Representative English Dramas from Dryden to SheridanOxford University Press, American Branch, 1914 - 459 pages |
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... better company . Abdal . Reason was given to curb our headstrong will . Zul . Reason but shows a weak physician's skill ; Gives nothing , while the raging fit does last , But stays to cure it , when the worst is past . Reason's a staff ...
... better company . Abdal . Reason was given to curb our headstrong will . Zul . Reason but shows a weak physician's skill ; Gives nothing , while the raging fit does last , But stays to cure it , when the worst is past . Reason's a staff ...
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... better fate . Abdal . You speak too late ; my empire's lost too far : I cannot fight . Abdelm . Then make a flying war ; Dislodge betimes before you are beset . Abdal . Her tears , her smiles , her every look's a net . Her voice is like ...
... better fate . Abdal . You speak too late ; my empire's lost too far : I cannot fight . Abdelm . Then make a flying war ; Dislodge betimes before you are beset . Abdal . Her tears , her smiles , her every look's a net . Her voice is like ...
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... better , with more zeal than he . Almah . This day gave my faith to him , he his to me . Almanz . Good heaven , thy book of fate before me lay , But to tear out the journal of this day : Or , if the order of the world below Will not the ...
... better , with more zeal than he . Almah . This day gave my faith to him , he his to me . Almanz . Good heaven , thy book of fate before me lay , But to tear out the journal of this day : Or , if the order of the world below Will not the ...
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... better of her , and believe she's dead . To them ALMANZOR . Boab . We are betrayed , the enemy is here ; We have no farther room to hope or fear . Almanz . It is indeed Almanzor whom you see , But he no longer is your enemy . You were ...
... better of her , and believe she's dead . To them ALMANZOR . Boab . We are betrayed , the enemy is here ; We have no farther room to hope or fear . Almanz . It is indeed Almanzor whom you see , But he no longer is your enemy . You were ...
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... better , in your nuptial bed , To have a living lover than a dead ? Almah . I can no longer bear to be ac- cused , As if , what I could grant you , I refused . My father's choice I never will dispute ; And he has chosen ere you moved ...
... better , in your nuptial bed , To have a living lover than a dead ? Almah . I can no longer bear to be ac- cused , As if , what I could grant you , I refused . My father's choice I never will dispute ; And he has chosen ere you moved ...
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Page 217 - 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 217 - 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 194 - 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: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage...
Page 325 - Why, really, Sir, your bill of fare is so exquisite, that any one part of it is full as good as another. Send us what you please. So much for supper. And now to see that our beds are aired, and properly taken care of.
Page 324 - From the excellence of your cup, my old friend, I suppose you have a good deal of business in this part of the country. Warm work, now and then at elections, I suppose. Hard. No, Sir, I have' long given that work over. Since our betters have hit upon the expedient of electing each other, there's no business for us that sell ale.
Page 365 - If not, z — ds ! don't enter the same hemisphere with me! don't dare to breathe the same air, or use the same light with me ; but get an atmosphere and a sun of your own ! I'll...
Page 318 - Then, to be plain with you, Kate, I expect the young gentleman I have chosen to be your husband from town this very day. I have his father's letter, in which he informs me his son is set out, and that he intends to follow himself shortly after.
Page 322 - Diggory, you are too talkative. Then, if I happen to say a good thing, or tell a good story at table, you must not all burst out a-laughing, as if you made part of the company.
Page 134 - Then I alone the conquest prize, When I insult a rival's eyes : If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see That heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
Page 118 - 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.