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... wound me up so high , I swell'd with glory : Shall we have peace ? for now I love these Romans . Car . Thy love and hate are both unwise ones , lady . Bond . Your reason ? Is not peace the end C iij A8 1 . 23 BONDUCA . Gar. I fled too, ...
... wound me up so high , I swell'd with glory : Shall we have peace ? for now I love these Romans . Car . Thy love and hate are both unwise ones , lady . Bond . Your reason ? Is not peace the end C iij A8 1 . 23 BONDUCA . Gar. I fled too, ...
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... hate me : ' Would I were dead ! Car . Thou know'st I love thee dearly . Hengo . Did I e'er shrink yet , uncle ? Were I a man now , I should be angry with you . DRUSIUS , REGULUS , and Soldiers enter , with PE- NIUS's hearse ; drum and ...
... hate me : ' Would I were dead ! Car . Thou know'st I love thee dearly . Hengo . Did I e'er shrink yet , uncle ? Were I a man now , I should be angry with you . DRUSIUS , REGULUS , and Soldiers enter , with PE- NIUS's hearse ; drum and ...
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... hates , with gen'rous warmth , As nature prompts , that dares he to avow , And lets each passion stand confess'd to view Such too is Ariana ; bold and open She kindly gives instructions to her foe , To marr her best designs . Zel . Her ...
... hates , with gen'rous warmth , As nature prompts , that dares he to avow , And lets each passion stand confess'd to view Such too is Ariana ; bold and open She kindly gives instructions to her foe , To marr her best designs . Zel . Her ...
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... hate at length the object it adores , And stung to madness - no ! inhuman fair , You still must be , in all vicissitudes , In all the scenes misfortune has in store , You still must be the sov'reign of my soul . But for the favour'd ...
... hate at length the object it adores , And stung to madness - no ! inhuman fair , You still must be , in all vicissitudes , In all the scenes misfortune has in store , You still must be the sov'reign of my soul . But for the favour'd ...
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... hate the light , detest myself , Traitor to nature , -traitor to my love ! And yet , Zopiron , yet I am not plung'd So far in guilt , but thou may'st pity me . Heaven , I attest - yes you can witness , gods ! I meant to perish with her ...
... hate the light , detest myself , Traitor to nature , -traitor to my love ! And yet , Zopiron , yet I am not plung'd So far in guilt , but thou may'st pity me . Heaven , I attest - yes you can witness , gods ! I meant to perish with her ...
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Page 44 - 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.
Page 83 - I hate a lover that can dare to think he draws a moment's air, independent on the bounty of his mistress. There is not so impudent a thing in nature, as the saucy look of an assured man, confident of success. The pedantic arrogance of a very husband has not so pragmatical an air. Ah! I'll never marry, unless I am first made sure of my will and pleasure.
Page 56 - Rowland will not fail to come? or will he not fail when he does come? Will he be importunate, Foible, and push? For if he should not be importunate, I shall never break decorums:— I shall die with confusion, if I am forced to advance.— Oh no, I can never advance!--! shall swoon if he should expect advances. No, I hope Sir Rowland is better bred than to put a lady to the necessity of breaking her forms. I won't be too coy, neither. — I won't give him despair— but a little disdain is not .....
Page 84 - Let us never visit together, nor go to a play together, but let us be very strange and well bred. Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while, and as well bred as if we were not married at all.
Page 85 - I please ; and choose conversation with regard only to my own taste; to have no obligation upon me to converse with wits that I don't like, because they are your acquaintance ; or to be intimate with fools, because they may be your relations.
Page x - No, I'll give you your revenge another time, when you are not so indifferent ; you are thinking of something else now, and play too negligently; the coldness of a losing gamester lessens the pleasure of the winner. I'd no more play with a man that slighted his ill fortune, than I'd make love to a woman who undervalued the loss of her reputation.
Page 101 - Out of my house, out of my house, thou viper! thou serpent, that I have fostered! thou bosom traitress, that I raised from nothing!— Begone! begone! begone!— go! go!— That I took from washing of old gauze and weaving of dead hair, with a bleak blue nose over a chafing-dish of starved embers, and dining behind a traverse rag, in a shop no bigger than a bird-cage !— Go, go!
Page 35 - Fain. And wherefore do you hate him? He is insensible, and your resentment follows his neglect. An instance! The injuries you have done him are a proof: your interposing in his love. What cause had you to make discoveries of his pretended passion?
Page 105 - I'll vouch anything for your ladiship's service, be what it will. SCENE IV Mrs. FAINALL, Lady WISHFORT, MAEWOOD. Lady. 0 my dear friend, how can I enumerate the benefits that I have received from your goodness? To you I owe the timely discovery of the false vows of Mirabell; to you I owe the detection of the impostor Sir Rowland. And now you are become an intercessor with my son-in-law, to save the honour of my house, and compound for the frailties of my daughter. Well, friend, you are enough to...
Page 63 - I'll take my death, I think you are handsomer, and within a year or two as young. If you could but stay for me, I should overtake you — but that cannot be.