Representative English Dramas from Dryden to SheridanOxford University Press, American Branch, 1914 - 459 páginas |
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... better things has known , Beneath their poet's impotence they groan . See now what charity it was to save ! They thought you liked , what only you forgave ; And brought you more dull sense , dull sense much worse Than brisk gay nonsense ...
... better things has known , Beneath their poet's impotence they groan . See now what charity it was to save ! They thought you liked , what only you forgave ; And brought you more dull sense , dull sense much worse Than brisk gay nonsense ...
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... better cause . My honor is not wholly put to flight , But would , if seconded , renew the fight . Zul . I met my sister , but I do not see What difficulty in your choice can be : She told me all ; and ' tis so plain a case , You need ...
... better cause . My honor is not wholly put to flight , But would , if seconded , renew the fight . Zul . I met my sister , but I do not see What difficulty in your choice can be : She told me all ; and ' tis so plain a case , You need ...
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... better fate . Abdal . You speak too late ; my empire's lost too far : I cannot fight . Abdelm . Then make a flying war ; Dislodge betimes before you are beset . Abdal . Her tears , her smiles , her every look's a net . Her voice is like ...
... better fate . Abdal . You speak too late ; my empire's lost too far : I cannot fight . Abdelm . Then make a flying war ; Dislodge betimes before you are beset . Abdal . Her tears , her smiles , her every look's a net . Her voice is like ...
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... better fortune I'll appear , With open arms , loose veil , and flowing hair , Just flying forward from my rolling sphere : My smiles shall make Abdalla more than man ; Let him look up , and perish if he can . [ Exit . [ After the dance ...
... better fortune I'll appear , With open arms , loose veil , and flowing hair , Just flying forward from my rolling sphere : My smiles shall make Abdalla more than man ; Let him look up , and perish if he can . [ Exit . [ After the dance ...
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... better , with more zeal than he . Almah . This day I gave my faith to him , he his to me . Almanz . Good heaven , thy book of fate before me lay , But to tear out the journal of this day : Or , if the order of the world below Will not ...
... better , with more zeal than he . Almah . This day I gave my faith to him , he his to me . Almanz . Good heaven , thy book of fate before me lay , But to tear out the journal of this day : Or , if the order of the world below Will not ...
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Abdal Abdelm Acres Almah Almanz Almanzor Antony Arch Beggar's Opera Belv Belvidera Boab brother Cæsar Cato Chas Cher Cleo Cleopatra comedy Conquest of Granada dear death Dola Enter Exeunt Exit eyes Fain father Faulk Faulkland fear fellow fool fortune gentleman give hand happy Hastings hear heart Heaven honor hope Humph husband Jaff Jaffeir Juba king Lady Sneer Lady Teaz Lady Wish leave live look lord lover Lucy Lyndar madam Malaprop Marlow married Millamant Mirabell Miss Hard Miss Neville never on't Peach Pierr play Polly Portius pray SCENE Scrub Sealand servant Sir Anth Sir Luc Sir Oliv Sir Pet Sir Peter Sir Wil soul speak Squire Stoops to Conquer sure Surf Syphax Teazle tell thee there's thing thou thought Thumb Tom Thumb Tony Twas Vent virtue wife woman
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Página 223 - 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.
Página 223 - It must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well ! — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? 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.
Página 330 - Sir, you have a right to command here. Here, Roger, bring us the bill of fare for to-night's supper. I believe it's drawn out. Your manner, Mr. Hastings, puts me in mind of my uncle, Colonel Wallop. It was a saying of his, that no man was sure of his supper till he had eaten it.
Página 326 - That's not necessary towards directing us where we are to go. TONY. No offence; but question for question is all fair, you know. Pray, gentlemen, is not this same Hardcastle a cross-grained, old-fashioned, whimsical fellow with an ugly face, a daughter, and a pretty son?
Página 223 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Página 327 - Then you were to keep straight forward, till you came to four roads. MARLOW. Come to where four roads meet? TONY. Ay; but you must be sure to take only one of them MARLOW. O, sir, you're facetious. TONY. Then, keeping to the right, you are to go sideways till you come upon Crack-skull Common; there you must look sharp for the track of the wheel, and go forward till you come to Farmer Murrain's barn. Coming to the farmer's barn, you are to turn to the right, and then to the left, and then to the right...
Página 133 - 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.
Página 401 - That's very true indeed, Sir Peter; and, after having married you, I should never pretend to taste again, I allow.
Página 363 - Objection! — let him object if he dare! — No, no, Mrs. Malaprop, Jack knows that the least demur puts me in a frenzy directly. My process was always very simple — in their younger days, 'twas "Jack do this"; — if he demurred, I knocked him down — and if he grumbled at that I always sent him out of the room. Mrs. Mai. Ay, and the properest way, o
Página 408 - Peter, good nature becomes you — you look now as you did before we were married, when you used to walk with me under the elms, and tell me stories of what a gallant you were in your youth, and chuck me under the chin, you would...