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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... virtue ; on subjects where no appropri- ate quotation presented itself to research . On the whole , the publishers hesitate not to sub- mit the work to the public , in a confident hope that it will yield both amusement and instruction ...
... virtue ; on subjects where no appropri- ate quotation presented itself to research . On the whole , the publishers hesitate not to sub- mit the work to the public , in a confident hope that it will yield both amusement and instruction ...
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... virtue ; but his treacherous abuse of his mas- ter enraged her beyond all endurance : while he , to convince her of the truth of his assertion , presented her the paper , in which Sforza had given orders for her murder ; without any ...
... virtue ; but his treacherous abuse of his mas- ter enraged her beyond all endurance : while he , to convince her of the truth of his assertion , presented her the paper , in which Sforza had given orders for her murder ; without any ...
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... virtue roused her to indignation . Could Sforza descend so far from his noble nature as to stoop to suspicion ? Could he , dared he suspect her , whose purity of love for him exceeded parallel ; whose conduct was so free from taint that ...
... virtue roused her to indignation . Could Sforza descend so far from his noble nature as to stoop to suspicion ? Could he , dared he suspect her , whose purity of love for him exceeded parallel ; whose conduct was so free from taint that ...
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... virtue by the vile Francisco ; that her coldness and resentment had proceeded from the discovery of Sforza's mandate for her death given to Francisco ; and that , seduced by the show of penitence , she had promised not to betray him to ...
... virtue by the vile Francisco ; that her coldness and resentment had proceeded from the discovery of Sforza's mandate for her death given to Francisco ; and that , seduced by the show of penitence , she had promised not to betray him to ...
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... and exchanged contracts ; but absence had produced a very different effect on the minds of each . Oriana , passing her life in a sort of pleasing retirement , con- sidered constancy as the first of human virtues , and. THE INCONSTANT . 33.
... and exchanged contracts ; but absence had produced a very different effect on the minds of each . Oriana , passing her life in a sort of pleasing retirement , con- sidered constancy as the first of human virtues , and. THE INCONSTANT . 33.
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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.
Page 169 - Perfume for a lady's chamber ; Golden quoifs and stomachers, For my lads to give their dears: Pins and poking-sticks of steel. What maids lack from head to heel: Come buy of me, come; come buy, come buy; Buy, lads, or else your lasses cry...
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.