The Works of His Grace George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: Containing His Plays and Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, with Explanatory Notes and Memoirs of the Author ...T. Evans, 1770 |
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... God knows what ; He , for the public , needs would play a game , For which he has been trounc'd by public fame ; And to speak truth , fo he deferv'd to be For his dull clownish fingularity : For when the fashion is to break one's truft ...
... God knows what ; He , for the public , needs would play a game , For which he has been trounc'd by public fame ; And to speak truth , fo he deferv'd to be For his dull clownish fingularity : For when the fashion is to break one's truft ...
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... gods , To part fo calmy with it , and fit ftill ; And fay I might have been ! I tell thee , Thra- fomond , When thou art King , look I be dead and rotten , And my name loft : hear , hear me , Thrafomond , This very ground thou go'ft on ...
... gods , To part fo calmy with it , and fit ftill ; And fay I might have been ! I tell thee , Thra- fomond , When thou art King , look I be dead and rotten , And my name loft : hear , hear me , Thrafomond , This very ground thou go'ft on ...
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... gods-- Phil . I'm dead , Sir , you're my fate : it was not I Said I was wrong'd : I carry all about me My weak ftars lead me to ; all my weak fortunes . Who now , in all this prefence , dares ( that is A man of flesh , and is but mortal ) ...
... gods-- Phil . I'm dead , Sir , you're my fate : it was not I Said I was wrong'd : I carry all about me My weak ftars lead me to ; all my weak fortunes . Who now , in all this prefence , dares ( that is A man of flesh , and is but mortal ) ...
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... gods , and conjure up The rods of vengeance ; th ' abused people , Who like to raging torrents shall swell high , And fo begirt the dens of these male dragons , That thro ' the strongest fafety they shall beg For mercy at your fword's ...
... gods , and conjure up The rods of vengeance ; th ' abused people , Who like to raging torrents shall swell high , And fo begirt the dens of these male dragons , That thro ' the strongest fafety they shall beg For mercy at your fword's ...
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... gods ! that will not have your dooms withstood , Whofe holy wisdom , at this time it is To make the paffion of a feeble mind The way to your great juftice . I obey . Enter Philander . Lady . Here is my lord Philander . Ara . ' Tis well ...
... gods ! that will not have your dooms withstood , Whofe holy wisdom , at this time it is To make the paffion of a feeble mind The way to your great juftice . I obey . Enter Philander . Lady . Here is my lord Philander . Ara . ' Tis well ...
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Page 85 - Alas, my lord, my life is not a thing Worthy your noble thoughts ! 'tis not a life, 'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away.
Page 29 - tis so; and when time is full, That thou hast well discharged this heavy trust, Laid on so weak a one, I will again With joy receive thee ; as I live, I will ! Nay...
Page 75 - Madam, who did it ? Are. Some dishonest wretch ; Alas ! I know him not, and do forgive him. Coun. He's hurt too; he cannot go far ; I made my father's old fox fly about his ears.
Page 235 - ... time make it good in law; I have heard, indeed, that two negatives make an affirmative ; but I never heard before that two nothings ever made anything.
Page 16 - DION. See, how his fancy labours ! Has he not Spoke home and bravely? What a dangerous train Did he give fire to ! How he shook the King, , Made his soul melt within him, and his blood Run into whey ! It stood upon his brow Like a cold winter-dew.
Page 24 - I ask'd him all his story ; He told me that his parents gentle died, Leaving him to the mercy 'of the fields, Which gave him roots; and of the crystal springs, Which did not stop their courses; and the sun, Which still, he...
Page 29 - I am gone. But since I am to part with you, my lord, And none knows whether I shall live to do...
Page 58 - 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. Some far place, Where never womankind durst set her foot For...
Page 42 - Set hills on hills betwixt me and the man That utters this, and I will scale them all, And from the utmost top fall on his neck, Like thunder from a cloud. DION. This is most strange: Sure, he does love her. PHI. I do love fair truth. She is my mistress, and who injures her Draws vengeance from me. Sirs, let go my arms.
Page 81 - Tis not the treasure of all kings in one, The wealth of Tagus, nor the rocks of pearl That pave the court of Neptune, can weigh down That virtue. It was I that hurt the princess. Place me, some god, upon a pyramis* Higher than hills of earth, and lend a voice Loud as your thunder to me, that from thence I may discourse to all the under-world The worth that dwells in him ! PHA.