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... reason to it . Think awhile , For you are ( I must weep , when I speak that ) Almost besides yourself . " Amin . Oh , my soft temper ! So many sweet words from thy sister's mouth , I am afraid , would make me take her To embrace , and ...
... reason to it . Think awhile , For you are ( I must weep , when I speak that ) Almost besides yourself . " Amin . Oh , my soft temper ! So many sweet words from thy sister's mouth , I am afraid , would make me take her To embrace , and ...
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... reason ? Phi . Oh , but thou dost not know What ' tis to die . Bel . Yes , I do know , my lord : ' Tis less than to be born ; a lasting sleep , A quiet resting from all jealousy ; A thing we all pursue . I know besides , It is but ...
... reason ? Phi . Oh , but thou dost not know What ' tis to die . Bel . Yes , I do know , my lord : ' Tis less than to be born ; a lasting sleep , A quiet resting from all jealousy ; A thing we all pursue . I know besides , It is but ...
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... reason , sooner than this lady . Meg . By this good light , he bears it hand- somely . Phi . This lady ? I will sooner trust the wind With feathers , or the troubled sea with pearl , Than her with any thing . Believe her not ! Why ...
... reason , sooner than this lady . Meg . By this good light , he bears it hand- somely . Phi . This lady ? I will sooner trust the wind With feathers , or the troubled sea with pearl , Than her with any thing . Believe her not ! Why ...
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... Reason may warrant me to doubt and fear , What seeds soever I sow in these wars Of noble courage , his determinate will May blast , and give my harvest to another , That ne'er toiled for it . Timag . Prithee , do not nourish These ...
... Reason may warrant me to doubt and fear , What seeds soever I sow in these wars Of noble courage , his determinate will May blast , and give my harvest to another , That ne'er toiled for it . Timag . Prithee , do not nourish These ...
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... reason that to hold a place In council , which was once esteemed an honour , And a reward for virtue , hath quite lost Lustre and reputation , and is made A mercenary purchase . Timag . He speaks home . Leost . And to the purpose ...
... reason that to hold a place In council , which was once esteemed an honour , And a reward for virtue , hath quite lost Lustre and reputation , and is made A mercenary purchase . Timag . He speaks home . Leost . And to the purpose ...
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Acast Alic Amin arms art thou Arvida Bajazet bear behold bless blood bosom brave breast Cæsar Cali Cast Castalio Cato Ceph Cleo Cleon Cleora curse danger dare Daugh dear death DIPHILUS dost thou dreadful e'er Enter Eumenes Exeunt Exit eyes fair faith fate father fear fortune give gods grief guard hand happy hate hear heart Heaven Hengo honour hope Juba king Leosthenes live look lord Lysimachus madam Monimia ne'er Nennius never night noble o'er Palmira passion peace Philaster Photinus pity Pompey prince Ptol Pyrrhus rage revenge ruin SCENE scorn shame shew slave soldier sorrow soul speak sword Syphax Tamerlane tears tell thee thine thou art thou hast thought Twas twill Vent villain virtue vows weep wilt wish wretch wrong Zaph Zaphna Zara
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Page 358 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Page 358 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 346 - Twill never be too late To sue for chains, and own a conqueror. Why should Rome fall a moment ere her time ? No, let us draw her term of freedom out In its full length, and spin it to the last, So shall we gain still one day's liberty: And let me perish, but, in Cato's judgment, A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Page 248 - Oh woman ! lovely woman ! Nature made thee To temper man : we had been brutes without you ! Angels are painted fair to look like you : There's in you all, that we believe of" heaven ; Amazing brightness, purity and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love.
Page 210 - Heaven has but Our sorrow for our sins ; and then delights To pardon erring man : Sweet mercy seems Its darling attribute, which limits justice ; . • As if there were degrees in infinite, And infinite would rather want perfection,. * Than punish to extent, Ant.
Page 10 - Do my face (If thou had'st ever feeling of a sorrow) Thus, thus, Antiphila : strive to make me look Like Sorrow's monument ; and the trees about me, Let them be dry and leafless ; let the rocks Groan with continual surges ; and behind me, Make all a desolation.
Page 10 - To show a soul so full of misery As this sad lady's was. Do it by me, Do it again by me, the lost Aspatia ; And you shall find all true but the wild island. Suppose I stand upon the sea-beach now...
Page 191 - Nay, stop not. Ant. Antony, — Well, thou wilt have it, — like a coward, fled, Fled while his soldiers fought ; fled first, Ventidius. Thou long'st to curse me, and I give thee leave. I know thou cam'st prepared to rail. Vent. I did.
Page 276 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart.
Page 33 - 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...