Tales of the Drama: Founded on the Tragedies of Shakespeare, Massinger, Shirley, Rowe, Murphy, Lillo, and Moore, and on the Comedies of Steel, Farquhar, Cumbrland, Bickerstaff, Goldsmith, and Mrs. Cowley |
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... heavens , he had already seated himself on his throne , Marcelia by his side , pouring forth his vows of never ceasing love and adoration , which she received with a blushing grace that en- hanced her beauties . Short , however , was ...
... heavens , he had already seated himself on his throne , Marcelia by his side , pouring forth his vows of never ceasing love and adoration , which she received with a blushing grace that en- hanced her beauties . Short , however , was ...
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... heavens to reward her truth and ever during constancy . The Marquis Pescara was now announced , who came to visit Sforza on business which would not admit delay , and immediately obtained an audience . Pescara , though in the service of ...
... heavens to reward her truth and ever during constancy . The Marquis Pescara was now announced , who came to visit Sforza on business which would not admit delay , and immediately obtained an audience . Pescara , though in the service of ...
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... heaven be for ever closed against him , and for which even the fiends of hell would think him too monstrous to gain admission amongst them . Francisco was shaken ; yet he took the oath and promised its fulfilment . Sforza then informed ...
... heaven be for ever closed against him , and for which even the fiends of hell would think him too monstrous to gain admission amongst them . Francisco was shaken ; yet he took the oath and promised its fulfilment . Sforza then informed ...
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... heavens for vengeance ; I will reward your captains and your soldiers too , those who in the late battle have done best service . I have spo- ken , sir , and now await your answer : but I shall receive it without dismay ; as in the ...
... heavens for vengeance ; I will reward your captains and your soldiers too , those who in the late battle have done best service . I have spo- ken , sir , and now await your answer : but I shall receive it without dismay ; as in the ...
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... Heaven to forgive him also , and yielded her pure soul into the hands of her Maker . Sforza stood motionless , like one entranced , and was dragged insensible from the scene of blood ! Francisco , when he fled from Milan , had hasten ...
... Heaven to forgive him also , and yielded her pure soul into the hands of her Maker . Sforza stood motionless , like one entranced , and was dragged insensible from the scene of blood ! Francisco , when he fled from Milan , had hasten ...
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Page 165 - I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, And own no other function : each your doing, So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds, That all your acts are queens.
Page 426 - This was the noblest Roman of them all; All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Page 319 - Nay, take my life and all ; pardon not that : You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 282 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 188 - ... arts you labour to destroy ; A thousand ways our ruin you pursue, Yet blame in us those arts first taught by you.
Page 410 - ... breed of noble bloods ! When went there by an age, since the great flood, But it was...
Page 375 - I'ma beggar. — Why, tell it now. I, that can bear the ruin of those dearer to me — the ruin of a sister and her infant, can bear that too. Bev. No more of this — you wring my heart. Char.
Page 169 - Perfume for a lady's chamber ; Golden quoifs and stomachers, For my lads to give their dears: Pins and poking-sticks of steel. What maids lack from head to heel: Come buy of me, come; come buy, come buy; Buy, lads, or else your lasses cry...
Page 362 - Not handled too roughly, nor play'd on too much ! The sparrow and linnet will feed from your hand, Grow tame by...
Page 384 - I'll bear them patiently, so he be happy! These hands shall toil for his support; these eyes be lifted up for hourly blessings on him; and every duty of a fond and faithful wife be doubly done to cheer and comfort him. So hear me ! so reward me ! [Rises.] Bev. I would kneel too, but that offended heaven would turn my prayers into curses; for I have done a deed to make life horrible to you.