The Biographical Mirrour: Comprising a Series of Ancient and Modern English Portraits, of Eminent and Distinguished Persons, from Original Pictures and Drawings, Volume 1S. and E. Harding, 1795 |
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... speak , so vary . ' The character of Barabas , the Jew of Malta , is a capital one ; and to have gained the addition of peerless by the performance of it , the actor must have been gifted with super - eminent powers . Ben Jonson , who ...
... speak , so vary . ' The character of Barabas , the Jew of Malta , is a capital one ; and to have gained the addition of peerless by the performance of it , the actor must have been gifted with super - eminent powers . Ben Jonson , who ...
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... speaking of Alleyn about the period of his zenith , says , that " he had then so captivated the town , and so monopolized the favour of his audience by those agreeable varieties he could so readily command , in his voice , countenance ...
... speaking of Alleyn about the period of his zenith , says , that " he had then so captivated the town , and so monopolized the favour of his audience by those agreeable varieties he could so readily command , in his voice , countenance ...
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... speaking of Prynne , says , " let him try it when he will , and come upon the Stage himself , with " all the scurrility of the Wife of Bath , with all the ribaldry of Poggius , or Boccace , yet I dare affirm , he shall never give that ...
... speaking of Prynne , says , " let him try it when he will , and come upon the Stage himself , with " all the scurrility of the Wife of Bath , with all the ribaldry of Poggius , or Boccace , yet I dare affirm , he shall never give that ...
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... speak thus of him : Ho ! " I kept the stage in Master Tarlton's time , I thank my stars . " an ' that man had liv'd to have play'd in Bartholomew Fair , you should " ha ' seen him ha ' come in , and ha ' been cozened i ' the cloth ...
... speak thus of him : Ho ! " I kept the stage in Master Tarlton's time , I thank my stars . " an ' that man had liv'd to have play'd in Bartholomew Fair , you should " ha ' seen him ha ' come in , and ha ' been cozened i ' the cloth ...
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... speak of her husband at a much later period than that at which the portrait we have given was drawn ; when , as we have been informed , he was but eigh- teen years old . " Remember your father ; whose true image though I can never draw ...
... speak of her husband at a much later period than that at which the portrait we have given was drawn ; when , as we have been informed , he was but eigh- teen years old . " Remember your father ; whose true image though I can never draw ...
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Page 106 - MY DEAR mistress has a heart Soft as those kind looks she gave me; When with love's resistless art, And her eyes, she did enslave me. But her constancy's so weak, She's so wild and apt to wander, That my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder.
Page 79 - Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.
Page 57 - THE BOWMAN'S GLORY ; or archery revived. Giving an account of the many signal favours vouchsafed to archers and archery by those renowned monarchs, King Henry VIII., James, and Charles I. As by their several gracious commissions here recited may appear. With a brief relation of the manner of the archers marching on several days of solemnity. Published by William Wood, marshal to the Regiment of Archers.
Page 94 - Was still inclin'd to noble Poesie; And when that once Pueriles I had read And newly had my Cato construed...
Page 75 - WHAT man that sees the ever-whirling wheele, Of Change, the which all mortall things doth sway, But that therby doth find, and plainly feele, How MUTABILITY in them doth play Her cruell sports to many mens decay...
Page 100 - Grave morrall Spencer after these came on Then whom I am perswaded there was none Since the blind Bard his Iliads up did make, Fitter a taske like that to undertake, To set downe boldly, bravely to invent, In all high knowledge, surely excellent.
Page 105 - I hope in your conversation to be " exalted to that degree of piety, that the world " may see how much I abhor what I so long " loved, and how much I glory in repentance " and in God's service. Bestow your prayers " upon me, that God would spare me (if it be
Page 23 - There was never so great a mind and spirit contained in so little room ; so large an understanding and so unrestrained a fancy in so very small a body; so that the lord Falkland used to say merrily, that he thought it was a great ingredient into his friendship for Mr. Godolphin, that he was pleased to be found in his company, where he was the properer man...
Page 40 - Aesop, men, Yet crown'd with honours, as with riches, then; Who had no less a trumpet of their name, Than Cicero, whose every breath was fame: How can so great example die in me, That, Alleyn, I should pause to publish thee?
Page 18 - ... in all his actions, and professed his religion in his life and conversation. He was a true Protestant of the Church of England, so born, so brought up, and so died ; his conversation was so honest that I never heard him speak a word in my life that tended to God's dishonour, or encouragement of any kind of debauchery or sin.