was over when I went in ; this was so far con- venient , that it gave me an opportunity of surveying the house and audience : -as a public building , Crow ...
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... Covent Garden ; —it was highly and deservedly applauded here . A Mr. Farran exerted his talents with much effect in Dr. Smugface ; I should have seen him I dare say with more pleasure , had I not seen Liston in the same part ; but his ...
... Covent Garden ; —it was highly and deservedly applauded here . A Mr. Farran exerted his talents with much effect in Dr. Smugface ; I should have seen him I dare say with more pleasure , had I not seen Liston in the same part ; but his ...
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... Covent Garden , I wonder they never asked the reason of her exclusion from it : she would be an acquisition , I will venture to assert , to it , or to any theatre in the universe . There may be said , at present , to be no tragic ...
... Covent Garden , I wonder they never asked the reason of her exclusion from it : she would be an acquisition , I will venture to assert , to it , or to any theatre in the universe . There may be said , at present , to be no tragic ...
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... Covent - Garden , which , perhaps , more than compensates for the greater magnificence and de- corations of the latter : there is much more variety ; the appetite is not palled with disgusting repetition ; a new piece seldom runs longer ...
... Covent - Garden , which , perhaps , more than compensates for the greater magnificence and de- corations of the latter : there is much more variety ; the appetite is not palled with disgusting repetition ; a new piece seldom runs longer ...
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... Covent- Garden , last winter , that most intolerably vile , of this vile tribe , Harlequin Pedlar , was performed every night for six weeks together . I wonder what an enlightened foreigner would think , or say , of the English , if he ...
... Covent- Garden , last winter , that most intolerably vile , of this vile tribe , Harlequin Pedlar , was performed every night for six weeks together . I wonder what an enlightened foreigner would think , or say , of the English , if he ...
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Página 280 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Página 308 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Página 279 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Página 276 - Intreat me not to leave thee, Or to return from following after thee : For whither thou goest, I will go ; And where thou lodgest, I will lodge : Thy people shall be my people, And thy God my God : Where thou diest, will I die, And there will I be buried : The LORD do so to me, and more also, If ought but death part thee and me.
Página 276 - Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from «• following after thee, for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Página 198 - Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
Página 340 - It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men ; and the living will lay it to his heart. Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
Página 53 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th
Página 72 - This was the noblest Roman of them all; All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Página 197 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.