Modern English Drama: Dryden, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Shelley, Browning, ByronP. F. Collier & son, 1909 - 444 páginas |
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... Lucretia's design in exposing herself to the conse- quences of an expostulation with Cenci after having adminis- tered the opiate , was to induce him by a feigned tale to confess himself before death ; this being esteemed by Catholics ...
... Lucretia's design in exposing herself to the conse- quences of an expostulation with Cenci after having adminis- tered the opiate , was to induce him by a feigned tale to confess himself before death ; this being esteemed by Catholics ...
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... LUCRETIA , Wife of Cenci , and Step - mother of his children . BEATRICE , his Daughter . The SCENE lies principally in Rome , but changes during the fourth Act to Petrella , a castle among the Apulian Apennines . Time . During the ...
... LUCRETIA , Wife of Cenci , and Step - mother of his children . BEATRICE , his Daughter . The SCENE lies principally in Rome , but changes during the fourth Act to Petrella , a castle among the Apulian Apennines . Time . During the ...
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... Lucretia , Beatrice , Orsino , CAMILLO , NOBLES CENCI . Welcome , my friends and kinsmen ; welcome ye , Princes and Cardinals , pillars of the church , Whose presence honours our festivity . I have too long lived like an anchorite , And ...
... Lucretia , Beatrice , Orsino , CAMILLO , NOBLES CENCI . Welcome , my friends and kinsmen ; welcome ye , Princes and Cardinals , pillars of the church , Whose presence honours our festivity . I have too long lived like an anchorite , And ...
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... Lucretia ) . Great God ! Some dreadful ill Must have befallen my brothers . LUCRETIA . He speaks too frankly . BEATRICE . How horrible ! Fear not , Child , Ah ! My blood runs cold . I fear that wicked laughter round his eye , Which ...
... Lucretia ) . Great God ! Some dreadful ill Must have befallen my brothers . LUCRETIA . He speaks too frankly . BEATRICE . How horrible ! Fear not , Child , Ah ! My blood runs cold . I fear that wicked laughter round his eye , Which ...
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... LUCRETIA and BERNARDO LUCRETIA . Weep not , my gentle boy ; he struck but me Who have borne deeper wrongs . In truth , if he Had killed me , he had done a kinder deed . O , God Almighty , do thou look upon us , We have no other friend ...
... LUCRETIA and BERNARDO LUCRETIA . Weep not , my gentle boy ; he struck but me Who have borne deeper wrongs . In truth , if he Had killed me , he had done a kinder deed . O , God Almighty , do thou look upon us , We have no other friend ...
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Términos y frases comunes
ALEX ALEXAS Antony Austin bear BEATRICE believe BERNARDO brother Cæsar CAMILLO Cenci Charles CHARMION CHAS CLEO Cleopatra CRAB curse dare dear death deed DOLA Dolabella earth Egad Enter Exeunt Exit eyes Farewell father fear fortune gentleman GERARD GIACOMO give GUENDOLEN hand HARDCASTLE HAST hear heard heart Heaven honour hope innocent judge LADY SNEER Lady Sneerwell LADY TEAZ laugh leave live look lord LUCRETIA madam MANFRED Maria Marlow MARZIO MERTOUN MILDRED MISS HARD MISS NEV Moses never night o'er OCTAV Octavia OLIMPIO ORSINO pity pray Rowley ruin SAVELLA SCENE SERAP servant SIR OLIV SIR PET Sir Peter soul speak spirit sure SURF SURFACE talk Teazle tell thee there's thine thing Thorold thou art thought TONY TRESHAM true truth twas VENT Ventidius what's wife word young Zounds Аввот
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Página 161 - I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass. Here's to the charmer whose dimples we prize ; Now to the maid who has none, sir : Here's to the girl with a pair of blue eyes, And here's to the nymph with but one, sir.
Página 222 - Then come, put the jorum about. And let us be merry and clever. Our hearts and our liquors are stout. Here's the Three Jolly Pigeons for ever.
Página 140 - tis out of pure good humor, and I take it for granted they deal exactly in the same manner with me. But, Sir Peter, you know you promised to come to Lady Sneerwell's too. SIR PET. Well, well, I'll call in, just to look after my own character.
Página 227 - You must not be so talkative, Diggory. You must be all attention to the guests. You must hear us talk, and not think of talking...
Página 447 - I could not tame my nature down; for he Must serve who fain would sway; and soothe, and sue, And watch all time, and pry into all place, And be a living Lie, who would become A mighty thing amongst the mean— and such The mass are; I disdained to mingle with A herd, though to be leader— and of wolves. The lion is alone, and so am I.
Página 221 - And her partiality is such, that she actually thinks him so. A fortune like yours is no small temptation. Besides, as she has the sole management of it, I'm not surprised to see her unwilling to let it go out of the family. Miss NEV.
Página 441 - Astarte! —my beloved! speak to me: I have so much endured — so much endure — Look on me ! the grave hath not changed thee more Than I am changed for thee. Thou lovedst me Too much, as I loved thee : we were not made To torture thus each other, though it were The deadliest sin to love as we have loved.
Página 430 - It is not noon: the sunbow's rays still arch The torrent with the many hues of heaven, And roll the sheeted silver's waving column O'er the crag's headlong perpendicular, And fling its lines of foaming light along, And to and fro, — like the pale courser's tail, loo The giant steed, to be bestrode by Death, As told in the Apocalypse.
Página 429 - Myself, and thee — a peasant of the Alps — Thy humble virtues, hospitable home, And spirit patient, pious, proud and free ; Thy self-respect, grafted on innocent thoughts ; Thy days of health, and nights of sleep ; thy toils, By danger dignified, yet guiltless ; hopes Of cheerful old age and a quiet grave, With cross and garland over its green turfr And thy grandchildren's love for epitaph ; This do I see — and then I look within — It matters not — my soul was scorch'd already ! C.