Tales of the Drama: Founded on the Tragedies of Shakespeare, Massinger, Shirley, Rowe, Murphy, Lillo, and Moore, and on the Comedies of Steel, Farquhar, Cumbrland, Bickerstaff, Goldsmith, and Mrs. CowleyRobinson, 1833 - 426 pages |
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... VENICE CORIOLANUS · THE WAY TO KEEP HIM THE GAMESTER THE HYPOCRITE JULIUS CÆSAR CONCLUSION PAGE . 9 31 49 71 73 91 105 123 141 171 195 213 235 251 275 · 293 321 341 365 381 399 421 r YRARSLI MBTIC MEM AOBK PREFACE . 12 " GOOD.
... VENICE CORIOLANUS · THE WAY TO KEEP HIM THE GAMESTER THE HYPOCRITE JULIUS CÆSAR CONCLUSION PAGE . 9 31 49 71 73 91 105 123 141 171 195 213 235 251 275 · 293 321 341 365 381 399 421 r YRARSLI MBTIC MEM AOBK PREFACE . 12 " GOOD.
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... we dare robe ourselves in sanctity , While all is dark impiety within ! This surely is the aggregate of sin , The last to be forgive : by heaven or mán . JULIUS CAESAR . -Now could I , Casca , Name 398 TALES OF THE DRAMA .
... we dare robe ourselves in sanctity , While all is dark impiety within ! This surely is the aggregate of sin , The last to be forgive : by heaven or mán . JULIUS CAESAR . -Now could I , Casca , Name 398 TALES OF THE DRAMA .
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... of the dying . The forms of warriors were seen in the clouds , engaged in dreadful combat . A lioness whelped in the streets ; and a lion paraded near the Capitol , glaring on all who passed him , yet not touching any. JULIUS CÆSAR.
... of the dying . The forms of warriors were seen in the clouds , engaged in dreadful combat . A lioness whelped in the streets ; and a lion paraded near the Capitol , glaring on all who passed him , yet not touching any. JULIUS CÆSAR.
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... Cæsar , because he had bestowed the first vacant prætorship on Brutus , and only the second on him . The gal- lant services of Cassius , in the Parthian war , cer- tainly gave him a superior claim . This , even Cæsar admitted ; yet he ...
... Cæsar , because he had bestowed the first vacant prætorship on Brutus , and only the second on him . The gal- lant services of Cassius , in the Parthian war , cer- tainly gave him a superior claim . This , even Cæsar admitted ; yet he ...
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... Cæsar's great fame had long excited his envy ; and now that envy was aroused to a thirst for vengeance : whilst the indulgence of these despicably selfish feelings induced him even to seek the life of Cæsar , though he veiled his own ...
... Cæsar's great fame had long excited his envy ; and now that envy was aroused to a thirst for vengeance : whilst the indulgence of these despicably selfish feelings induced him even to seek the life of Cæsar , though he veiled his own ...
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Page 165 - I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, And own no other function : each your doing, So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds, That all your acts are queens.
Page 426 - This was the noblest Roman of them all; All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Page 319 - Nay, take my life and all ; pardon not that : You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 282 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 188 - ... arts you labour to destroy ; A thousand ways our ruin you pursue, Yet blame in us those arts first taught by you.
Page 410 - ... breed of noble bloods ! When went there by an age, since the great flood, But it was...
Page 375 - I'ma beggar. — Why, tell it now. I, that can bear the ruin of those dearer to me — the ruin of a sister and her infant, can bear that too. Bev. No more of this — you wring my heart. Char.
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Page 362 - Not handled too roughly, nor play'd on too much ! The sparrow and linnet will feed from your hand, Grow tame by...
Page 384 - I'll bear them patiently, so he be happy! These hands shall toil for his support; these eyes be lifted up for hourly blessings on him; and every duty of a fond and faithful wife be doubly done to cheer and comfort him. So hear me ! so reward me ! [Rises.] Bev. I would kneel too, but that offended heaven would turn my prayers into curses; for I have done a deed to make life horrible to you.