Representative English Dramas from Dryden to SheridanOxford University Press, American Branch, 1914 - 459 pages |
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... mean that I should die before . Name anything , good dear , but that thing more . Abdelm . Now I too late perceive I am undone ; Living and seeing , to my death I run . I know you false , yet in your snares I fall ; You grant me nothing ...
... mean that I should die before . Name anything , good dear , but that thing more . Abdelm . Now I too late perceive I am undone ; Living and seeing , to my death I run . I know you false , yet in your snares I fall ; You grant me nothing ...
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... mean to wait the final doom of war . For why should you my secret thoughts divine ? Abdal . Yet if we might be judged by reason's laws ! - Lyndar . Then you would have your reason judge my cause ! - Either confess your fault , or hold ...
... mean to wait the final doom of war . For why should you my secret thoughts divine ? Abdal . Yet if we might be judged by reason's laws ! - Lyndar . Then you would have your reason judge my cause ! - Either confess your fault , or hold ...
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... mean Shows , as it ought , a wife and Roman too . Ant . I fear , Octavia , you have begged my life . Octav . Begged it , my lord ? Ant . Yes , begged it , my ambassadress ; Poorly and basely begged it of your brother . Octav . Poorly ...
... mean Shows , as it ought , a wife and Roman too . Ant . I fear , Octavia , you have begged my life . Octav . Begged it , my lord ? Ant . Yes , begged it , my ambassadress ; Poorly and basely begged it of your brother . Octav . Poorly ...
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... mean of goodness ; for in beauty , madam , You make all wonders cease . Cleo . I was too rash : Take this in part of recompense . But , oh ! [ Giving a ring . I fear thou flatterest me . Char . Iras . She comes ! she's here ! Fly ...
... mean of goodness ; for in beauty , madam , You make all wonders cease . Cleo . I was too rash : Take this in part of recompense . But , oh ! [ Giving a ring . I fear thou flatterest me . Char . Iras . She comes ! she's here ! Fly ...
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... bleak winds shall whistle round our Of tasting anything a fool has palled . Aquil . I loathe and scorn that fool thou heads , mean'st , as much That makes him necessary ; power too , To qualify 87 VENICE PRESERVED ACT II , Sc . I.
... bleak winds shall whistle round our Of tasting anything a fool has palled . Aquil . I loathe and scorn that fool thou heads , mean'st , as much That makes him necessary ; power too , To qualify 87 VENICE PRESERVED ACT II , Sc . I.
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Page 223 - 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 223 - 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 heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 330 - Sir, you have a right to command here. Here, Roger, bring us the bill of fare for to-night's supper. I believe it's drawn out. Your manner, Mr. Hastings, puts me in mind of my uncle, Colonel Wallop. It was a saying of his, that no man was sure of his supper till he had eaten it.
Page 326 - That's not necessary towards directing us where we are to go. TONY. No offence; but question for question is all fair, you know. Pray, gentlemen, is not this same Hardcastle a cross-grained, old-fashioned, whimsical fellow with an ugly face, a daughter, and a pretty son?
Page 223 - 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 327 - Then you were to keep straight forward, till you came to four roads. MARLOW. Come to where four roads meet? TONY. Ay; but you must be sure to take only one of them MARLOW. O, sir, you're facetious. TONY. Then, keeping to the right, you are to go sideways till you come upon Crack-skull Common; there you must look sharp for the track of the wheel, and go forward till you come to Farmer Murrain's barn. Coming to the farmer's barn, you are to turn to the right, and then to the left, and then to the right...
Page 133 - Beauty the lover's gift! Lord, what is a lover, that it can give? Why, one makes lovers as fast as one pleases, and they live as long as one pleases, and they die as soon as one pleases; and then, if one pleases, one makes more.
Page 401 - That's very true indeed, Sir Peter; and, after having married you, I should never pretend to taste again, I allow.
Page 363 - Objection! — let him object if he dare! — No, no, Mrs. Malaprop, Jack knows that the least demur puts me in a frenzy directly. My process was always very simple — in their younger days, 'twas "Jack do this"; — if he demurred, I knocked him down — and if he grumbled at that I always sent him out of the room. Mrs. Mai. Ay, and the properest way, o
Page 408 - Peter, good nature becomes you — you look now as you did before we were married, when you used to walk with me under the elms, and tell me stories of what a gallant you were in your youth, and chuck me under the chin, you would...