The Connoisseur, Volume 6Hearst Corporation, 1903 |
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 190 - Proposals for an Association of those Philanthropists, who convinced of the inadequacy of the moral and political state of Ireland to produce benefits which are nevertheless attainable are willing to unite to accomplish its regeneration.
Página 245 - When the Court sat again, Mr. Fox, assisted by Mr. Grey, opened the charge respecting Cheyte Sing, and several days were spent in reading papers and hearing witnesses. The next article was that relating to the Princesses of Oude. The conduct of this part of the case was intrusted to Sheridan.
Página 161 - Lord Mayor of the City of London. Containing a true Description of the several Pageants ; with the Speeches spoken on each Pageant. All set forth at the proper Costs and Charges of the Worshipful Company of Grocers. Together with an exact Relation of the most splendid Entertainments, prepared for the Reception of their Most Sacred Majesties. By Elkanah Settle. 4to. 1692. THE TRIUMPHS OF LONDON.
Página 177 - ... who are never wanting to show their wit and malice on the performances of others. I shall repay their censures with contempt.
Página 123 - This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, among the flowery glades, and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening spring in that divinest climate, and the new life with which it drenches the spirits even to intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama.
Página 132 - Neopolitan as having an extraordinary secret for cleaning pictures, which though I declined listening to at first, I was at length persuaded to send for the man, and tried him by putting into his hands a couple of what I thought the most difficult pictures to clean of any in my house.
Página 245 - His sparkling and highly finished declamation lasted two days; but the Hall was crowded to suffocation during the whole time. It was said that fifty guineas had been paid for a single ticket. Sheridan, when he concluded, contrived, with a knowledge of stage effect which his father might have envied, 25 to sink back, as if exhausted, into the arms of Burke, who hugged him with the energy of generous admiration.
Página 230 - Newland had no extravagant expectations that the world would be drowned in sorrow when it should be his turn to leave it ; and he wrote this ludicrous epitaph on himself shortly before his death : " Beneath this stone old Abraham lies. Nobody laughs, and nobody cries, Where he's gone, and how he fares, No one knows, and no one cares.
Página 173 - ... of twelve, yea, sixteen lengths apiece, set three or four times double ; and it is of some fitly called ' three steps and an half to the gallows.
Página 190 - I hear that he has married a servant or some person of very low birth ; he has been in Ireland some time, and I heard of his speaking at the Catholic Convention.