A Series of Plays, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1821 |
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1st Monk 2d Monk admiration Agnes Amberg amongst arms art thou beauty Bern blessed brave breast character chidden creature cursed dare dark dear dost thou doth Duke DUKE OF MANTUA e'en Enter EXEUNT EXIT eyes face fair fair Lady faith fantastick favour feel fool Freb Freberg Fred Gaur gen'rous gentle Geof give grace hand Harwood hath head hear heard heart heaven honour horrid Humph Isab Jane Lady Loftus look Lord lov'd Ma'am Madam Manuel Mariane Mask methinks mind Miss Eston Miss Withrington Monfort nature never noble o'er Opal pardon passion Pauses play pray Rezenvelt Rosinberg Royston SCENE servant Sir Loft smile soldiers soul speak stage tell thee thine thing thou art thou hast thou wilt thought thro tragedy uncle Valt Vict Victoria voice Waterlan whilst woman
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Page 121 - The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
Page 314 - Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world, But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them ! There are, who, in the path of social life, Do bask their spotted skins in fortune's sun, And sting the soul — Ay, till its healthful frame Is chang'd to secret, fest'ring, sore disease, So deadly is the wound.
Page 337 - twill haunt me still; Jane. Ah! say not so, for I will haunt thee too; And be to it so close an adversary, That, though I wrestle darkling with the fiend, I shall o'ercome it. De Mon.
Page 324 - PAGE. Madam, there is a Lady in your hall, Who begs to be admitted to your presence. LADY. Is it not one of our invited friends? PAGE. No, far unlike to them; it is a stranger. LADY. How looks her countenance? PAGE. So queenly, so commanding, and so noble, I shrunk at first in awe; but when she smil'd, For so she did to see me thus abash'd, Methought I could have compass 'd sea and land To do her bidding.
Page 98 - Tis ever thus when favours are denied ; All had been granted but the thing we beg ; And still some great unlikely substitute, Your life, your soul, your all of earthly good, Is proffer'd in the room of one small boon.
Page 354 - De Mon. He is too old to revel with the gay. Freb. But not too old is he to honour virtue. I shall partake of it with open soul ; For, on my honest faith, of living men I know not one, for talents, honour, worth, That I should rank superior to Rezenvelt.
Page 304 - As turns e'en the offence into a favour. Man. Yes, some indeed do so : so will not he : He'd rather die than such confession make. Jer. Ay, thou art right ; for now I call to mind That once he wrong'd me with unjust suspicion, When first he came to lodge beneath my roof; And when it so fell out that I was prov'd Most guiltless of the fault, I truly thought He would have made profession of regret. But silent, haughty, and ungraciously He bore himself as one offended still.
Page 328 - Methinks unknown, I e'en might speak to him, And gently prove the temper of his mind ; But for the means I must become your debtor. (To Lady.) Lady. Who waits ? (Enter her Woman.) Attend this lady to my wardrobe, And do what she commands you. [EXEUNT Jane and Waiting-woman.
Page 337 - Let it pass, my brother. I'll stay by thee ; I'll cheer thee, comfort thee : Pursue with thee the study of some art, Or nobler science, that compels the mind To steady thought progressive, driving forth All floating, wild, unhappy fantasies ; Till thou, with brow unclouded, smil'st again ; Like one who, from dark visions of the night, When th...
Page 145 - At honour's call, I've led you dauntless on; Nor do I know the man of all your bands, That ever poorly from the trial shrunk, Or yielded to the foe contended space. Am I the meanest then of all my troops, That thus ye think, with base unmanly threats, To move me now? Put up those paltry weapons ; They edgeless are to him who fears them not ; Rocks...