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... stories return to me when treading the stone plat- forms from which they were originally delivered , that my natural love for the stage was greatly enhanced . Perhaps without knowing it I inwardly resolved to be- come an actor , or a ...
... stories return to me when treading the stone plat- forms from which they were originally delivered , that my natural love for the stage was greatly enhanced . Perhaps without knowing it I inwardly resolved to be- come an actor , or a ...
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... stories told by the black- faced comedians ; but what I truly enjoyed was the har- monious chorus - singing of those men . Such antics upon the stage as by many are considered nothing worse than innocent merriment , I am still Quaker ...
... stories told by the black- faced comedians ; but what I truly enjoyed was the har- monious chorus - singing of those men . Such antics upon the stage as by many are considered nothing worse than innocent merriment , I am still Quaker ...
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... story of you which I doubt if you have ever heard " ; and proceeded to tell me that he , too , was in business in Philadelphia when young , and that one morning while he was talking to an elderly Friend , I went by , humming what seemed ...
... story of you which I doubt if you have ever heard " ; and proceeded to tell me that he , too , was in business in Philadelphia when young , and that one morning while he was talking to an elderly Friend , I went by , humming what seemed ...
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... story of an aged cleric , who stood serene , and lifted up his voice among the shrieks of the dying and injured , saying , " My children , I baptized you when you entered this sinful world , I now absolve you as you leave it for ...
... story of an aged cleric , who stood serene , and lifted up his voice among the shrieks of the dying and injured , saying , " My children , I baptized you when you entered this sinful world , I now absolve you as you leave it for ...
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... story of him , told me by the man to whom it hap- pened . He was deep in conversation with Sir Henry when some one was brought up and introduced and the conversation was not resumed . A year later , when Irv- ing , again at the Penn ...
... story of him , told me by the man to whom it hap- pened . He was deep in conversation with Sir Henry when some one was brought up and introduced and the conversation was not resumed . A year later , when Irv- ing , again at the Penn ...
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Page 345 - What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also : I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
Page 364 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Page 126 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Page 131 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Page 230 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 345 - So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.
Page 353 - Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound, Of all that mote delight a dainty ear, Such as at once might not on living ground, Save in this paradise, be heard elsewhere...
Page 47 - I do embrace it; for even that vulgar and tavern music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the first composer.
Page 301 - twill pass for wit; Care not for feeling — pass your proper jest, And stand a critic, hated yet caress'd. And shall we own such judgment? no— as soon Seek roses in December— ice in June; Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; Believe a woman or an epitaph, Or any other thing that's false, before You trust in critics, who themselves are sore Or yield one single thought to be misled By Jeffrey's heart, or Lambe's Boeotian head.