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twg_000000048800 | sent for the three physicians, who remained with him, and were to the last unremitting in their attentions. The disease continued to make rapid progress, in spite of all that the first medical skill could do to baffle it, watching every turn it took, and applying, on the instant, every remedy likely to subdue its virulence, and mitigate his sufferings. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048801 | On the following Sunday, August , bulletins were issued, stating that Mr. Canning was in most imminent danger. The most painful interest was excited in the public mind by subsequent announcements of his alarming state, and on Wednesday morning, the following melancholy intelligence reached town:-- _Chiswick, Wednesday, August_, , , (A. M.) Mr. Canning expired this morning, without pain, at | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048802 | ten minutes before four o'clock. * * * * * MISCELLANIES. * * * * * BLACK BEARD. There are few persons who reside on the Atlantic ocean and rivers of North America who are not familiar with the name of Black Beard, whom traditionary history represents as a pirate, who acquired immense wealth in his predatory voyages, and was | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048803 | accustomed to bury his treasures in the banks of creeks and rivers. For a period as low down as the American revolution, it was common for the ignorant and credulous to dig along these banks in search of hidden treasures; and impostors found an ample basis in these current rumours for schemes of delusion. Black Beard, though tradition says a | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048804 | great deal more of him than is true, was yet a real person, who acquired no small fame by his maritime exploits during the first part of the eighteenth century. Among many authentic and recorded particulars concerning him, the following account of his death may gratify curiosity:-- From the nature of Black Beard's position in a sloop of little draught | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048805 | of water, on a coast abounding with creeks, and remarkable for the number and intricacy of its shoals, with which he had made himself intimately acquainted, it was deemed impossible to approach him in vessels of any force. Two hired sloops were therefore manned from the Pearl and Lime frigates, in the Chesapeake, and put under the command of Lieutenant | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048806 | Maynard, with instructions to hunt down and destroy this pirate wherever he should be found. On the 17th of November, in the year , this force sailed from James River, and in the evening of the 21st came to an inlet in North Carolina, where Black Beard was discovered at a distance, lying in wait for his prey. The sudden | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048807 | appearance of an enemy, preparing to attack him, occasioned some surprise; but his sloop mounting several guns, and being manned with twenty-five of his desperate followers, he determined to make a resolute defence; and, having prepared his vessel over night for action, sat down to his bottle, stimulating his spirits to that pitch of frenzy by which only he could | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048808 | rescue himself in a contest for his life. The navigation of the inlet was so difficult, that Maynard's sloops were repeatedly grounded in their approach, and the pirate, with his experience of the soundings, possessed considerable advantage in manoeuvring, which enabled him for some time to maintain a running fight. His vessel, however, in her turn, having at length grounded, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048809 | and the close engagement becoming now inevitable, he reserved her guns to pour in a destructive fire on the sloops as they advanced to board him. This he so successfully executed, that twenty-nine men of Maynard's small number were either killed or wounded by the first broadside, and one of the sloops for a time disabled. But notwithstanding this severe | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048810 | loss, the lieutenant persevered in his resolution to grapple with his enemy, or perish in the attempt. Observing that his own sloop, which was still fit for action, drew more water than the pirate's, he ordered all her ballast to be thrown out, and, directing his men to conceal themselves between decks, took the helm in person, and steered directly | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048811 | aboard of his antagonist, who continued inextricably fixed on the shoal. This desperate wretch, previously aware of his danger, and determined never to expiate his crimes in the hands of justice, had posted one of his banditti, with a lighted match, over his powder-magazine, to blow up his vessel in the last extremity. Luckily in this design he was disappointed | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048812 | by his own ardour and want of circumspection; for, as Maynard approached, having begun the encounter at close quarters, by throwing upon his antagonist a number of hand-grenadoes of his own composition, which produced only a thick smoke, and conceiving that, from their destructive agency, the sloop's deck had, been completely cleared, he leaped over her bows, followed by twelve | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048813 | of his men, and advanced upon the lieutenant, who was the only person then in view; but the men instantly springing up to the relief of their commander, who was now furiously beset, and in imminent danger of his life, a violent contest ensued. Black Beard, after seeing the greater part of his men destroyed at his side, and receiving | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048814 | himself repeated wounds, at length, stepping back to cock, a pistol, fainted with the loss of blood, and expired on the spot. Maynard completed his victory, by securing the remainder of these desperate wretches, who were compelled to sue for mercy, and a short respite from a less honourable death at the hands of the executioner. ISLANDS PRODUCED BY INSECTS. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048815 | The whole group of the _Thousand Islands_, and indeed the greater part of all those whose surfaces are flat, in the neighbourhood of the equator, owe their origin to the labours of that order of marine worms which Linnaeus has arranged under the name of _Zoophyta_. These little animals, in a most surprising manner, construct their calcareous habitations, under an | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048816 | infinite variety of forms, yet with that order and regularity, each after its own manner, which to the minute inquirer, is so discernable in every part of the creation. But, although the eye may be convinced of the fact, it is difficult for the human mind to conceive the possibility of insects so small being endued with the power, much | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048817 | less of being furnished in their own bodies with the materials of constructing the immense fabrics which, in almost every part of the Eastern and Pacific Oceans lying between the tropics, are met with in the shape of detached rocks, or reefs of great extent, just even with the surface, or islands already clothed with plants, whose bases are fixed | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048818 | at the bottom of the sea, several hundred feet in depth, where light and heat, so very essential to animal life, if not excluded, are sparingly received and feebly felt. Thousands of such rocks, and reefs, and islands, are known to exist in the eastern ocean, within, and even beyond, the limits of the tropics. The eastern coast of New | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048819 | Holland is almost wholly girt with reefs and islands of coral rock, rising perpendicularly from the bottom of the abyss. Captain Kent, of the Buffalo, speaking of a coral reef of many miles in extent, on the south-west coast of New Caledonia, observes, that "it is level with the water's edge, and towards the sea, as steep to as a | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048820 | wall of a house; that he sounded frequently within twice the ship's length of it with a line of one hundred and fifty fathoms, or nine hundred feet, without being able to reach the bottom." How wonderful, how inconceivable, that such stupendous fabrics should rise into existence from the silent but incessant, and almost imperceptible, labours of such insignificant worms! | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048821 | To buy books, as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.--_Pope_. * * * * * TO MY BROTHER, ON HIS LEAVING ENGLAND. By The Author of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048822 | "Ahab." (_For the Mirror._) Wherever your fortune may lead you to roam, Forget not, young exile, the land of your home; Let it ever be present to memory's eye, 'Tis the place where the bones of your fore-father's lie. Let the thought of it ever your comforter be, For no spot on this earth like your home can you see. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048823 | The fields where you rove may be more fresh and fair, More splendid the sun, and more fragrant the air, More lovely the flowers, more refreshing the breeze, More tranquil the waters, more fruitful the trees. But home after all things--that dear little spot, Tho' it be but a desert can ne'er be forgot. In the thoughts of the day, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048824 | and the dreams of the night, On your eyes like the kiss of your mother 'twill light, Then the mist will disperse which long absence has spread. And the paths you have trodden again you shall tread. Then farewell, young exile, wherever you roam, Oh! dear as your honour, your life, be your home. J.H.S. * * * * * | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048825 | RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS. * * * * * ORDERS FOR HOUSEHOLD SERVANTS IN . _Orders for Household Servantes; first deuised by John Haryngton, in the yeare , and renewed by John Haryngton, sonne of the saide John, in the yeare : The saide John, the sonne, being then high shrieve of the county of Somerset._ Imprimis, That no servant bee absent | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048826 | from praier, at morning or euening, without a lawfull excuse, to be alleged within one day after, vppon paine to forfeit for eury tyme 2d. II. Item, That none swear any othe, vppon paine for every othe 1d. III. Item, That no man leaue any doore open that he findeth shut, without theare bee cause, vppon paine for euery time | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048827 | 1d. IV. Item, That none of the men be in bed, from our Lady-day to Michaelmas, after of the clock in the morning; nor out of his bed after of the clock at night; nor, from Michaemas till our Lady-day, in bed after in the morning, nor out after at night, without reasonable cause, on paine of 2d. V. That | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048828 | no man's bed bee vnmade, nor fire or candle-box vnclean, after of the clock in the morning, on paine of 1d. VI. Item, That no one commit any nuisance within either of the courts, vppon paine of 1d. VII. Item, That no man teach any of the children any vnhonest speeche, or evil word, or othe, on paine of 4d. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048829 | VIII. Item, That no man waite at the table without a trencher in his hand, except it be vppon some good cause, on paine of Id. IX. Item, That no man appointed to waite at my table be absent that meale, without reasonable cause, on paine of 1d. X. Item, If any man breake a glasse, hee shall aunswer the | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048830 | price thereof out of his wages; and, if it bee not known who breake it, the buttler shall pay for it on paine of 12d. XI. Item, The table must bee couered halfe an houer before at dinner, and at supper, or before, on paine of 2d. XII. Item, That meate bee readie at , or before, at dinner; and | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048831 | , or before, at supper, on paine of 6d. XIII. Item, That none be absent, without leaue or good cause, the whole day, or any part of it, on paine of 4d. XIV. Item, That no man strike his fellow, on paine of loss of seruice; nor reuile or threaten, or prouoke another to strike, on paine of 12d. XV. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048832 | Item, That no man come to the kitchen without reasonable cause, on paine of 1d. and the cook likewyse to forfeit 1d. XVI. Item, That none toy with the maids, on paine of 4d. XVII. That no man weare foule shirt on Sunday, nor broken hose or shooes, or dublett without buttons, on paine of 1d. XVIII. Item, That, when | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048833 | any strainger goeth hence, the chamber be drest vp againe within howrs after, on paine of 1d. XIX. Item, That the hall bee made cleane euery day, by eight in the winter, and seauen in the sommer, on paine of him that should do it to forfeit 1d. XX. That the cowrt-gate bee shutt each meale, and not opened during | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048834 | dinner and supper, without just cause, on paine the porter to forfet for euery time, 1d. XXI. Item, That all stayrs in the house, and other rooms that neede shall require, bee made cleane on Fryday after dinner, on paine of forfeyture of euery on whome it shall belong vnto, 3d. All which sommes shall be duly paide each quarter-day | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048835 | out of their wages, and bestowed on the poore, or other godly vse. * * * * * THE NOVELIST. No. CVII. * * * * * THE WOOD KING. _By Miss Emma Roberts_. Already the pile of heaped-up fagots reached above the low roof of his hut; but Carl Scheffler still continued lopping off branches, and binding fresh bundles | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048836 | together, almost unconscious that the sun had set, and that the labours of the day being over, the neighbouring peasants were hastening to the skittle-ground to pass away an hour in sport. The wood-cutter's hut was perched upon an eminence a little out of the public path; but he heard the merry songs of his comrades as they proceeded gaily | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048837 | to the place of rendezvous, at the Golden Stag in the village below. Many of his intimate acquaintance paused as they approached the corner of the road nearest to his hut, and the wild wood rang with their loud halloes; but the call, which in other times had been echoed by the woodman's glad voice, was now unanswered; he busied | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048838 | himself with his work; his brow darkened as the joyous sounds came over his ear; he threw aside his hatchet, resumed, it again, and again casting it from him, exclaimed, "Why, let them go, I will not carry this chafed and wounded spirit to their revels; my hand is not steady enough for a bowling-match; and since Linda will doubtless | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048839 | choose a richer partner, I have no heart for the dance." It was easy to perceive that Carl Scheffler was smarting under a recent disappointment: he had borne up bravely against the misfortunes which, from a state of comparative affluence, had reduced him to depend upon his own arm for subsistence, fondly trusting that ere long his prospects would amend; | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048840 | and that, at the return of the Count of Holberg to his ancestorial dominions, he should obtain a forester's place, and be enabled to claim the hand of Linda Von Kleist, to whom, in happier times, he had been betrothed. But these dreams had vanished; the count's bailiff having seen Linda, the flower of the hamlet, became his rival, and | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048841 | consequently his enemy: he had bestowed the office promised to Carl upon another; and Linda's father ungratefully withdrawing the consent given when the lover's affairs were in a more flourishing condition, had forbidden him the house. Buoyed up with the hope that Linda would remain faithful, and by her unabated attachment console him under the pressure of his calamities, Carl | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048842 | did not at first give way to despair; but Linda was too obedient, or perchance too indifferent, to disobey her father's commands. He sought her at the accustomed spot--she came not, sent not: he hovered round her residence, and if chance favoured him with a glimpse of his beloved, it was only to add to his misery, for she withdrew | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048843 | hastily from his sight. A rumour of the intended marriage of his perjured mistress reached his ears, and, struck to the soul, he endeavoured, by manual labour, to exhaust his strength and banish the recollection of his misery. He toiled all day in feverish desperation; and now that there was no more to be done, sat down to ponder over | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048844 | his altered prospects. The bailiff possessed the ear of his master, and it was useless to hope that the count would repair the injustice committed by so trusted a servant. The situation which above all others he had coveted, which would have given him the free range of the forest, the jovial hunter's life which suited his daring spirit, delighting | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048845 | in the perils of the chase, and, above all, a home for Linda, was lost, and for ever; henceforward he must relinquish all expectation of regaining the station which the misfortunes that had brought his parents to the grave had deprived him of, and be content to earn a sordid meal by bending his back to burthens befitting the brute | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048846 | creation alone; to hew wood, and to bear it to the neighbouring towns; to delve the ground at the bidding of a master, and to perform the offices of a menial hireling. "At least not here," cried the wretched young man, "not in the face of all my former friends; there is a refuge left where I may hide my | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048847 | sorrows and my wrongs. Fair earth, and thou fair sky, I gaze upon you for the last time; buried from the face of day in the centre of the deepest mine, I'll spend the remnant of my life unpitied and unknown." Determined to execute this resolution on the instant, Carl hastily collected such parts of his slender property as were | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048848 | portable; and having completed his arrangements, prepared to cross the Brocken, and shaped his course towards the Rammelsburg. The last rich gleam of crimson had faded from the sky; but there was light enough in the summer night to guide him on his way. A few bright and beautiful stars gemmed the wide concave of heaven; the air was soft | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048849 | and balmy, scarcely agitating the leaves of the forest trees; the fragrance-weeping limes gave out their richest scent, and the gentle gush of fountains, and the tricklings of the mountain springs, came in music on the ear; and had the traveller been more at ease, the calm and tranquil scene must have diffused its soothing influence over his heart. Carl, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048850 | disregarding every thing save his own melancholy destiny, strode along almost choked by bitter thought, and so little heedful of the road, that he soon became involved in thickets whose paths were unknown to him; he looked up to the heavens, and shaping his course by one of the stars, was somewhat surprised to find himself still involved in the | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048851 | impenetrable mazes of the wood. Compelled to give more attention than heretofore to his route, he once or twice thought that he distinguished a human figure moving through the darkness of the forest. At first, not disposed to fall in with a companion, he remained silent, lest the person, whoever he might be, should choose to enter into conversation with | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048852 | him; then not quite certain whether he was right in his conjecture--for upon casting a second glance upon the object which attracted him, he more than once discovered it to be some stunted trunk or fantastic tree--he became anxious to ascertain whether he was in reality, alone, or if some other midnight wanderer trod the waste, and he looked narrowly | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048853 | around; all was still, silent, and solitary; and fancying that he had been deceived by the flitting shadows of the night, he was again relapsing into his former reverie, when he became aware of the presence of a man dressed in the garb of a forester, and having his cap wreathed with a garland of green leaves, who stood close | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048854 | at his side. Carl's tongue moved to utter a salutation, but the words stuck in his throat, an indescribable sensation of horror thrilled through his frame; tales of the demons of the Hartz rushed upon his memory--but he recovered instantly from the sudden shock. The desperate state of his fortune gave him courage, and, looking up, he was surprised at | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048855 | the consternation which the stranger had occasioned: he was a person of ordinary appearance, who, accosting him frankly, exclaimed, "Ho, comrade, thou art, I see, bent on the same errand as myself; but wherefore dost thou seek the treasures of the Nibelungen without the protecting wreath?"--"The treasures of the Nibelungen?" returned Carl; "I have indeed heard of such a thing, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048856 | and that it was hidden in the bosom of the Hartz by a princess of the olden time; but I never was mad enough to think of so wild a chase as a search after riches, which has baffled the wisest of our ancestors, must surely prove."--"Belike then," replied the forester, "thou art well to do in the world, and | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048857 | therefore needest not to replenish thy wallets with gold,--travelling perchance to take possession of some rich inheritance."--"No, by St. Roelas," cried the woodcutter, "thou hast guessed wide of the mark. I am going to hide my poverty in the mine of Rammelsburg."--"The mine of Rammelsburg!" echoed the stranger, and laughed scornfully, so that the deep woods rang with the sound; | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048858 | and Carl feeling his old sensations return as the fiendish merriment resounded through the wilderness, again gazed stedfastly in his companion's face, but he read nothing there to justify his suspicions: the fiery eye lost its lustre; the lip its curl; and, gazing benignantly upon the forlorn wood-cutter, he continued his speech, saying, "Then prithee take the advice of one | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048859 | who knows these forests, and all that they contain. Here are materials in abundance for our garland; advance forward, and fear not the issue;"--and, gathering leaves from the boughs of trees of a species unknown to his new acquaintance, he twined them into a wreath, and placed the sylvan diadem on Carl's head. The instant that he felt the light | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048860 | pressure on his temples, all his fears vanished; and he followed his guide, conversing pleasantly through wide avenues and over broad glades of fresh turf, which seemed to be laid out like a royal chase, till they came to a wall of rock resembling the Hahnen Klippers, and entering through an arch, a grey moss-covered tower arose in the distance. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048861 | The ponderous doors were wide open; and Carl advancing, found himself in a large hall well lighted, and showing abundance of treasure scattered abroad in all directions. He was conscious that he had lost his companion, but he seemed no longer to require his instruction; and casting down his own worthless burthen, he laded himself with the riches that courted | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048862 | his touch. The adventurer was soon supplied with a sufficient quantity of gold and jewels to satisfy his most unbounded wishes; and turning from the spot with a light heart, he sped merrily along. The country round about seemed strange to him; but on repassing the rocky ledge, a brisk wind suddenly springing up blew off his cap. The morning | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048863 | air was cold, and Carl, hastening to regain his head-gear, discovered that the wreath had disappeared; and, as if awakening from a dream, he found himself surrounded by familiar objects; he felt, however, the weight of the load upon his back, and though panting with the fatigue it occasioned, made the best of his way home. On approaching the hut, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048864 | a low murmur struck on his ear. He paused; listened attentively; and distinguishing a female voice, he rushed forward, and in the next moment clasped Linda in his arms. She had fled from the persecutions of the bailiff to seek shelter in Carl's straw-roofed hut; and the now happy lovers, as they surveyed the treasures which had been snatched from | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048865 | the Nibelungen, agreed that they owed their good fortune to Riebezhahl the Wood King, who sometimes taking pity upon the frail and feeble denizens of earth, pointed out to their wondering eyes the inexhaustible riches of which he was the acknowledged guardian. _London Weekly Review_. * * * * * SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. * * * * * | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048866 | DRAFTS ON LA FITTE. COOKE. Only upon one occasion did Cooke deviate from his resolution of not apologizing to a provincial assembly, and that was at Liverpool. A previous breach of decorum was visited one night by the fury of an offended audience; confusion was at its height; the people were the actors, and Cooke the audience: yet the sturdy | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048867 | tragedian remained callous to the bursts of indignation which were heard around him, until destruction became the order of the day; lamps _lighted_ on the stage; benches betokened _mobility_; _pedal_ applications were made _fort_ to the _piano_; _basely violated_ was the repository of the _base viol_; and the property of poor Knight the manager gave every sign of that being | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048868 | its last appearance. What popular rage had failed to produce, consideration for the fortunes of his friend effected. At his entreaties, the Caledonian was induced to advance to the front of the stage (never was there a more _moving_ scene than that before it); silence was obtained, and he condescended to express his sorrow for the state in which some | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048869 | nights previously he had presented himself: adding, "that _he_ never _before_ felt so keenly the _degradation_ of _his_ situation." Equivocal as was the mode of extenuation, the audience allied to _Mersey_ accorded the _mercy_ it possessed, and was or appeared to be, satisfied; but not so the actor, and he as fully as instantly avenged what he deemed his misplaced | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048870 | submission. As he concluded his address, he turned to the gratified but yet trembling manager, and (in allusion to the large share in the slave-trade then imputed to Liverpool) with that peculiarity of undertone he possessed, which could be distinctly heard throughout the largest theatre although pronounced as a whisper, exclaimed, "There's not a stone in the walls of Liverpool | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048871 | which has not been cemented by the _bluid_ of Africans." Then, casting one of his Shylock glances of hatred and contempt on the mute and astounded audience, majestically left the stage. On the first night of his performance at the Boston theatre, Richard was the part he had adopted; and so strongly had he fortified himself for the kingly task, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048872 | that he deemed himself the very monarch he was destined to enact. The theatre was crowded in every part: expectation was on tiptoe: anticipation as to his person, voice, and manner, was announced by the sibilating "I guess" heard around, and "pretty considerable" agitation prevailed. The orchestra had begun and ceased, unheeded or unheard; nor could one of Sir Thomas | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048873 | Lethbridge's best cut and dried have produced less effect amongst the "irreclaimables." The curtain rose, and amidst thundering plaudits the welcome stranger advanced, in angles, to the front of the stage, and, as Sir Pertinax has it, "booed and booed and booed;" but greeting could not endure for ever: well justified curiosity assumed its station, and at length silence, almost | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048874 | breathless silence, reigned around, such as attended Irving in his Zoar, or Canning when he lately produced his budget. The hospitable clamour was over; but instead of "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York" being given, Cooke, in a respectful but decided tone, requested that "God save the King" might be played | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048875 | by the orchestra prior to the commencement of the play. The proposal at first but excited mockery and laughter, which, however, gave way to far different feelings, on Cooke firmly and composedly declaring, that, until his request was complied with, he was determined not to proceed; and, should it be absolutely refused, he was resolved to retire. The fury of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048876 | the Bostonians was at its height: menace, accompanied by every vituperative epithet rage could suggest, was lavished on the actor; but he kept his station, calm and secure as his own native island set in the stormy seas, until anger gradually subsided through very weariness; and every effort having been ineffectually used to wean "_the tyrant_" from his purpose, the | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048877 | political antipathies of the audience began to yield to their theatrical taste; and, after much argument and delay, the unpalatable demand was reluctantly assented to. Cooke, however, whose nature it was, when opposed, only to become more exigent, was not himself appeased; for, as the notes "unpleasing to a _Yankee_ ear" were sounded, with a majestic wave of his hand | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048878 | he silenced the unwilling music, and, "Standing, if you please," was as dictatorially as fearlessly pronounced, to the consternation of the audience. So much had, however, already been accorded, that it was not deemed matter of much moment to concede the rest: and however ungracefully the attitude of respect was assumed, the national hymn was performed amidst grimace and muttering; | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048879 | Cooke beating time with his foot,--nodding significantly and satisfactorily at "Confound their politics;" and occasionally taking a pinch of snuff, as, in his royal robes, he triumphantly contemplated the astonished and indignant audience. It ended:--"Richard was himself again," and "_Now_ is the winter of our _discontent_ made glorious summer" was given with equal emphasis, feeling, and effect. At the time | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048880 | that _greater_ performer, the elephant, made his appearance on the boards, his own _board_ became a subject of no trifling consideration with the managers, particularly as the African had taken a predilection for _rum_, which the new actor used to quaff with extraordinary zest. On one occasion Cooke was missing from a morning rehearsal, and all had been some time | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048881 | in waiting for the tragedian, when the messenger whom Kerable despatched in search of him, returned grinning to the green-room. "Where is Mr. Cooke, sir?" demanded Kemble. "He is below _breakfasting_ with the _elephant_, sir!" was the reply. It was too much for Cooke, after having so frequently disappointed full houses, to be obliged to play to an empty theatre. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048882 | It was like playing whist with _dummy_. However, towards the close of the O. P. war, (which, by the way, excited more the attention of the Parisians than the national contest in which we were engaged,) the public had adopted the plan of never commencing operations until half-price, to the injury of the manager's purse. It was during the earlier | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048883 | acts of "The Man of the World," that Cooke, in performing to "a beggarly account of empty boxes," was addressed by one of the actors, in accordance with the scene, in a whisper; when the _elevated_ comedian, casting a glance around, bitterly observed, "Speak out: there need be no secret. _No one hears us._" Poor Cooke could not plead in | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048884 | excuse what an actor did on being hissed for too _sober_ a representation of a _drunken_ part, "Ladies and gentlemen, I beg your pardon: but it is really the _first time_ I ever was _intoxicated_." His death was in singular accordance with his _taste_ through life. He sought the banks of the _Brandywine_, and whether it were that the composition | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048885 | of its stream so little responded to its title as to prey upon his _spirits_, or from some other cause, there he "_drank_ his last." DICKEY SUETT. I met with him once in a house situated on the very confines of _Beef and Law_; on the line of demarcation between the theatres and Lincoln's Inn; a sort of _debateable_ ground | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048886 | between the spouters and ranters of the stage, and the eaters of commons, by either of which party it was frequented. Around a large table in the parlour sat a motley group. There were ragged wits, well-dressed students, new-fledged actors, a hackney writer or so, an Irish barrister named Shuter, a Scotch reporter, and a hodge-podge of most discordant materials | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048887 | congregated under the amalgamating power of Suett, who seemed, by the incongruity of his dress and diversified manner, to have studied the various tastes of those he swayed, and to be the comprehensive representative of each of the strange beings he looked upon, with all of whom he would occasionally identify himself with so much ease, that it were hard | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048888 | to say whether it was the result of labour or of tact, of calculation, or the mere impulse of mother-wit. The _ropes of his face_, when drawn _taught_, peculiarly commanded the attention of the Caledonian, while the sly and humorous glance of his half-shut eye was acknowledged by the Hibernian to whom it was addressed; the _snow drift_ of powder | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048889 | which lay in patches on his long, straight hair, agreed with the taste of his dramatic nursling; the far-extended cambric of white frill imposed upon the students, while the unseemly rents in his coat at once compensated to the wits for what there might be of gaudy or gay in his outward man. We were received with equal courtesy and | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048890 | ceremony by the president; and were just seated, when a ballet-dancer of Drury-lane entered. As he was a Frenchman, it became a question of _national_ politeness: and Dicky _chestered_ him to his dexter! and, as was befitting, condescended to address him. "I am proud, sir," said Suett, with the formality of _Black Rod_ himself, "to do the honours of my | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048891 | _country_ to the _representative_ of a nation which held my _master_ Garrick in peculiar respect. He was a great actor, sir; a wonderful man! Your Lekain, or any other _Cain_, could not come up to him, for he was _Able_, Pardon the pun. Oh, la!--but he was vain, sir; vain as a peacock; it could not be of his person. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048892 | Had he been, as Richard has it, _'a marvellous proper man'_ like myself, one might have said something. He used to say, I was too _lean_ for _Suett_. Oh, dear. _A votre sant, Monsieur,_ happy to see you on this side the Channel. Never been to France yet, although in the _Straits_ great part of my life, and not unfrequently | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048893 | _half seas over_.--Well, sir, to return to Garrick. There was that man 'frae the north,' who wrote the History of England and Roderick Random,--the latter a true story, they say;--he who challenged Campbell the barrister, for calling him _names_, _To bias_ the cause. Well, sir, Davy refused one of his farces; but the wily Caledonian _pocketed_ the affront, in coolly | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048894 | observing, 'that he had nearly completed another volume of his history, and hoped he might be permitted to name _the British Roscius_, the pride of his country, and all that sort of thing.' It was a palpable hit, sir--the thing was settled--the _manager managed_; and _Smelfungus_ retired, _without_ his manuscript, half sorry he had not added _another_ scene to his | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048895 | farce. Well, sir, the story got wind, and some days after Davy dined with a lawyer who had interested himself vainly for a friend's comedy with him, when, in the course of conversation, the barrister observed to Davy, before a large company, that he had nearly compiled another volume of The Statutes _at large_ (would they were all _at large_), | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048896 | and hoped he might be permitted to name _the British Roscius, the pride of his country._ There was a roar at the expense of Garrick. 'The galled jade' winced terribly:--he was touchy as tinder, sir:--never was _Digest_ so ill-_digested_.'" It was when the meteor-like popularity of little Betty was at its height that poor Suett fell ill, at what he | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048897 | termed his _town_ residence (a second-floor in a low street), and the pigmy Roscius, having eaten too much fruit, kept all London in intense agony for his fate at the same moment. Bulletins were exhibited in Southampton-row several times a-day, signed by numerous physicians. Had he died, how posterity would have been befooled! Suett was then _actually_ dying, yet would | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048898 | he have his joke, and his last moments were cheered by the horse-laugh of the rabble assembled to _spell_ the bulletin suspended to "the second-floor bell," attested by the _mark_ of the old woman who attended him. "You shall be buried in Saint Paul's," said a friend. "Oh, la!" was the dying ejaculation of the comedian. _New Monthly Magazine._ * | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000048899 | * * * * THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF NEW WORKS. * * * * * AMERICAN TRAVELLING. June 7th, at three in the morning, the steam-boat (which was of immense size, and on the high pressure system) arrived at Albany, having come one hundred and sixty miles in seventeen hours, including stoppages. I found that, unluckily, the mail-coach | 60 | gutenberg |
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