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... never been mentioned , but as it ought , though she has beauty enough to provoke detraction from the fairest of her own sex , and virtue enough to make the loose and dissolute of the other ( a very formidable party ) her enemies ...
... never been mentioned , but as it ought , though she has beauty enough to provoke detraction from the fairest of her own sex , and virtue enough to make the loose and dissolute of the other ( a very formidable party ) her enemies ...
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... never irresistibly seizes on the heart . Dramatically , Rowe must be considered as the founder of a subordinate idea of the nature of Tragic structure - He is content to be graceful , and occa- sionally aims to be grand - his characters ...
... never irresistibly seizes on the heart . Dramatically , Rowe must be considered as the founder of a subordinate idea of the nature of Tragic structure - He is content to be graceful , and occa- sionally aims to be grand - his characters ...
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... utterance all is vile ; since I can only Swear you reign here , but never tell how much . " Sci . It is enough ; I know thee , thou art honest ; " Goodness innate , and worth hereditary " Are in A & I. THE FAIR PENITENT .
... utterance all is vile ; since I can only Swear you reign here , but never tell how much . " Sci . It is enough ; I know thee , thou art honest ; " Goodness innate , and worth hereditary " Are in A & I. THE FAIR PENITENT .
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... Never to load it with the marriage chain ; That I would still retain her in my heart , My ever gentle mistress and my friend ! But for those other names of wife and husband , They only meant ill nature , cares , and quarrels . Ros . How ...
... Never to load it with the marriage chain ; That I would still retain her in my heart , My ever gentle mistress and my friend ! But for those other names of wife and husband , They only meant ill nature , cares , and quarrels . Ros . How ...
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... never grace the public with his virtues.- " Perhaps even now he gazes fondly on her , " And , thinking soul and body both alike , " Blesses the perfect workmanship of Heav'n ; 320 " Then sighing , to his ev'ry care speaks peace 24 A & t ...
... never grace the public with his virtues.- " Perhaps even now he gazes fondly on her , " And , thinking soul and body both alike , " Blesses the perfect workmanship of Heav'n ; 320 " Then sighing , to his ev'ry care speaks peace 24 A & t ...
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Alic Altamont Anna arms beauty behold bless bosom brave breast brother C¿sar Calista Cato Cato's charms Child Maurice Curiatius curse dear death Decius dost thou Douglas dreadful e'er Enter Ev'n ev'ry Exeunt Exit eyes fair FAIR PENITENT fame fatal fate father fear foes fond forgive friendship gentle give Glen Glenalvon Glost grace grief hand happy hear heart Heav'n honour Horatia JANE SHORE Juba live look Lord HASTINGS Loth Lothario lov'd Lucia Lucius maid Marcia Marcus never NICHOLAS ROWE noble Norval Numidian o'er passion peace Pharsalia pity Portius pow'r prince rage Roman Roman senate Rome SCENE Sciolto scorn Sempronius shalt shame sorrows soul speak sword Syph Syphax tears tell tender thee thine thou art thou hast thought Twas Valeria vengeance virtue weep woes wretch youth
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Page 77 - 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 heav'n 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 and...
Page 77 - ... 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 77 - 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 77 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age and nature sink in years : But thou shall flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds.
Page 31 - My voice is still for war. Gods ! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death ? No ; let us rise at once, gird on our swords, And, at the head of our remaining troops, Attack the foe, break through the thick array Of his thronged legions, and charge home upon him.
Page 45 - 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 25 - 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 viii - 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 33 - Afric's heat, and season'd to the sun; Numidia's spacious kingdom lies behind us, Ready to rise at its young prince's call. While there is hope, do not distrust the gods ; But wait, at least, till Caesar's near approach Force us to yield.
Page 73 - How beautiful is death when earned by virtue ! Who would not be that youth ? What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country...