The Reliquary, Volumen19

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John Russell Smith, 1879
 

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Página 10 - Barry, in characters of greatness, had a presence of elevated dignity ; her mien and motion superb, and gracefully majestic ; her voice full, clear, and strong, so that no violence of passion could be too much for her ; and when distress or tenderness possessed her, she subsided into the most affecting melody and softness. In the art of exciting pity, she had a power beyond all the actresses I have yet seen, or what your imagination can conceive.
Página 10 - Mrs. Barry, always excellent, has in this tragedy excelled herself, and gained a reputation beyond any woman whom I have ever seen on the theatre.* After all, it was a bold attempt of mine * "Mrs.
Página 149 - Scotland can witness be I have not any captain more Of such account as he." Like tidings to King Henry came Within as short a space, That Percy of Northumberland Was slain in Chevy-Chase: "Now God be with him...
Página 178 - Upon whose grassless floor of red-brown hue, By sheddings from the pining umbrage tinged Perennially, beneath whose sable roof Of boughs, as if for festal purpose...
Página 222 - The JOURNAL of NICHOLAS ASSHETON of DOWNHAM, in the County of Lancaster, Esq., for part of the year 1617, and part of the year following. Interspersed with Notes from the life of his contemporary John Bruen, of Bruen, Stapelford, in the County of Chester, Esq.
Página 104 - Performed in a daunce from London to Norwich. Containing the pleasure, paines, and kinde entertainment of William Kemp betweene London and that Citty in his late Morrice. Wherein is somewhat set downe worth note, to reproove the slaunders spred of him; many things merry, nothing hurtfull. Written by himselfe to satisfie his friends.
Página 25 - was originally applied to the cottages of the poorer peasantry crowded together in a hamlet, instead of each house standing- in its own enclosure. Hence we should not expect to find it in a mountainous country, where, as a rule, cottages do not lie close together. Nor in fact do we. It is rare in Norway, still rarer in Iceland. There are no instances in Cumberland : very few in Westmoreland. But, on the other hand, it is very common in Denmark ; though in the corrupted forms of "trup...
Página 15 - Henry, by the grace of God, king of England and France, and lord of Ireland, To all to whom these present letters shall come greeting: Know ye that...
Página 104 - Aldermen of the City of London, to their great scandal and to the lessening of their authority ; the Lords of the right...
Página 184 - ... now doubts, that the Roman population remained in the island after the withdrawal of the Roman power, and mixed with the Anglo-Saxon conquerors ; that they continued to retain for some time at least their old manners and language, and even their Paganism and their burial ceremonies ; for this is the purely Roman form of sepulchral inscriptions; and that, with their own ceremonies, they buried in the common cemetery of the new Anglo-Saxon possessors of the land, for this urn was found in an Anglo-Saxon...

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