"Woodward" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Reynolds's characters are as faithful copies of nature as Woodward's caricatures of men with heads ten times bigger than their bodies. How could Mr. Surr, in a late well written novel, offer any apology for him? But friendship is as blind as love, in ...
— The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor - Vol. I. No. 3. March 1810 • Various
... prevailed on at last by much solicitation, nay, a kind of force, to bring it on.' Mr. Forster (Life of Goldsmith, ii. 334-6) writes:—'The actors and actresses had taken their tone from the manager. Gentleman Smith threw up Voting Marlow; Woodward refused Tony Lumpkin; Mrs. Abington declined Miss Hardcastle [in The Athenaeum, No. 3041, it is pointed out that Mrs. Abington was not one of Colman's Company]; and, in the teeth of his own misgivings, ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... yet, before, ye must do more, If ye will go with me: As cut your hair up by your ear, Your kirtle by the knee; With bow in hand, for to withstand Your enemies, if need be: And this same night before daylight. To woodward will I flee. If that ye will all this fulfil, Do it shortly as ye can: Else will I to the green-wood ...
— English Songs and Ballads • Various
... very prevalent. Respectable people are not ashamed to bear signed witness of its miraculous powers of detecting springs of water and secret mines. It is habitually used by the miners in the Mendips, as Mr. Woodward found ten years ago; and forked hazel divining rods from the Mendips are a recognised part of ethnological collections. There are two ways of investigating the facts or fancies about the rod. One is to examine it in its actual operation—a task ...
— Custom and Myth • Andrew Lang
... this letter is that I have written a book which has paid its expenses. Is not that jolly? The idea of a second edition quite elates me. So you see, darling, things are rather cheering. I must say, everybody receives me pleasantly. Woodward is going to give me a whole day at Windsor. Beresford-Hope is out of town, but called to-day at Cook's and said 'he was most anxious ...
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton • Philip Gilbert Hamerton et al
... Francis Woodward to Lord Charlemont on 21 July 1778 and 8 April 1779 give brief accounts of the progress of Milles' research. See the Twelfth Report of the Historical MSS Commission, Appendix X: The Manuscripts and Correspondence of James, First Earl of Charlemont (London, ...
— Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley (1782) • Edmond Malone
... it's all right," I returned, astonished, not so much over the fact that Widow Canby had granted the permission, as that such a high-toned young gentleman as Duncan Woodward should ...
— True to Himself • Edward Stratemeyer
... father would give up business," I said to my mother one day, "and take some comfort of his life. Mr. Woodward has retired, and is ...
— All's for the Best • T. S. Arthur |
