Comus: A Maskproprietors, under the direction of John Bell, 1791 - 66 páginas |
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... gone to bed ; And Advice with scrup'lous head , Stria Age and sour Severity , With their grave saws , in slumber lie . We , that are of purer fire , Imitate the starry choir , Who , in their nightly watchful spheres , Lead in swift ...
... gone to bed ; And Advice with scrup'lous head , Stria Age and sour Severity , With their grave saws , in slumber lie . We , that are of purer fire , Imitate the starry choir , Who , in their nightly watchful spheres , Lead in swift ...
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... gone ! may scorn pursue her wan- ton arts , " And all the painted charms that vice can wear . " Yet oft ' o'er credulous youth such Sirens triumph , " And lead their captive sense in chains as strong " As links of adamant . Let us be ...
... gone ! may scorn pursue her wan- ton arts , " And all the painted charms that vice can wear . " Yet oft ' o'er credulous youth such Sirens triumph , " And lead their captive sense in chains as strong " As links of adamant . Let us be ...
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... gone any where else , he would have paid for her fixing , let the cost be what it would . 202 Giles . Why , for that manner , folks did not spare to say , that my lord had a sort of a sneaking kindness for her himself : and I remember ...
... gone any where else , he would have paid for her fixing , let the cost be what it would . 202 Giles . Why , for that manner , folks did not spare to say , that my lord had a sort of a sneaking kindness for her himself : and I remember ...
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... gone up to the castle , Patty ; thou know'st it would not be right for us to do any thing without giving his lordship intelligence , so I have sent the farmer to let him know that he is willing , and we are willing ; and with his ...
... gone up to the castle , Patty ; thou know'st it would not be right for us to do any thing without giving his lordship intelligence , so I have sent the farmer to let him know that he is willing , and we are willing ; and with his ...
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... gone mad , that's for sartin ; wit and learning have crack'd her brain - Poor soul , poor soul- It is often the case of those who have too much of them . - Lord , Lord , how sorry I be - But hold , she says I baint to her mind - mayn't ...
... gone mad , that's for sartin ; wit and learning have crack'd her brain - Poor soul , poor soul- It is often the case of those who have too much of them . - Lord , Lord , how sorry I be - But hold , she says I baint to her mind - mayn't ...
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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
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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.