The Tribute: A Miscellaneous Volume in Prose and Verse, with Etched IllustrationsO'Leary, 1833 - 228 pages |
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... him the star of Mr. C's company with a salary of five and twenty shillings per week . There was no line in the profes- sion which he could not fill respectably , but though like myself he set out as a tragedian , his 28.
... him the star of Mr. C's company with a salary of five and twenty shillings per week . There was no line in the profes- sion which he could not fill respectably , but though like myself he set out as a tragedian , his 28.
Page 52
... shilling and eleven pence halfpenny , whilst as near as we could calculate the items - the bill amounted to two shillings and three pence . This put a sudden pause to our hitherto vigorous masti- cation . I volunteered to go out and ...
... shilling and eleven pence halfpenny , whilst as near as we could calculate the items - the bill amounted to two shillings and three pence . This put a sudden pause to our hitherto vigorous masti- cation . I volunteered to go out and ...
Page 60
... shillings in the house , and who could think of playing to empty benches ? Little did I dream that the time would come when I should enact before a five shilling audience and be thankful . S. , who , for 60.
... shillings in the house , and who could think of playing to empty benches ? Little did I dream that the time would come when I should enact before a five shilling audience and be thankful . S. , who , for 60.
Page 71
... shillings each , we abandoned all hope of Kilkenny . The only part of the house at all attended was the gallery . On the last night of performance , just as the curtain fell after I died in Jaffier , I started out before the audience ...
... shillings each , we abandoned all hope of Kilkenny . The only part of the house at all attended was the gallery . On the last night of performance , just as the curtain fell after I died in Jaffier , I started out before the audience ...
Page 72
... , fifteen shillings to take them to their homes , and pitied them deeply for the smallness of their funds . I little imagined I should take the same tramp myself with but half - a- crown in my pocket . My poor friend A. , 72.
... , fifteen shillings to take them to their homes , and pitied them deeply for the smallness of their funds . I little imagined I should take the same tramp myself with but half - a- crown in my pocket . My poor friend A. , 72.
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Page 22 - ... in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
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Page 153 - A murderer and a villain ; A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe Of your precedent lord ; a vice of kings ; A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, And put it in his pocket ! Queen.
Page 218 - Lines Written in Early Spring I HEARD a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man. Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes.
Page 28 - The noble sister of Poplicola, The moon of Rome ; chaste as the icicle That's curdled by the frost from purest snow, And hangs on Dian's temple This is no more than illustrating a quality of the mind, by comparing it with a sensible object.
Page 102 - Too like the lightning that doth cease to be Ere one can say 'It lightens.' ' 149. Confusion. Ruin, destruction ; as in Macb. ii. 3. 71, iii. 5. 29, etc. The word is here a quadrisyllable. Gr. 479. Cf. patience, three lines below.
Page 217 - I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.
Page 193 - Gothic empire, be yet tumbling and tossing upon the bed of sickness, they cannot die ; nor is there any means of recovery for them but by ancient prudence, whence of necessity it must come to pass that this drug be better known. If France, Italy, and Spain were not all sick, all corrupted together, there would be none of them so; for the sick would not be able to withstand the sound, nor the sound to preserve their health, without curing of the sick. The first of these nations (which if you stay...
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