British Theatre: Comprising Tragedies, Comedies, Operas, and Farces, from the Most Classic Writers ; with Biography, Critical Account and Explanatory Notes, 5. köideBaudry, 1828 - 908 pages |
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... death . At fifteen he was entered of Queen's College , Oxford , and in about two years admitted to the degrees of bachelor and master of arts in that college ; at which time he was celebrated for his latin poems , to be found in a ...
... death . At fifteen he was entered of Queen's College , Oxford , and in about two years admitted to the degrees of bachelor and master of arts in that college ; at which time he was celebrated for his latin poems , to be found in a ...
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... death ? Marcia . How , Lucia ! wouldst thou have me sink away In pleasing dreams , and lose myself in love , When ev'ry moment Cato's life's at stake ? Lucia . Why have I not this constancy of mind , Who have so many griefs to try its ...
... death ? Marcia . How , Lucia ! wouldst thou have me sink away In pleasing dreams , and lose myself in love , When ev'ry moment Cato's life's at stake ? Lucia . Why have I not this constancy of mind , Who have so many griefs to try its ...
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... death , And smile in agony ! May serve their country with as warm a zeal , Though ' tis not kindled into so much rage . Sem . This sober conduct is a mighty virtue In lukewarm patriots . Cato . Come , no more , Sempronius ; All here are ...
... death , And smile in agony ! May serve their country with as warm a zeal , Though ' tis not kindled into so much rage . Sem . This sober conduct is a mighty virtue In lukewarm patriots . Cato . Come , no more , Sempronius ; All here are ...
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... death is in the word — for ever ! Por . Thou must not go ; my soul still hov- ers o'er thee , And can't get loose . Lucia . If the firm Portius shake To hear of parting , think what Lucia suffers ! Por . " Tis true , unruffled and ...
... death is in the word — for ever ! Por . Thou must not go ; my soul still hov- ers o'er thee , And can't get loose . Lucia . If the firm Portius shake To hear of parting , think what Lucia suffers ! Por . " Tis true , unruffled and ...
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... death , But in their deaths remember they are men ; if Lucius , the base , degen'rate age requires Severity . Stands sure ? Oh , Marcus , I am warm'd ; my When by just vengeance guilty mortals perish , The gods behold the punishment ...
... death , But in their deaths remember they are men ; if Lucius , the base , degen'rate age requires Severity . Stands sure ? Oh , Marcus , I am warm'd ; my When by just vengeance guilty mortals perish , The gods behold the punishment ...
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Page 483 - I'll wager the rascals a crown, They always preach best with a skinful. But when you come down with your pence, For a slice of their scurvy religion, I'll leave it to all men of sense, But you, my good friend, are the pigeon. Toroddle, toroddle, toroll ! Then come, put the jorum about, And let us be merry and clever, Our hearts and our liquors are stout, Here's the Three Jolly Pigeons for ever.
Page 5 - Of his throng'd legions, and charge home upon him. Perhaps some arm, more lucky than the rest, May reach his heart, and free the world from bondage.
Page 484 - It's a damn'd long, dark, dirty, dangerous way. Stingo, tell the gentlemen the way to Mr. Hardcastle's ! ( Winking upon the Landlord.) Mr. Hardcastle's, of Quagmire Marsh — you understand me ? LAND. Master Hardcastle's...
Page 349 - Men are ever in extremes; either doting or averse. While they are lovers, if they have fire and sense, their jealousies are insupportable; and when they cease to love (we ought to think at least) they...
Page 483 - Now, if I pleased, I could be so revenged upon the old grumbletonian. But then I'm afraid — afraid of what ? I shall soon be worth fifteen hundred a year, and let him frighten me out of that if he can ! Enter Landlord, conducting Marlow and Hastings. MARLOW. What a tedious uncomfortable day have we had of it ! We were told it was but forty miles across the country, and we have come above threescore ! HASTINGS.
Page 483 - I believe they may. They look woundily like Frenchmen. TONY. Then desire them to step this way, and I'll set them right in a twinkling. (Exit Landlord.) Gentlemen, as they mayn't be good enough company for you, step down for a moment, and I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
Page 486 - Yet, George, if we open the campaign too fiercely at first, we may want ammunition before it is over. I think to reserve the embroidery to secure a retreat. HARD. Your talking of a retreat, Mr. Marlow, puts me in mind of the Duke of Marlborough, when we went to besiege Denain.
Page 481 - You may be a Darby, but I'll be no Joan, I promise you. I'm not so old as you'd make me, by more than one good year. Add twenty to twenty, and make money of that.
Page 484 - No, sir; but if you can inform us — TONY. Why, gentlemen, if you know neither the road you are going, nor where you are, nor the road you came, the first thing I have to inform you is, that — you have lost your way.
Page 14 - Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.