 | Nicholas Rowe - 1797 - 452 pages
...Sir, of my resentment. When we contend again, our strife is mortal. [Extunt. ACT V. SCENE I. fnter DoUGLAS. Douglas. THIS is the place, the centre of...wood. How sweet and solemn is this midnight scene ! The silver moon, unclouded, holds her way DoUGLAS.' 75 Thro' skies where I could count each little... | |
 | English drama - 1804 - 486 pages
...our strife is mortal. [Eieuni. VOL. T. BRITISH DRAMA. ACT V. SCENE L— A Grace. Enter DOUGLAS. Doug. THIS is the place, the centre of the grove; Here stands...wood. How sweet and solemn is this midnight scene ! The silver moon, unclouded, holds her way Through skies where Í could count each little star. The... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 404 pages
...FIFTH. SCENE I. A Wood. Enter DOUGLAS. Doug. This is the place, the centre of the grove; Here siands the oak, the monarch of the wood. How sweet and solemn is the midnight scene ! The silver moon, unclouded holds her way Through skies, where I could count each... | |
 | English drama - 1811 - 620 pages
...again, our strife is mortal. [Kxeifnt. VOL. ir. 3 c ACTV. SCENE I.— A Grove. Enter DOUGLAS. Doug. This is the place, the centre of the grove; Here stands...wood. How sweet and solemn is this midnight scene ! The silver moon, unclouded, holds her way Through skies where I could count each little star. The... | |
 | British drama - 1811 - 624 pages
...itrife is mortal. [Exeunt. -VOL. IÍ. To gall DOUGLAS. ACT V. SCENE I.— AC rote. Enter DOUGLAS. Doug. This is the place, the centre of the grove; Here stands...wood. How sweet and solemn is this midnight scene ! The silver moon, unclouded, holds her way Through skies where I could count each little star. The... | |
 | James Plumptre - English drama - 1812 - 480 pages
...out] 'Tis grating to associate with a villain. [Exeunt. ACT V. SCENE, A Wood. Enter DOUGLAS. Doug. This is the place, the centre of the grove. Here stands...wood. How sweet and solemn is this mid-night scene \ The silver moon, unclouded, holds her way Thro' skies where I could count each little star. The fanning... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...Douglas's Soliloquy in the ¡food, \caitingfor Lady Randolph, after he teiu knoten to be her Son. HOME. THIS is the place, the centre of the grove. Here stands the oak, the monarch of the wood ! How sweet »nd solemn is this midnight scone! The silver moon, unclouded, holds her way Thro' skies, where I... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...Buried', my Douglas, in thy bloody grave'. Tragedy of Douglas. 2. — Douglas's Soliloquy in the Wood. THIS is the place, the centre of the grove, Here stands...wood.— How sweet, and solemn, is this midnight scene ! The silver moon, unclouded, holds her way Through skies, where I could count each little star : The... | |
 | John Home - Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 - 1822 - 420 pages
...When we contend again, our strife is mortal. [Exeunt. ACT V. SCENE,— The Wood. Enter DOUGLAS. Doug. This is the place, the centre of the grove; Here stands...wood. How sweet and solemn is this mid-night scene ! The silver moon, unclouded, holds her way Through skies where I could count each little star. The... | |
 | 1823 - 696 pages
...poetry. The opening speech of the fifth act of Douglas is a fair specimen of this doubtful school: Thia ply this to the case in Macbeth. Here, as I have said, the r tin- monarch of the wood. How sweet and solemn is this midnight . scene ! The silver moon, unclouded,... | |
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Through skies, where I could count each little star. The fanning west wind scarcely stirs the leaves ; The river, rushing o'er its pebbled bed, Imposes silence, with a stilly sound. In such a place as this, at such an hour, If ancestry... 
