An Apology for the Life of George Anne Bellamy, Late of Covent Garden Theatre (Volume 4) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1786. Excerpt: ... Have I not reafon think you, to complain once more of the unkind attacks of fortune? Was it poffible to fuppofe that fuch untoward circumftances would have ftepped between me and my hopes, fo well-founded as they were? Yet, why Jhould I expect viability in that wheel which from my earlieft years, as you have feen, has been fubject to fudden and unexpected revolutions? So often have occafions prefented themfelves for making this remark, that I really fear they begin to appear tirefome repetitions.--May not however thefe disappointments have been intended by the all-wife Difpofer of events, to promote my real good --That great moralift Shakfpere, fpeaking of the blindnefs of mortals in their wifhes, tells us, that "We, ignorant of ourfelves, "Beg often our own harms; which the wife powers "Deny us for our good: fo find we profit "By lofing of our prayers." Let me then indulge the thought; and endeavour to difpel the gloom which, when viewed in an-' other light, they caft over the mind. When Lord Tyrawley was taken ill, led by that refpecl and affe&ion which I had always entertained for his Lordfhip, I went to pay my duty to him. Upon my entrance, I had the mortifi Antony and Cleopatra, Aft II. Scene I. eation to be repulfed by a domeftic, who told me that Mifs O'Hara knew my fenfibility to be too great to bear the fight of fo confpicuous a cha racter, when degenerated into idiotifm; and the converfation I had with her during the mafquerade in " Man and Wife," the laft time fhe faw me on the ftage, had convinced her that I could not poffibly have any paflion but contempt for her. She therefore would not give me the trouble of an interview with a perfon to whom I had Ihewn fo many marks of diflike. I found all my paffions awakened by this irifulting mefTage...