Alcibiades. Don Carlos, prince of Spain. Titus and Berenice. The cheats of Scapin. Friendship in fashion. The soldier's fortuneF.C. and J. Rivington; T. Payne; Wilkie [a]nd Robinson; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; Cadell and Davies; J. Murray; J. Mawman; and R. Baldwin., 1812 - English drama |
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... 'd to know the worst of fate ; I would be blest ; can be unfortunate ; Since ' tis the only thing of Heav'n I crave , To meet a faithful lover , or a grave , Ther . THERAMNES at the door . -Stay , kind SCENE I. ] 7 ALCIBIADES .
... 'd to know the worst of fate ; I would be blest ; can be unfortunate ; Since ' tis the only thing of Heav'n I crave , To meet a faithful lover , or a grave , Ther . THERAMNES at the door . -Stay , kind SCENE I. ] 7 ALCIBIADES .
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Thomas Otway. Ther . THERAMNES at the door . -Stay , kind Polyndus , here , Whilst I go pay my just devotion there : [ Stepping to TIM . See , fairest queen of love and beauty , here Your faithfullest and humblest worshipper , Who comes ...
Thomas Otway. Ther . THERAMNES at the door . -Stay , kind Polyndus , here , Whilst I go pay my just devotion there : [ Stepping to TIM . See , fairest queen of love and beauty , here Your faithfullest and humblest worshipper , Who comes ...
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... stay , and pity a poor lover's fate ! Tim . If pity , sir , is all you ask , take that . Ther . Heavens , can she at those chains she gave me scoff ! Tim . You at your pleasure , sir , may shake ' em off . [ Exeunt TIM . and DRAX ...
... stay , and pity a poor lover's fate ! Tim . If pity , sir , is all you ask , take that . Ther . Heavens , can she at those chains she gave me scoff ! Tim . You at your pleasure , sir , may shake ' em off . [ Exeunt TIM . and DRAX ...
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... stay . [ Goes to the door . Alci . What airy visions o'er my eyes there move , Like the good genius of an absent love ! Where - e'er I turn me , I methink espy Timandra's image softly gliding by . Such fond ambition Love his slaves does ...
... stay . [ Goes to the door . Alci . What airy visions o'er my eyes there move , Like the good genius of an absent love ! Where - e'er I turn me , I methink espy Timandra's image softly gliding by . Such fond ambition Love his slaves does ...
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... Stay , lest you should pronounce too rash a doom ; Believe it is a blow will wound you home . But I will try— What gen'rous resolution you express . Know then you must hate Alcibiades . Patro . Protect me Heaven ! can you command that I ...
... Stay , lest you should pronounce too rash a doom ; Believe it is a blow will wound you home . But I will try— What gen'rous resolution you express . Know then you must hate Alcibiades . Patro . Protect me Heaven ! can you command that I ...
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Alci Alcibiades Anti Arsaces Beau Beaugard Bere Berenice Bloody-Bones Camilla Caper Carlos charms Clum Cour cuckold d'ye dare dear devil Don Car DON CARLOS Don John e'er Enter Exeunt Exit eyes faith fate father fear fellow fool Fourbin gentleman gone Goodvile Gripe hang happy hast hate hear heart Heaven honour hope is't King Lady Dunce Lady Squ LADY SQUEAMISH ladyship look Lord lov'd madam Mala Malagene methinks mistress murder ne'er never night Octa Octavian on't PATROCLUS pleasure poor Posa pr'ythee Queen rascal revenge rogue Rui-Go Saun Saunter Scapin Sir D Sir Jolly Sir Noble soul speak stay sure swear tell thee Theramnes there's thing thou art thought Thrif Timandra TISSAPHERNES Titus Truman twas Valentine Victoria vows what's Whilst whores wife wretched
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Page 9 - Its whole power is upon the affections ; for it is not written with much comprehension of thought, or elegance of expression. But if the heart is interested, many other beauties may be wanting, yet not be missed.
Page 11 - ... on Tower-hill where he is said to have died of want ; or, as it is related by one of his biographers, by swallowing, after a long fast, a piece of bread which charity had supplied. He went out, as is reported, almost naked, in the rage of hunger, and, finding a gentleman in a neighbouring coffee-houe, asked him for a shilling. The gentleman gave him a guinea ; and Otway going away bought a roll, and was choaked with the first mouthful.
Page 13 - Whereas Mr. Thomas Otway some time before his death made four acts of a play, whoever can give notice in whose hands the copy lies, either to Mr. Thomas Betterton or Mr. William Smith at the Theatre Royal, shall be well rewarded for hi...
Page 13 - Preserved ; but I must bear this testimony to his memory, that the passions are truly touched in it, though, perhaps, there is somewhat to be desired both in the grounds of them, and in the height and elegance of expression ; but nature is there, which is the greatest beauty. " In the passions," says our author, " we must have a very great regard to the quality of the persons who are actually possessed with them.
Page 11 - All this, I hope, is not true ; and there is this ground of better hope, that Pope, who lived near enough to be well informed, relates, in Spence's Memorials, that he died of a fever caught by violent pursuit of a thief that had robbed one of his friends. But that indigence, and its concomitants, sorrow and despondency, pressed hard upon him, has never been denied, whatever immediate cause might bring him to the grave.
Page 13 - To express the passions which are seated in the heart by outward signs, is one great precept of the painters, and very difficult to perform. In poetry, the same passions and motions of the mind are to be expressed ; and in this consists the principal difficulty, as well as the excellency of that art. This...
Page 12 - He appears by some of his verses to have been a zealous royalist, and had what was in those times the common reward of loyalty ; he lived and died neglected.
Page 13 - is the gift of Jupiter;" and, to speak in the same heathen language, We call it the gift of our Apollo, not to be obtained by pains or study, if we are not born to it: for the motions which are studied are never so natural as those which break out in the height of a real passion. Mr. Otway possessed this part as thoroughly as any of the ancients or moderns. I will not defend...
Page 84 - Igad, he knew not a line in it he .would be author of. But he is a fine facetious witty person, as my friend Sir Formal has it ; and to be even with him, I know a comedy of his, that has not so much as a quibble in it which I would be author of.
Page 7 - It appears, by the lampoon, to have had great success, and is said to have been played thirty nights together. This however it is reasonable to doubt, as so long a continuance of one play upon the stage is a very wide deviation from the practice of that time...