Comus: A Maskproprietors, under the direction of John Bell, 1791 - 66 páginas |
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... give his beauties to the public eye : His the pure essence , ours the grosser mean Thro ' which his spirit is in action seen . Observe the force , observe the flame divine That glows , breathes , acts , in each harmonious line . Great ...
... give his beauties to the public eye : His the pure essence , ours the grosser mean Thro ' which his spirit is in action seen . Observe the force , observe the flame divine That glows , breathes , acts , in each harmonious line . Great ...
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... give him safe convoy , " As now I do ; and opportune thou com'st " To share an office which thy nature loves . " This be our task ; but first I must put off " These my sky robes spun out of Iris ' woof , " And take the weeds and ...
... give him safe convoy , " As now I do ; and opportune thou com'st " To share an office which thy nature loves . " This be our task ; but first I must put off " These my sky robes spun out of Iris ' woof , " And take the weeds and ...
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... give it false presentments , lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment , And put the damsel to suspicious flight ; Which must not be , for that's against my course . I , under fair pretence of friendly ends , And well ...
... give it false presentments , lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment , And put the damsel to suspicious flight ; Which must not be , for that's against my course . I , under fair pretence of friendly ends , And well ...
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... give me answer from her mossy couch . Com . What chance , good Lady , hath bereft you thus ? Lady . Dim darkness and this leafy labyrinth . 331 Com . Could that divide you from near - ush'ring guides ? Lady . They left me weary on a ...
... give me answer from her mossy couch . Com . What chance , good Lady , hath bereft you thus ? Lady . Dim darkness and this leafy labyrinth . 331 Com . Could that divide you from near - ush'ring guides ? Lady . They left me weary on a ...
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... give ; The bowl's frolick joys let him teach her to prove , And she in return yield the raptures of love . Without love and wine , wit and beauty are vain , All grandeur insipid , and riches a pain , The most splendid palace grows dark ...
... give ; The bowl's frolick joys let him teach her to prove , And she in return yield the raptures of love . Without love and wine , wit and beauty are vain , All grandeur insipid , and riches a pain , The most splendid palace grows dark ...
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Términos y frases comunes
BEGGAR'S OPERA better brother Captain charms Clar CLARISSA Colonel OLDBOY Comus COVENT GARDEN daugh daughter dear Dian Dibdin Enter Eust ev'ry farmer father fellow Filch fond garden gentleman Giles girl give happy hath hear heart Heaven hither Hodge honour hope husband hussy ISAAC BICKERSTAFF Jenkins Jenny JESSAMY justice of peace Lady Lion Lionel Lock LOCKIT look Lord AIMWORTH lover LUCINDA Lucy Macheath Madam marriage marry Master Fairfield master Hawthorn MERVIN mind Miss Naiads never Opera papa Patty Peach Peachum pleasure Polly poor pray pretty Rossetta SCENE servant shew Sir Harry Sir John Flowerdale Sir William speak spirits sure sweet SYCAMORE tell thee THEODOSIA there's thing thou thought thro toy'd vex'd wench wife woman Wood word young Zounds
Pasajes populares
Página 45 - Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy ! Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven sings ; There, under ebon shades and low-browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
Página 64 - Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Página 33 - But when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
Página 31 - Some say no evil thing that walks by night. In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin or swart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.
Página 20 - The star that bids the shepherd fold Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream : And the slope sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole, Pacing toward the other goal Of his chamber in the east.
Página 32 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, that, when a soul is found sincerely so, a thousand. liveried angels lackey her, driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, and, in clear dream and solemn vision, tell her of things that no gross ear can hear...
Página 29 - Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk.
Página 46 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come,- and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Página 63 - All amidst the gardens fair Of Hesperus and his daughters three That sing about the golden tree. Along the crisped shades and bowers Revels the spruce and jocund Spring; The Graces and the rosy-bosom'd Hours Thither all their bounties bring...
Página 25 - Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night? I did not err: there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.