The mourning bride. The way of the world. The judgment of Paris. Semele. Poems on several occasionsT. Lowndes, T. Caslon, T. Davies, W. Nicoll, S. Bladon and R. Snagg, 1774 |
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... Arms with Victory , And the rich Spoil of all the Field , and you , The Glory of the whole , were made the Prey Of his Succefs ; that then , in fpite of Hate , Revenge , and that Hereditary Feud Between Valentia's and Granada's Kings ...
... Arms with Victory , And the rich Spoil of all the Field , and you , The Glory of the whole , were made the Prey Of his Succefs ; that then , in fpite of Hate , Revenge , and that Hereditary Feud Between Valentia's and Granada's Kings ...
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... arm'd with Ice around my Heart , Not to be warm'd with Words , or idle Eloquence . SCENE III . GONSALEZ , ALMERIA , LEONORA . Gonf . Be ev'ry Day of your long Life like this . The Sun , bright Conqueft , and your brighter eyes , Have ...
... arm'd with Ice around my Heart , Not to be warm'd with Words , or idle Eloquence . SCENE III . GONSALEZ , ALMERIA , LEONORA . Gonf . Be ev'ry Day of your long Life like this . The Sun , bright Conqueft , and your brighter eyes , Have ...
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... Arms , as thou art faid to be , So hardly can endure Captivity , The common Chance of War ? Of . Because Captivity Has robb'd me of a dear and juft Revenge . K. I understand not that . Of . I would not have you . Za . That Gallant Moor ...
... Arms , as thou art faid to be , So hardly can endure Captivity , The common Chance of War ? Of . Because Captivity Has robb'd me of a dear and juft Revenge . K. I understand not that . Of . I would not have you . Za . That Gallant Moor ...
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... Arms , and prefs me clofe To his cold clayie Breaft : My father then Will ceafe his Tyranny ; and Garcia too Will fly my pale Deformity with Loathing . My Soul , enlarg'd from its vile Bonds , will mount , And range the starry Orbs ...
... Arms , and prefs me clofe To his cold clayie Breaft : My father then Will ceafe his Tyranny ; and Garcia too Will fly my pale Deformity with Loathing . My Soul , enlarg'd from its vile Bonds , will mount , And range the starry Orbs ...
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... Arms , and bear me hence , Back to the Bottom of the boundless Deep , To Seas beneath , where thou fo long haft dwelt . O how haft thou return'd ? How haft thou charm'd The Wildness of the Waves and Rocks to this ? That thus relenting ...
... Arms , and bear me hence , Back to the Bottom of the boundless Deep , To Seas beneath , where thou fo long haft dwelt . O how haft thou return'd ? How haft thou charm'd The Wildness of the Waves and Rocks to this ? That thus relenting ...
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Almeria Alphonfo Amyntas Arms ATHAMA behold Bleffings Breaft CADMUS Caufe Charms cou'd dear Death Defire doft thou ev'ry Eyes Face facred fafe faid Fain Fainall falfe fame Fate fave fear feem feen fhall fhew fhou'd fing firft flain foft Foible fome foon Friend ftand ftill fuch fure fweet Gonf Grief Hafte hear Heart Heav'n Heli himſelf Honour Hufband Jove JUNO JUPITER King Lady WISHFORT laft lefs loft Love Lover Lyre Madam Marwood Mill Millamant Mirabell moft moſt mourn Mufe Mufick muft muſt myſelf Numbers Nymph o'er Ofmyn Ovid Paffion Perfon Petulant Pindar pleafing pleaſe Pleaſure Pow'r prefent Priam Reft rife SCENE SEMELE Senfe ſhall ſhe Sir Rowland Sir Wil Sir Wilfull Song ſpeak thee thefe theſe Thing thofe thoſe thought thro Verfes weep whofe Wife Witw Witwoud wou'd Zara
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Page 102 - I'll tell thee, Fainall, she once used me with that insolence that in revenge I took her to pieces, sifted her, and separated her failings: I studied 'em and got 'em by rote. The catalogue was so large that I was not without hopes, one day or other, to hate her heartily. To which end I so used myself to think of 'em, that at length, contrary...
Page 159 - I'll fly, and be followed to the last moment. Though I am upon the very verge of matrimony, I expect you should solicit me as much as if I were wavering at the grate of a monastery, with one foot over the threshold. I'll be solicited to the very last, nay, and afterwards.
Page 27 - Whistling thro' hollows of this vaulted aisle; We'll listenLeonora. Hark! Almeria. No, all is hush'd and still as death, — Tis dreadful! How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity!
Page 160 - Sunday in a new chariot, to provoke eyes and whispers; and then never to be seen there together again; as if we were proud of one another the first week, and ashamed of one another ever after. Let us never visit together, nor go to a play together, but let us be very strange...
Page 181 - Oh, she would have swooned at the sight or name of an obscene play-book !— and can I think, after all this, that my daughter can be naught? What, a whore? and thought it excommunication to set her foot within the door of a playhouse! O dear friend, I can't believe it, no, no! As she says, let him prove it, let him prove it.
Page 125 - I ask your pardon for that —one's cruelty is one's power; and when one parts with one's cruelty, one parts with one's power; and when one has parted with that, I fancy one's old and ugly.
Page 176 - Pray do but hear me, madam; he could not marry your ladyship, madam. No indeed, his marriage was to have been void in law; for he was married to me first, to secure your ladyship. He could not have bedded your ladyship, for if he had consummated with your ladyship, he must have run the risk of the law, and been put upon his clergy.
Page 101 - I am of another opinion. The greater the coxcomb, always the more the scandal: for a woman who is not a fool can have but one reason for associating with a man who is one.
Page 147 - This is a vile Dog, I see that already. No Offence ! Ha, ha, ha, to him ; to him, Petulant, smoke him.
Page 28 - Looking tranquillity ! it strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.