Bell's British Theatre,: Consisting of the Most Esteemed English Plays ...John Bell, near Exeter Exchange, in the Strand, and C. Etherington, at York, 1778 |
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... Attended still thy step , and fav'd my friend For better days . What cannot patience do ? A great defign is feldom fnatch'd at once ; ' Tis patience heaves it on . From savage nature ' Tis patience that has built up human life , The ...
... Attended still thy step , and fav'd my friend For better days . What cannot patience do ? A great defign is feldom fnatch'd at once ; ' Tis patience heaves it on . From savage nature ' Tis patience that has built up human life , The ...
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... attend here . Befides , it was loudly published , that no officer fhould forbid any gentleman that defired to attend and hear . Cler . Can you guess the caufe ? Dion . Sir , it is plain , about the Spanish Prince , that's Come to marry ...
... attend here . Befides , it was loudly published , that no officer fhould forbid any gentleman that defired to attend and hear . Cler . Can you guess the caufe ? Dion . Sir , it is plain , about the Spanish Prince , that's Come to marry ...
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... the Princefs would intreat your prefent company . Phi . Kifs her fair hand , and say , I will attend her . Dion . Do you know what you do ? Phi . Yes ; go to fee a woman . Phia 16 PHIL A S TE R. Did he give fire to! How he fhook the ...
... the Princefs would intreat your prefent company . Phi . Kifs her fair hand , and say , I will attend her . Dion . Do you know what you do ? Phi . Yes ; go to fee a woman . Phia 16 PHIL A S TE R. Did he give fire to! How he fhook the ...
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... attend the Princess . Bel . I am gone . But fince I am to part with you , my Lord , And none knows whether I fhall live to do More fervice for you , take this little prayer : Heav'n blefs your loves , your fights , all your defigns ...
... attend the Princess . Bel . I am gone . But fince I am to part with you , my Lord , And none knows whether I fhall live to do More fervice for you , take this little prayer : Heav'n blefs your loves , your fights , all your defigns ...
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... attend me too ; ' Tis thy lord's bufinefs haftes me thus . Away . [ Exeunt . SCENE changes to another Apartment in the Palace . Enter Megra and Pharamond . Meg . What then am I ? A poor neglected stale ! Have I then been an idle toying ...
... attend me too ; ' Tis thy lord's bufinefs haftes me thus . Away . [ Exeunt . SCENE changes to another Apartment in the Palace . Enter Megra and Pharamond . Meg . What then am I ? A poor neglected stale ! Have I then been an idle toying ...
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Page 47 - I could not stay with you, I made a vow, By all the most religious things a maid Could call together, never to be known...
Page 43 - I have wrong'd thee, and as much of joy That I repent it, issue from mine eyes; Let them appease thee. Take thy right ; take her ; She is thy right too; and forget to urge My vexed soul with that I did before. PHI.
Page 11 - I shall be willing, if not apt, to learn : Age and experience will adorn my mind With larger knowledge ; and if I have done A wilful fault, think me not past all hope For once.
Page 21 - If you do hate, you could not curse me worse ; The gods have not a punishment in store Greater for me than is your hate. Phi. Fie, fie, So young and so dissembling!
Page 26 - And worn so by you ; how that foolish man, That reads the story of a woman's face And dies believing it, is lost for ever ; How all the good you have is but a shadow, I...
Page 26 - Now you may take that little right I have To this poor kingdom. Give it to your joy; For I have no joy in it.
Page 8 - Of which he borrow'd some to quench his thirst, And paid the nymph again as much in tears. A garland lay him by, made by himself, Of many several flowers, bred in the...
Page 38 - Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away. Should I outlive you, I should then outlive Virtue and honour; and when that day comes, If ever I shall close these eyes but once, May I live spotted for my perjury, And waste my limbs to nothing!
Page 35 - Stay, sir! what are you? BEL. A wretched creature, wounded in these woods By beasts. Relieve me, if your names be men, Or I shall perish. DION. This is he, my lord, Upon my soul, that hurt her. 'Tis the boy, That wicked boy, that serv'd her.