The British Drama: A Collection of the Most Esteemed Tragedies, Comedies, Operas, and Farces in the English Language, Том 2

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M. Polock, 1854
 

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Сторінка 242 - Twere now to be most happy ; for, I fear, My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Сторінка 459 - tis grasped, the faster melts away. Poor reason ! what a wretched aid art thou ! -„• For still, in spite of thee, These two long lovers, soul and body, dread Their final separation. Let me think: What can I say, to save myself from death? No matter what becomes of Cleopatra.
Сторінка 449 - Alex. Yes, a dear one; Your slave the queen Ant. My mistress. Alex. Then your mistress; Your mistress would, she says, have sent her soul, But that you had long since; she humbly begs This ruby bracelet, set with bleeding hearts, The emblems of her own, may bind your arm.
Сторінка 449 - With ardour too heroic, on his foes, Fall down, as she would do, before his feet; Lie in his way, and stop the paths of death. Tell him, this god is not invulnerable; That absent Cleopatra bleeds in him; And, that you may remember her petition, She begs you wear these trifles, as a pawn, Which, at your wished return, she will redeem [Gives jewels to the Commanders.
Сторінка 337 - What, dost thou think I fish without a bait, wench? I bob for fools? He is mine own, I have him. I told thee what would tickle him like a trout ; And, as I cast it, so I caught him daintily, And all he has I have stowed at my devotion.
Сторінка 395 - Nay, you say true in that, it's but a folly to lie. For to speak one thing, and to think just the contrary way, is, as it were, to look one way, and to row another.
Сторінка 404 - Nay, now you do me wrong, for if any interest was considered it was yours, since I thought I wanted more than love to make me worthy of you.
Сторінка 395 - I'll speak truth, though one should always tell a lie to a man; and I don't care, let my father do what he will; I'm too big to be whipped so I'll tell you plainly I don't like you, nor love you at all, nor never will, that's more: so, there's your answer for you; and don't trouble me no more, you ugly thing!
Сторінка 82 - Henceforth I will not wonder we were foes, Since souls that differ so, by nature hate, » And strong antipathy forbids their union. Baj. The noble fire that warms me does indeed Transcend thy coldness. I am pleased we differ, Nor think alike.
Сторінка 445 - O, she has deck'd his ruin with her love, Led him in golden bands to gaudy slaughter, And made perdition pleasing : She has left him The blank of what he was...

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