 | 1802 - 520 pages
...MISS SEWARD. OIDDONS ! when first commenc'd thy ardent course, The Powers that guard the Drama's awful shrine, Beauty, and Grandeur, Tenderness, and Force,...strife, " Behold, dividing still the palm of Fame, 272 THE EARL OF BUCHAN DEPARTING FROM DRYBURGH ABBEY, AND PROCEEDING TO LONDON, NOV. 28, 1801. FAREWELL,... | |
 | Anthologies - 1802 - 524 pages
...SEWARD. OIDDO.VS ! when first commeuc'd thy ardent courje, The Powers that guard the Drama's awful shrine, Beauty, and Grandeur, Tenderness, and Force,...strife, " Behold, dividing still the palm of Fame, THE EARL OF BUCHAN DEPARTING FROM DRYBURGH ABBEY, AND PROCEEDING TO LONDON, NOV. 28, 1801. FAREWELL,... | |
 | Missions - 1837 - 714 pages
...singleness of mind." What was said of her, could have been said, even in poetry, of few actresses : "Behold, dividing still the palm of fame, Her radiant science, and her spotless life."t She had already passed the zenith of her celebrity. Providence had repeatedly and recently... | |
 | English poetry - 1815 - 456 pages
...MISS SEWARD. SIDDONS ! when first commenc'd thy ardent course, The Powers that guard the Drama's awful shrine, Beauty, and Grandeur, Tenderness, and Force,...Fame, " Her radiant Science and her spotless Life /'* LINES WRITTEN BY MRS. OPIE *. COLD are the lips whose gentle force The reed to sweetest strains... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Actresses - 1834 - 358 pages
...SIDDONS! when first commenced thy ardent course, The Powers, that guard the Drama's awful shrineBeauty and grandeur, tenderness and force, Silence that speaks,...fame, Her radiant science, and her spotless life." CHAPTER XVII. She performs in Sheridan's " Pizarro"— rin " Adelaide," a Tragedy by Pye — Lady Jane,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Actresses - 1834 - 280 pages
...ardent course, The Powers, that guard the Drama's awful shrineBeauty and grandeur, tenderness and farce, Silence that speaks, and eloquence divine — For...fame, Her radiant science, and her spotless life." CHAPTER XVII. She performs in Sheridan's " Pizarro" — in " Adelaide," a Tragedy by Pye — Lady Jane,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Actors - 1834 - 414 pages
...SONNET. SIDDONS ! when first commenc'd thy ardent course, The Powers, that guard the Drama's awful shrine — Beauty and grandeur, tenderness and force,...subject passions trembling own Each various sense subdu'd and captive there. Yet the heart says, " Respect a rival claim, A claim that rises in unvanquish'd... | |
 | Samuel Wilton RIX - 1837 - 280 pages
...singleness of mind." What was said of her, could have been said, even in poetry, of few actresses : " Behold, dividing still the palm of fame, Her radiant science, and her spotless life.' * She had already passed the zenith of her celebrity. Providence had repeatedly and recently, called... | |
 | Samuel Wilton Rix - 1837 - 278 pages
...singleness of mind." What was said of her, could have been said, even in poetry, of few actresses : " Behold, dividing still the palm of fame, Her radiant science, and her spotless life."* She had already passed the zenith of her celebrity. Providence had repeatedly and recently, called... | |
 | Florence Mary Wilson Parsons - Actors - 1909 - 372 pages
...(addressed by the Same to the Same) which had ' descended,' she said, that morning, ' from her pen.' " Behold, dividing still the palm of Fame, Her radiant Science, and her spotless Life ! " near writing herself down its goose, that we are apt to undervalue sound and shrewd observations... | |
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SONNET. SIDDONS! when first commenced thy ardent course, The Powers, that guard the Drama's awful shrineBeauty and grandeur, tenderness and force, Silence that speaks, and eloquence divine — For thee erected that approachless throne None may or hope... 