Miscellaneous Plays, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1804 - 438 pages |
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... ELIZABETH . COUNTESS ZATERLOO , mother to Zaterloo . MIRA , a courtezan . ALICE , friend to Mira . SCENE , Germany , near the frontiers of Poland and Silefia . RAYNE R. ACT I. SCENE I. A noife of voices PERSONS OF THE DRAMA. ...
... ELIZABETH . COUNTESS ZATERLOO , mother to Zaterloo . MIRA , a courtezan . ALICE , friend to Mira . SCENE , Germany , near the frontiers of Poland and Silefia . RAYNE R. ACT I. SCENE I. A noife of voices PERSONS OF THE DRAMA. ...
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Joanna Baillie. RAYNE R. ACT I. SCENE I. A noife of voices and unruly merriment is heard , whilst the curtain draws up , and dif- covers Count Zaterloo , Bernard , Sebaftian , and others of their band , feated round a table with wine ...
Joanna Baillie. RAYNE R. ACT I. SCENE I. A noife of voices and unruly merriment is heard , whilst the curtain draws up , and dif- covers Count Zaterloo , Bernard , Sebaftian , and others of their band , feated round a table with wine ...
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... voice heard without . ) But hark ! a voice without ! It is my mother's . Secure the lettic'd door . Plague on her kindness To haunt me here ! I have forgot my promife . ( To Bernard . ) Make faft the lettic'd door and answer for me ...
... voice heard without . ) But hark ! a voice without ! It is my mother's . Secure the lettic'd door . Plague on her kindness To haunt me here ! I have forgot my promife . ( To Bernard . ) Make faft the lettic'd door and answer for me ...
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... voice and bustling heard without . ) What's this comes next to plague us ? ' Tis Mira's voice . BERNARD . COUNT ZATERLO0 . Haft thou not fent to say , that urgent bus'nefs Detains me from her banquet ? BERNARD . I have ; I fent to her a ...
... voice and bustling heard without . ) What's this comes next to plague us ? ' Tis Mira's voice . BERNARD . COUNT ZATERLO0 . Haft thou not fent to say , that urgent bus'nefs Detains me from her banquet ? BERNARD . I have ; I fent to her a ...
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... voices , From rocky precipice or hollow cave , ' Midft the confused found of rustling leaves , And creaking boughs , and cries of nightly birds , Returning feeming answer ! COUNT ZATERLOO . Rayner , where ftandeft thou ? RAYNER . Here ...
... voices , From rocky precipice or hollow cave , ' Midft the confused found of rustling leaves , And creaking boughs , and cries of nightly birds , Returning feeming answer ! COUNT ZATERLOO . Rayner , where ftandeft thou ? RAYNER . Here ...
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Page 439 - THE MINSTRELSY OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER; consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland ; with a few of a modern Date, founded on local Tradition. With an Introduction, and Notes by the Editor, WALTER SCOTT, Esq.