The Life and Times of Frederick Reynolds, Količina 1H. Colburn, 1826 |
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actor Adelphi afterwards amongst amuse arrived astonishment aunt Baronet barrister brother Captain carriage cause commenced Comte de Grasse Countess of Derby cried dinner discovered Doctor Doctor Johnson door dressed Duke of Bedford effect Eloisa England entered exclaimed eyes fashion father following morning Fred FREDERIC REYNOLDS French Garrick gentleman good-humour half hand head heard hero honour hope horse immediately Jack Lady Effingham late laugh length Lord Chatham Lord Effingham Lord Grandison Lord Talbot Lordship Marie Antoinette ment Monsieur mother never night North Briton Olivia opinion party person present proceeded received recollect replied Reynolds Rhyno Richard Richard Reynolds rushed Sayre scarcely scene sent servant shew soon Southbarrow success suddenly surprise table d'hôte theatre theatrical tion told took town tragedy turned walked Werter Westminster Westminster School whole Wilkes Wroughton young
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Stran 100 - 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.
Stran 83 - 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.
Stran 36 - Manille went, and with it, the remnants of her temper. Her face was of an universal crimson, and tears of rage seemed ready to start into her eyes. At that very moment, as Satan would have it, her opponent, a dowager, whose hoary head and eyebrows were as white as those of an Albiness, triumphantly and briskly demanded payment for the two black aces. " Two black aces ! " answered the enraged loser, in a voice, rendered almost unintelligible by passion ; " Here, take the money, though, instead, I...
Stran 82 - ... 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.
Stran 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.
Stran 171 - 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 :
Stran 75 - On this the Lord Chancellor discovered himself, and told them if they would frankly confess why they were induced to suppose him so enormous a flat he would probably forget their present misdemeanor.
Stran 4 - It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.
Stran 81 - The jingle of rhyme, and the language of fiction, would but ill suit my present 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.
Stran 173 - This was the coup de grace to all decorum ; every Frenchman abandoned himself to his laughter, till the room fairly shook with their shouts ; and even the...