British Theatre, Volume 20J. Bell, 1796 - English drama |
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... king's ambitious breast , He murmurs vengeance at the name of Cali , And dooms my rash fidelity to ruin . Dem . Unhappy lot of all that shine in courts ; — For forc'd compliance , or for zealous virtue , Still odious to the monarch , or ...
... king's ambitious breast , He murmurs vengeance at the name of Cali , And dooms my rash fidelity to ruin . Dem . Unhappy lot of all that shine in courts ; — For forc'd compliance , or for zealous virtue , Still odious to the monarch , or ...
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... kings , Thou know'st not yet thy master's future greatness , His vast designs , his plans of boundless power . When ev'ry storm in my domain shall roar , When ev'ry wave shall beat a Turkish shore , Then , Cali , shall the toils of ...
... kings , Thou know'st not yet thy master's future greatness , His vast designs , his plans of boundless power . When ev'ry storm in my domain shall roar , When ev'ry wave shall beat a Turkish shore , Then , Cali , shall the toils of ...
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... kings ; For what are pompous titles , proud alliance , Empire or wealth , to excellence like thine ? Abd . Receive th ' impatient sultan to thy arms ; And may a long posterity of monarchs , The pride and terror of succeeding days , Rise ...
... kings ; For what are pompous titles , proud alliance , Empire or wealth , to excellence like thine ? Abd . Receive th ' impatient sultan to thy arms ; And may a long posterity of monarchs , The pride and terror of succeeding days , Rise ...
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... king . Go , seize him , load him with reproachful chains ; Before the assembled troops proclaim his crimes ; Then leave him stretch'd upon the ling'ring rack , Amidst the camp to howl his life away . Mus . Should we before the troops ...
... king . Go , seize him , load him with reproachful chains ; Before the assembled troops proclaim his crimes ; Then leave him stretch'd upon the ling'ring rack , Amidst the camp to howl his life away . Mus . Should we before the troops ...
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... king to negligence of danger . Perhaps the clouds of dark conspiracy Now roll full fraught with thunder o'er your head . Twice since the morning rose I saw the Bassa , Like a fell adder swelling in a brake , Beneath the covert of this ...
... king to negligence of danger . Perhaps the clouds of dark conspiracy Now roll full fraught with thunder o'er your head . Twice since the morning rose I saw the Bassa , Like a fell adder swelling in a brake , Beneath the covert of this ...
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