 | Arthur Murphy - 1801 - 434 trang
...every elegant accomplishment. Her understanding was superior to the generality of her sex. Forgive her one female error, and it might fairly be said of her,...distinguishing qualities. Her conversation was in a stile of elegance, always pleasing, and often instructive. She abounded in wit> but not of that wild... | |
 | Arthur Murphy - 1801 - 544 trang
...the generality of her fex. Forgive her one female error, and it might fairly be faid of her, that me was adorned with every virtue: honour,, truth, benevolence, and charity, were her diftinguifhing qualities. Her converfation was in a ftile of elegance, always pleafing, and often inftru&ive.... | |
 | 1868 - 602 trang
...returned the compliment by being very fond of her company. ' Forgive her one female error,' says Murphy, ' and it might fairly be said of her that she was adorned with every virtue,' — a truly modest plea, when it is considered that Peg was not more chaste, and certainly not less... | |
 | 1868 - 600 trang
...returned the compliment by being very fond of her company. ' Forgive her one female error,' says Murphy, ' and it might fairly be said of her that she was adorned with every virtue,' — a truly modest plea, when it is considered that Peg was not more chaste, and certainly not less... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1868 - 890 trang
...thing. The charity so well painted in Mr. Keade's excellent romance and drama is scarcely overdrawn. Her conversation was in a style always pleasing and often instructive. She abounded in wit but there was present also an incurable unsteadiness and a fatal taste for the pleasures of the hour,... | |
 | 1868 - 846 trang
...returned the compliment by being very fond of her company. ' Forgive her one female error,' says Murphy, ' and it might fairly be said of her that she was adorned with every virtue,' — a truly modest plea, when it is considered that Peg was not more chaste, and certainly not less... | |
 | 1868 - 624 trang
...returned the comDliment by being very fond of her company. 'Forgive her one female error,' says Murphy, 'and it might fairly be said of her that she was adorned with every virtue,' —a truly modest plea, when it is considered that Peg was not more chaste, and certainly not less... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 trang
...returned the compliment by being very fond of her company. " Forgive her one female error," says Murphy, "and it might fairly be said of her that she was adorned with every virtue." But when Garrick first fell under her fascination, these frailties had not been developed. She was... | |
 | Theodore Martin - 1874 - 360 trang
...returned the compliment by being very fond of her company. " Forgive her one female error," says Murphy, " and it might fairly be said of her that she was adorned with every virtue," — a truly modest plea, when it is considered that Peg was not more chaste, and certainly not less... | |
 | Henry Barton Baker - 1878 - 434 trang
...First let us take a glance at charming Peggy. " Forgive her one female error," says a biographer, " and it might fairly be said of her that she was adorned with every virtue ; honour, truth, benevolence, charity were her distinguishing qualities." Such might have been written of many another actress upon... | |
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Forgive her one female error, and it might fairly be said of her, that she was adorned with every virtue : honour, truth, benevolence, and charity, were her distinguishing qualities. 
