Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical and Critical : Printed from the Acting Copies, as Performed at the Theatres-royal, London, Volume 11John Cumberland, 1826 |
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... pray'r To heaven , that I may one day have the pow'r To pay the debt I owe him . But stay - stay- I brought a message to you from the king . Aruns . Thank the gods , then , for thy good memory , fool ! Luc . The king your father sends ...
... pray'r To heaven , that I may one day have the pow'r To pay the debt I owe him . But stay - stay- I brought a message to you from the king . Aruns . Thank the gods , then , for thy good memory , fool ! Luc . The king your father sends ...
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... thou dost love me , pray the gods To keep me what I am . Where all are slaves , None but the fool is happy . Ti . We are Romans- Not slaves- Br . Not B 3 SCENE 111. ] 15 BRUTUS . A little longer yet support me, patience! ...
... thou dost love me , pray the gods To keep me what I am . Where all are slaves , None but the fool is happy . Ti . We are Romans- Not slaves- Br . Not B 3 SCENE 111. ] 15 BRUTUS . A little longer yet support me, patience! ...
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... prayer ? Tar . I go to Fortune's temple , to suspend Upon the votive shrine this golden crown . While incense fills the fane , and holy hymns Are chaunted for my brother's safe return What shall I ask for Titus ? Ti . Though the goddess ...
... prayer ? Tar . I go to Fortune's temple , to suspend Upon the votive shrine this golden crown . While incense fills the fane , and holy hymns Are chaunted for my brother's safe return What shall I ask for Titus ? Ti . Though the goddess ...
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... pray , good sir , may I not praise the wife Of this same testy , froward husband here , But on his cheek offençe must quivering sit , And dream'd of insult ? the abortive child Of misconstruction , whose near - sighted eye Discerns not ...
... pray , good sir , may I not praise the wife Of this same testy , froward husband here , But on his cheek offençe must quivering sit , And dream'd of insult ? the abortive child Of misconstruction , whose near - sighted eye Discerns not ...
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... pray prepare it : We must be at the camp ere morning dawn . An hour or two will be the utmost limit Allow'd us here . [ Crosses to R. Luc . With all the speed I can 1 I'll play the caterer ; though I am tempted , Would that delay your ...
... pray prepare it : We must be at the camp ere morning dawn . An hour or two will be the utmost limit Allow'd us here . [ Crosses to R. Luc . With all the speed I can 1 I'll play the caterer ; though I am tempted , Would that delay your ...
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Page 38 - Westmoreland, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made, And crowns for convoy put into his purse: We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us.
Page 36 - And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practice As full of labour as a wise man's art; For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fallen, quite taint their wit.
Page 8 - Hear him but reason in divinity, And, all-admiring, with an inward wish You would desire the king were made a prelate : Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs, You would say, it hath been...
Page 38 - This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...
Page 5 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music : Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
Page 21 - Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night; Halloo your name to the reverberate hills And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out 'Olivia!
Page 20 - A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child ; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide : for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers...
Page 11 - If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die. That strain again; it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Page 29 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Page 38 - To-morrow is saint Crispian :' Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.' Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot, But he'll remember with advantages What feats he did that day...