Representative English Dramas from Dryden to SheridanOxford University Press, American Branch, 1914 - 459 pages |
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Frederick Tupper James Waddell Tupper. $ 22.08 793 22410 Copyright , 1914 BY OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS AMERICAN BRANCH To be that one , to live without control !
Frederick Tupper James Waddell Tupper. $ 22.08 793 22410 Copyright , 1914 BY OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS AMERICAN BRANCH To be that one , to live without control !
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... live to see Thy Granadines assist their enemy ! You fight the Christians ' battles ; every life You lavish thus , in this intestine strife , Does from our weak foundations take one prop Which helped to hold our sinking country up . Ozm ...
... live to see Thy Granadines assist their enemy ! You fight the Christians ' battles ; every life You lavish thus , in this intestine strife , Does from our weak foundations take one prop Which helped to hold our sinking country up . Ozm ...
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... live to see Thy Granadines assist their enemy ! You fight the Christians ' battles ; every life You lavish thus , in this intestine strife , Does from our weak foundations take one prop Which helped to hold our sinking country up . Ozm ...
... live to see Thy Granadines assist their enemy ! You fight the Christians ' battles ; every life You lavish thus , in this intestine strife , Does from our weak foundations take one prop Which helped to hold our sinking country up . Ozm ...
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... live : That life he gave for us , for him we give . Boab . It was a traitor's voice that spoke those words ; Boab . Away , and execute him instantly ! [ To his Guards . Almanz . Stand off ; I have not leisure yet to die . To them ...
... live : That life he gave for us , for him we give . Boab . It was a traitor's voice that spoke those words ; Boab . Away , and execute him instantly ! [ To his Guards . Almanz . Stand off ; I have not leisure yet to die . To them ...
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... live king Mahomet Boabdelin ! Almanz . No more ; but hushed as mid- night silence go : He will not have your acclamations now . Hence , you unthinking crowd ! - [ The common people go off on both parties . Empire , thou poor and ...
... live king Mahomet Boabdelin ! Almanz . No more ; but hushed as mid- night silence go : He will not have your acclamations now . Hence , you unthinking crowd ! - [ The common people go off on both parties . Empire , thou poor and ...
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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...
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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.