The Road to Ruin: Comedy in Five ActsLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1808 - 96 pages |
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The Road to Ruin: A Comedy. as It Is Acted at the Theatre Royal, Covent ... THOMAS. HOLCROFT No preview available - 2018 |
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Amberg arms art thou Begone Bern Bertha bless Char Chev CHEVERIL child Clem Comedy Count Countess damned dare daugh daughter dear deed door Dorn Dover Street dreadful Durimel e'en Enfield Enter Exeunt Exit eyes father fear feel fool Freb FREBERG gentleman give Gold Goldfinch Grime Haller hand happy HARRY DORNTON hast hear heard heart Heaven honour husband Item Jacob Jane Jenny JEROME Joanna Lennox look lord madam MANUEL marry master MELFORT Milf Milford MONFORT Monk Mordent never noble Offi pardon poor pray Pshaw racter Rezenvelt ruin SCENE servant Silky sister smile Smith Solomon Soph soul speak Stein Steinfort Stra STRANGER Sulky sure tell THEATRE ROYAL thee ther thing thought thousand pounds to-morrow VALCOUR wife wish woman wretched young Zounds
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Page 25 - 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.
Page 37 - Twas that which drove me hither. I could not bear to meet thine eye again. Jane. Alas ! that, tempted by a sister's tears, I ever left thy house ! These few past months, These absent months, have brought us all this woe.
Page 16 - 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 90 - I've known her long : of worth most excellent ; But in the day of woe, she ever rose Upon the mind with added majesty, As the dark mountain more sublimely tow'rs Mantled in clouds and storm.
Page 70 - O no, for twice it call'd, so loudly call'd, With horrid strength, beyond the pitch of nature ; And Murder ! murder ! was the dreadful cry; A third time it return'd with feeble strength, But o'the sudden ceas'd, as tho...
Page 38 - From dev'lish pride, which now derives a bliss In seeing me thus fetter'd, sham'd, subjected With the vile favour of his poor forbearance; Whilst he securely sits with gibing brow And basely...
Page 14 - That gods might envy. Little time so spent Doth far outvalue all our life beside. This is indeed our life, our waking life, The rest dull breathing sleep.
Page 49 - Then let me say, that, with a grateful mind, I do receive these tokens of good will ; And must regret that, in my wayward moods, I have too oft forgot the due regard Your rank and talents claim.
Page 9 - I did him some slight service, o' the sudden" He overpower'd me with his grateful thanks; And would not be restrain 'd from pressing on me A noble recompense. I understood His o'erstrain'd gratitude and bounty well, And took it as he meant. MAN. Tis often thus. I would have left him many years ago, But that with all his faults there sometimes come Such bursts of natural goodness from his heart, As might engage a harder churl than I To serve him still. — And then his sister too, A noble dame, who...
Page 95 - Tis Rezenvelt I mean. Take thou this charge : 'Tis meet, that with his noble ancestors He lie entomb'd in honourable state. And now I have a sad request to make, Nor will these holy sisters scorn my boon ; That I, within these sacred cloister walls, May raise a humble, nameless tomb to him, Who, but for one dark passion, one dire deed, Had claim'da record of as noble •worth, As e'er enrich'd the sculptur'd pedestal.