Life in New York, in Doors and Out of DoorsBunce & Brother, 1853 - 90 pages |
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Page 4 - Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving: and show ourselves glad in him with psalms. For the LORD is a great God: and a great King above all gods. In his hand are all the corners of the earth: and the strength of the hills is his also.
Page 5 - God; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee, the Father everlasting. To thee, all Angels cry aloud; the Heavens, and all the Powers therein. To thee, Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Sabaoth; Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy Glory.
Page 7 - Wood, who declared her voice to be the finest contralto she had ever heard, and advised her to cultivate it for the stage.
Page 8 - Theatre, with whose personal appearance she was not even acquainted. She took the note, requesting the loan of a dress for Lady Macbeth, herself. She was tall, and at that time very slender ; of course, therefore, she imagined that the lady whose dress she was to wear was of a figure similar to her own. Her consternation and dismay may be imagined, therefore, when...
Page 7 - Her good, but bigoted kinsfolk held up their hands, shook their heads, foretold evil ; but she had taken her resolve, and was not one of those who can be turned back by shadows. Mrs. Wood...
Page 8 - We wish we could do more ; — and now 5iray oe quiet — don't distress us with your writhings and agonies — resign yourselves to the will of Providence, and bear hunger and cold in peace and seclusion ; — above all attempt no violence, or we must use violence to keep you quiet...
Page 7 - The channe ot climate from ti.e north to the south, the severity of practice requisite, and the unwise attempt to overstrain her voice from a pure contralto to an available soprano, certainly destroyed it. No situation can be conceived more distressing, or more calculated to drive to utter despair.
Page 7 - AVhat, indeed, was to be done ? With a noble resolution not to sink, she took heart, although she knew not then upon what plank she was to be saved. She had one true friend, however, in the tragedian of the...
Page 7 - ... has so remarkably distinguished herself Any one but she must have Been daunted by the outward circumstances that surrounded her ; but the strength of real greatness was in her, and few indeed are the...