The British Drama: Tragedies. 2 vW. Miller, 1804 |
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... mind will be able to see the progressive changes , that have taken place in dramatic com- position , and mark the distinct ¿ra of improvement . Such , then , have been the motives of this publication , and the principles which have ...
... mind will be able to see the progressive changes , that have taken place in dramatic com- position , and mark the distinct ¿ra of improvement . Such , then , have been the motives of this publication , and the principles which have ...
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... mind betrays itself . Mel . Come , delay me not ; Give me a sudden answer , or already Thy last is spoke ! refuse not offered love , When it comes clad in secrets . Cal . If I say I will not , he will kill me ; I do see it Writ in his ...
... mind betrays itself . Mel . Come , delay me not ; Give me a sudden answer , or already Thy last is spoke ! refuse not offered love , When it comes clad in secrets . Cal . If I say I will not , he will kill me ; I do see it Writ in his ...
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... mind ; they had better Let them lie sweet still in the earth ; they'll stink here . Mel . Do you raise mirth out of my easiness ? Forsake me , then , all weaknesses of nature , That make men women ! Speak , harlot , speak truth ! Or ...
... mind ; they had better Let them lie sweet still in the earth ; they'll stink here . Mel . Do you raise mirth out of my easiness ? Forsake me , then , all weaknesses of nature , That make men women ! Speak , harlot , speak truth ! Or ...
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... mind was ever As worthy as his hand . Lys . ' Tis my fear , too . Heaven forgive all ! Summon him , lord Cleon . Cleon . Ho , from the walls there . Mel . Worthy Cleon , welcome . We could have wished you here , lord : You are honest ...
... mind was ever As worthy as his hand . Lys . ' Tis my fear , too . Heaven forgive all ! Summon him , lord Cleon . Cleon . Ho , from the walls there . Mel . Worthy Cleon , welcome . We could have wished you here , lord : You are honest ...
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... mind ; and I have grief enough Without thy help . Asp . I would I could with credit . Since I was twelve years old , I had not seen My sister , till this hour ; I now arrived : She sent for me to see her marriage ; A woeful one ! But ...
... mind ; and I have grief enough Without thy help . Asp . I would I could with credit . Since I was twelve years old , I had not seen My sister , till this hour ; I now arrived : She sent for me to see her marriage ; A woeful one ! But ...
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Acast Alex Amin arms art thou Bajazet bear behold bless blood brave C¿sar Cast Castalio Cato Ceph Cleo Cleon Cleora curse dare Daugh dear death Dion DIPHILUS dost thou Enter Eumenes Evad Exeunt Exit eyes fair false Farewell fate father fear fortune give gods grief guard hand happy hate hear heart Heaven Hengo honour hope Juba king lady Leost Leosthenes live look lord Lysimachus madam mercy Monimia ne'er Nennius never night noble o'er Orest passion peace Philaster Photinus Pier pity Pompey prince Ptol Pyrrhus rage revenge Roman ruin SCENE scorn shame shew slave soldier sorrow soul speak sure sword Syphax Tamerlane tears tell thee thine thou art thou hast thought Thra Timag Twas twill Vent villain virtue weep wilt wretched wrong Zara
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Page 358 - IT must be so Plato, thou reason'st well ! — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought? why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 359 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Page 350 - Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her, And imitates her actions, where she is not : It ought not to be sported with.
Page 358 - Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.
Page 33 - Of which he borrowed some to quench his thirst, And paid the nymph again as much in tears. A garland lay him by...
Page 344 - Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture of a skin that I admire. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
Page 213 - I'm only troubled, The life I bear is worn to such a rag, 'Tis scarce worth giving. I could wish, indeed, We threw it from us with a better grace; That, like two lions taken in the toils, We might at least thrust out our paws, and wound The hunters that inclose us.
Page 358 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Page 248 - Ohy woman! lovely woman! nature made thee .To temper man : we had been brutes without you. Angels are painted fair, to look like you : There's in you all that we believe of Heaven, Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love.
Page 199 - VENT. Him would I see; that man, of all the world: Just such a one we want. ANT. He loved me too; I was his soul ; he lived not but in me : We were so closed within each other's breasts, The rivets were not found, that joined us first. That does not reach us yet : we were so mixt, As meeting streams, both to ourselves were lost...