British Theatre: The orphan, by Thomas Otway. 1791. Cato, by Joseph Addison. 1791J. Bell, 1791 |
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... fate to lose it . This , with eternal wishes for your Royal Highness's content , happiness , and prosperity , in all humility is presented by Your most obedient , and devoted servant , THO . OTWAY . THE ORPHAN . THIS play stands forth ...
... fate to lose it . This , with eternal wishes for your Royal Highness's content , happiness , and prosperity , in all humility is presented by Your most obedient , and devoted servant , THO . OTWAY . THE ORPHAN . THIS play stands forth ...
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... , sick of a lewd age , she vents for ease , But now her only strife should be to please ; Since of ill fate the baneful cloud's withdrawn , And happiness again begins to dawn ; Since back with joy , and triumph he is come Gift ...
... , sick of a lewd age , she vents for ease , But now her only strife should be to please ; Since of ill fate the baneful cloud's withdrawn , And happiness again begins to dawn ; Since back with joy , and triumph he is come Gift ...
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... fate ; " Whence he with honour is expected back , " And mighty marks of that great prince's favour . " Paul . Our master never would permit his sons " To launch for fortune in th ' uncertain world ; " But warns ' em to avoid both courts ...
... fate ; " Whence he with honour is expected back , " And mighty marks of that great prince's favour . " Paul . Our master never would permit his sons " To launch for fortune in th ' uncertain world ; " But warns ' em to avoid both courts ...
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... fate's upon me . Distrust and heaviness sit round my heart , And apprehension shocks my timorous soul . Why was not I laid in my peaceful grave With my poor parents , and at rest as they are ? Instead of that , I'm wand'ring into cares ...
... fate's upon me . Distrust and heaviness sit round my heart , And apprehension shocks my timorous soul . Why was not I laid in my peaceful grave With my poor parents , and at rest as they are ? Instead of that , I'm wand'ring into cares ...
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... fate surpris'd ' em , and one grave receiv'd ' em ; My father , with his dying breath , bequeath'd Her to my love . My mother , as she lay Languishing by him , call'd me to her side , Took me in her fainting arms , wept , and embrac'd ...
... fate surpris'd ' em , and one grave receiv'd ' em ; My father , with his dying breath , bequeath'd Her to my love . My mother , as she lay Languishing by him , call'd me to her side , Took me in her fainting arms , wept , and embrac'd ...
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Page 78 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest 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 ! Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes...
Page 79 - 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 79 - 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 78 - Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.
Page 79 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Page x - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Page 18 - Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.
Page 34 - CATO. Let|| not a torrent of impetuous zeal Transport thee thus beyond the bounds of REASON : True FORTITUDE is seen in great exploits, That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides: All else is tow'ring frenzy and distraction.
Page 24 - Then rises fresh, pursues his wonted game, And if the following day he chance to find A new repast, or an untasted spring, Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.
Page 63 - Forbear, Sempronius ! — see they suffer death, But in their deaths remember they are men. Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous. Lucius, the base degenerate age requires Severity, and justice in its rigour; This awes an impious...