Representative English Dramas from Dryden to SheridanOxford University Press, American Branch, 1914 - 459 pages |
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... woman can shake the faith of the incomparable lover . Nearly all of Act II is argument , and when Lyndaraxa and one of her lovers appear , they do nothing but debate . Lyndaraxa speaks quite truly when she says : " By my own experience ...
... woman can shake the faith of the incomparable lover . Nearly all of Act II is argument , and when Lyndaraxa and one of her lovers appear , they do nothing but debate . Lyndaraxa speaks quite truly when she says : " By my own experience ...
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... woman have with me ? Almah . Alas ! Almanz . ' Tis all in vain ; it will not do : [ Aside . I cannot now a seeming anger show : My tongue against my heart no aid affords ; For love still rises up , and chokes my words . Almah . In half ...
... woman have with me ? Almah . Alas ! Almanz . ' Tis all in vain ; it will not do : [ Aside . I cannot now a seeming anger show : My tongue against my heart no aid affords ; For love still rises up , and chokes my words . Almah . In half ...
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... woman , without modesty as natural and essential to her . " And so " the serpent of old Nile " suffers change to " A silly , harmless , household dove , Fond without art , and kind without deceit . " Of all the clashing elements that ...
... woman , without modesty as natural and essential to her . " And so " the serpent of old Nile " suffers change to " A silly , harmless , household dove , Fond without art , and kind without deceit . " Of all the clashing elements that ...
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... woman , and a lover ? - Here let me breathe my last : envy me not This minute in your arms : I'll die apace , As fast as e'er I can , and end your trouble . Ant . Die ! rather let me perish ; loosened nature Leap from its hinges , sink ...
... woman , and a lover ? - Here let me breathe my last : envy me not This minute in your arms : I'll die apace , As fast as e'er I can , and end your trouble . Ant . Die ! rather let me perish ; loosened nature Leap from its hinges , sink ...
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... woman's frailty , Whose holy bed she lawlessly usurped . The sad effects of this improsperous war Confirmed those pious thoughts . Vent . [ aside ] . Oh , wheel you there ? Observe him now ; the man begins to mend , And talk substantial ...
... woman's frailty , Whose holy bed she lawlessly usurped . The sad effects of this improsperous war Confirmed those pious thoughts . Vent . [ aside ] . Oh , wheel you there ? Observe him now ; the man begins to mend , And talk substantial ...
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