The Life and Times of Frederick Reynolds, Volume 1

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Page 85 - I'll make a ghost of him that lets me; the Hamlet who scarcely once speaks to the King without an insult, or to Polonius without a gibe ; the Hamlet who storms at Ophelia and speaks daggers to his mother; the Hamlet who, hearing a cry behind the arras, whips out his sword in an instant and runs the eavesdropper through ; the Hamlet who sends...
Page 288 - Why dost thou awake me, O gale," it seems to say ; " I am covered with the drops of heaven. The time of my fading is near, and the blast that shall scatter my leaves. To-morrow shall the traveller come, he that saw me in my beauty shall come ; his eyes will search the field, but they will not find me ! So shall they search in vain for the voice of Cona, after it has failed in the field.
Page 89 - Burke, sir, is such a man, that if you met him for the first time in the street where you were stopped by a drove of oxen, and you and he stepped aside to take shelter but for five minutes, he'd talk to you in such a manner, that, when you parted, you would say, this is an extraordinary man.
Page 88 - ... feelings. This is to me a very awful moment; it is no less than parting for ever with those from whom I have received the greatest kindness and favours, and upon the spot where that kindness and those favours were enjoyed. ' Whatever may be the changes of my future life, the deepest impression of your kindness will always remain here' (putting his hand on his breast), 'fixed and unalterable.
Page 176 - Your countryman, Monsieur Sterne, von great, von vary great man, and he carry me vid him to posterity. He gain moche money by his Journey of Sentiment— mais moi — I — make more through de means of dat, than he, by all his ouvrages reunies — Ha, ha...
Page 278 - Miss Farren, the present Countess of Derby, spoke an address, which concluded with the following couplet : — But see, oppress'd with gratitude and tears, To pay her duteous tribute she appears.
Page 336 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Page 106 - I heard such a tremendous noise over my head, that, fearing the theatre was proceeding to fall about it, I ran for my life ; but found, the next morning, that the noise did not arise from the falling of the house, but from the falling of the screen in the fourth act ; so violent and tumultuous were the applause and laughter.
Page 179 - I cried, again attempting to explain, with as much deliberation and precision, and in as good French as I could command, ' Monsieur, est-il possible que vous...
Page 177 - Commandant of the troops of the town sat next to me ; and among other officers and gentlemen at the table, were the President of the Council at Ratisbon, a Russian Count, and several Prussians — in all amounting to about twenty, not one of whom, as it appeared to me, spoke a word of English. I thought I could never please a Frenchman so much as by praising his town: — 'Monsieur...

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