The British Theatre: Or, A Collection of Plays, which are Acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury Lane, Convent Gardin, Haymarket, and Lyceum, Volume 6Mrs. Inchbald Hurst, Robinson, 1824 |
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... natural dialogues , and some pleasing scenes ; but they are ob- tained at the expence of much incongruity . To re- mark the folly of the fiction , the absurdity of the conduct , the confusion of the names , and manners of different ...
... natural dialogues , and some pleasing scenes ; but they are ob- tained at the expence of much incongruity . To re- mark the folly of the fiction , the absurdity of the conduct , the confusion of the names , and manners of different ...
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... nature : Those , she has , Will stupify , and dull the sense a while ; But there is No danger in what show of death it makes , More than the locking up the spirits a time , To be more fresh , reviving . She is fool'd With a most false ...
... nature : Those , she has , Will stupify , and dull the sense a while ; But there is No danger in what show of death it makes , More than the locking up the spirits a time , To be more fresh , reviving . She is fool'd With a most false ...
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... nature given them eyes To see this vaulted arch , and the rich crop Of sea and land , which can distinguish ' twixt The fiery orbs above , and the twinn'd stones Upon the number'd beach ? and can we not Partition make ' Twixt fair and ...
... nature given them eyes To see this vaulted arch , and the rich crop Of sea and land , which can distinguish ' twixt The fiery orbs above , and the twinn'd stones Upon the number'd beach ? and can we not Partition make ' Twixt fair and ...
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... natural notes about her body , Above ten thousand meaner moveables Would testify , to enrich mine inventory . O sleep , thou ape of death , lie dull upon her ! And be her sense but as a monument , Thus in a chapel lying ! -Come off ...
... natural notes about her body , Above ten thousand meaner moveables Would testify , to enrich mine inventory . O sleep , thou ape of death , lie dull upon her ! And be her sense but as a monument , Thus in a chapel lying ! -Come off ...
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... nature , dumb ; outwent her , Motion and breath left out . Post . This is a thing , Which you might from relation likewise reap ; Being , as it is , much spoke of . Iach . The roof o ' the chamber With golden cherubims is fretted . Post ...
... nature , dumb ; outwent her , Motion and breath left out . Post . This is a thing , Which you might from relation likewise reap ; Being , as it is , much spoke of . Iach . The roof o ' the chamber With golden cherubims is fretted . Post ...
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ARVIRAGUS Aufidius bear beseech better blood Brutus Cæs Cæsar call'd cardinal Casca Cassius Cham Cloten COMINIUS Cord Cordelia Coriolanus Cran Crom Cromwell CYMBELINE daughter death Decius dost doth Drums duke Edgar Edmund Enter Exeunt Exit eyes father fear give Glost GLOSTER gods grace GUIDERIUS hand hath hear heart Heaven honour Iach IACHIMO Imog Imogen Julius Cæsar Kent KING LEAR lady leave LICTORS live LOCRINE look lord LUCIUS madam Mark Antony master MENENIUS METELLUS never night noble on't pardon peace PINDARUS Pisanio poor Post Posthumus pr'ythee pray Queen Regan revenge Roman Rome SCENE SOLDIERS speak stand sword tell thee there's thine thing thou art thou hast TITINIUS traitor Trebonius Trumpets twas villain voice Volscians weep WOLSEY word
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Page 41 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Page 36 - You say you are a better soldier: Let it appear so; make your vaunting true, And it shall please me well: for mine own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men. Cas. You wrong me every way; you wrong me, Brutus; I said, an elder soldier, not a better: Did I say "better"?
Page 27 - But yesterday, the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world ; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Page 1 - I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 70 - Let me have men about me that are fat ; Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights. Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; He thinks too much : such men are dangerous.
Page 24 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Page 26 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; •> I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; \ So let it be with Caesar.
Page 26 - Yet Brutus says, he was ambitious ; And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause ; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him...
Page 30 - And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts : I am no orator, as Brutus is ; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend ; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him : For I have neither wit...
Page 26 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day comes a frost, a killing frost ; And,— when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.