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... thou dost suspect there's something wrong ! * Edric . If we were bred from infancy together , If I partook in all thy youthful griefs , And every joy thou knew'st was doubly mine ; Then tell me all the secret of thy soul . Or have these ...
... thou dost suspect there's something wrong ! * Edric . If we were bred from infancy together , If I partook in all thy youthful griefs , And every joy thou knew'st was doubly mine ; Then tell me all the secret of thy soul . Or have these ...
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... Thou hast not learnt how terrible it is To feed a hopeless flame . - But hear , Elwina , Thou most obdurate , hear me . Elwina . Say , my lord , For your own lips shall vindicate my fame , Since at the altar I became your wife , Can ...
... Thou hast not learnt how terrible it is To feed a hopeless flame . - But hear , Elwina , Thou most obdurate , hear me . Elwina . Say , my lord , For your own lips shall vindicate my fame , Since at the altar I became your wife , Can ...
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... thou could'st not find An hour , a moment in Elwina's life , When her full heart so long'd to ease its load , And pour its sorrows in thy friendly bosom : Hear then , with pity hear my tale of woe . And , O let filial piety forgive , If ...
... thou could'st not find An hour , a moment in Elwina's life , When her full heart so long'd to ease its load , And pour its sorrows in thy friendly bosom : Hear then , with pity hear my tale of woe . And , O let filial piety forgive , If ...
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... Thou hast nam'd a Roman husband ; if she's false , I mean to prove myself a Roman father . [ Exit DOUGLAS . This marriage was my work , and thus I'm pu- nish'd ! Enter ELWINA . Elwina . Where is my father ? let me fly to meet him ; O ...
... Thou hast nam'd a Roman husband ; if she's false , I mean to prove myself a Roman father . [ Exit DOUGLAS . This marriage was my work , and thus I'm pu- nish'd ! Enter ELWINA . Elwina . Where is my father ? let me fly to meet him ; O ...
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... thou lay all my naked soul before me ? Can thy unconscious eye encounter mine ? Can'st thou endure the probe , and never shrink ? Can thy firm hand meet mine , and never tremble ? Art thou prepar'd to meet the rigid judge ? Or to ...
... thou lay all my naked soul before me ? Can thy unconscious eye encounter mine ? Can'st thou endure the probe , and never shrink ? Can thy firm hand meet mine , and never tremble ? Art thou prepar'd to meet the rigid judge ? Or to ...
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Page 294 - You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not commit adultery. But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Page 388 - The Lord gave, and the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord.
Page 91 - To drive the deer with hound and horn Earl Percy took his way ; The child may rue that is unborn The hunting of that day.
Page 240 - To love mankind so dearly, and yet avoid all opportunities of doing them good ; to have such a noble zeal for the millions, and to feel so little compassion for the units ; to long to free empires and enlighten kingdoms ; and yet deny instruction to your own village, and comfort to your own family.
Page 274 - But it was in vain to speak ; for his daughters constantly stopped his mouth by a favourite saying of theirs, which equally indicated affectation and vulgarity — that it was better to be out of the world than out of the fashion. Soon after dinner, the women went out to their several employments, and Mr. Worthy, being left alone with his guest, the following discourse took place.
Page 186 - From scatter'd acorns pick a scanty meal ; — Far from the sweet civilities of life ; There let him live and vaunt his wretched freedom : While we, obedient to the laws that guard us, Guard them, and live or die as they decree.
Page 421 - I, farmer, think that to teach good " principles to the lower classes, is the " most likely way to save the country. " Now, in order to this, we must teach
Page 27 - ... hurtful to others, and which must, if so, be displeasing to God ? The stage is by universal concurrence allowed to be no indifferent thing. The impressions it makes on the mind are deep and strong ; deeper and stronger perhaps than are made by any otner amusement. If then such impressions be in the general hostile to Christianity, the whole resolves itself into this short question — Should a Christian frequent it...
Page 160 - There new-born plays foretaste the town's applause, There dormant patterns pine for future gauze. A moral essay now is all her care, A satire next, and then a bill of fare. A scene she now projects, and now a dish, Here Act the First, and here
Page 14 - to lust after her, hath already committed adultery " in his heart,