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Page 97
... ACT I. ISRAELITES sitting on the Banks of the Euphrates . FIRST PROPHET . Recitative . YE captive tribes , that hourly work and weep , Where flows Euphrates murmuring to the deep ; Suspend your woes awhile , the task suspend , And. 97 ...
... ACT I. ISRAELITES sitting on the Banks of the Euphrates . FIRST PROPHET . Recitative . YE captive tribes , that hourly work and weep , Where flows Euphrates murmuring to the deep ; Suspend your woes awhile , the task suspend , And. 97 ...
Page 98
... Recitative . That strain once more ! it bids remembrance rise , And brings my long - lost country to mine eyes . Ye fields of Sharon , dressed in flowery pride ; Ye plains , where Kedron rolls its glassy tide ; Ye hills of Lebanon ...
... Recitative . That strain once more ! it bids remembrance rise , And brings my long - lost country to mine eyes . Ye fields of Sharon , dressed in flowery pride ; Ye plains , where Kedron rolls its glassy tide ; Ye hills of Lebanon ...
Page 99
... Recitative . Yet why complain ? What though by bonds confined , Should bonds repress the vigour of the mind ? Have we not cause for triumph , when we see Ourselves alone from idol - worship free ? Are not , this very morn , those feasts ...
... Recitative . Yet why complain ? What though by bonds confined , Should bonds repress the vigour of the mind ? Have we not cause for triumph , when we see Ourselves alone from idol - worship free ? Are not , this very morn , those feasts ...
Page 100
... Recitative . But hush , my sons ! our tyrant lords are near ; The sounds of barbarous pleasure strike mine ear ; Triumphant music floats along the vale ; Near , nearer still , it gathers on the gale : The growing sound their swift ...
... Recitative . But hush , my sons ! our tyrant lords are near ; The sounds of barbarous pleasure strike mine ear ; Triumphant music floats along the vale ; Near , nearer still , it gathers on the gale : The growing sound their swift ...
Page 101
... Recitative . But whence , when joy should brighten o'er the land , This sullen gloom in Judah's captive band ? Ye sons of Judah , why the lute unstrung ? Or why those harps on yonder willows hung ? Come , take the lyre , and pour the ...
... Recitative . But whence , when joy should brighten o'er the land , This sullen gloom in Judah's captive band ? Ye sons of Judah , why the lute unstrung ? Or why those harps on yonder willows hung ? Come , take the lyre , and pour the ...
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Ballads beauty blessings blest bliss bound in cloth breast BULKLEY Burke CHALDEAN CHARLES BENNETT CHARLES GRIFFIN charms cheer CHORUS cloth and gold cloth gilt elegant comedy Covent Garden cried David Garrick dear Edited EDMUND BURKE EPILOGUE essays eyes fame Fcap fear flies folly handsomely bound heart Heaven honour Illustrated Johnson Kilkenny labour land Lord luxury Memoir and Notes mind mirth MISS CATLEY never o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH pain Pasty plain pleasure poem Poetical Poets poor praise pride rage raptures Recitative Reynolds rise ROBERT BELL round Royal 8vo scene SECOND PRIEST SECOND PROPHET sigh sinks sizar skies smiling SONG sorrow soul spread spurn Stoops to Conquer supplies swain sweet SWEET Auburn thee thine thou thoughts toil Toned Paper triumph turn Twas Ven'son village wealth weep Whitefoord WILLIAM SPALDING WOMAN wretch yonder youth