Venice Preserved, Or, A Plot Discovered: A Tragedyproprietors, under the direction of John Bell, British-Library, Strand, bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, 1797 - English drama (Tragedy) - 122 pages |
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... brave man's labours . Pier . We've neither safety , unity , nor peace , For the foundation's lost of common good ; Justice is lame , as well as blind , amongst us ; The laws ( corrupted to their ends that make ' em ) Serve but for ...
... brave man's labours . Pier . We've neither safety , unity , nor peace , For the foundation's lost of common good ; Justice is lame , as well as blind , amongst us ; The laws ( corrupted to their ends that make ' em ) Serve but for ...
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... brave dust With stinking rogues , that rot in winding - sheets , Surfeit - slain fools , the common dung o ' th ' soil ! Jaf . Oh ! Pier . Well said , out with't , swear a little- Jaf . Swear ! By sea and air ; by earth , by Heav'n and ...
... brave dust With stinking rogues , that rot in winding - sheets , Surfeit - slain fools , the common dung o ' th ' soil ! Jaf . Oh ! Pier . Well said , out with't , swear a little- Jaf . Swear ! By sea and air ; by earth , by Heav'n and ...
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... brave story warms me . Pier . Swear then ! Jaf . I do , by all those glittering stars , And yon great ruling planet of the night ; By all good pow'rs above , and ill below ; By love and friendship , dearer than my life , No pow'r or ...
... brave story warms me . Pier . Swear then ! Jaf . I do , by all those glittering stars , And yon great ruling planet of the night ; By all good pow'rs above , and ill below ; By love and friendship , dearer than my life , No pow'r or ...
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... brave alliance . One more embrace , my friends - we'll all embrace . United thus , we are the mighty engine Must twist this rooted empire from its basis . Totters not it already ? Eli . Would ' twere tumbling . Bed . Nay , it shall down ...
... brave alliance . One more embrace , my friends - we'll all embrace . United thus , we are the mighty engine Must twist this rooted empire from its basis . Totters not it already ? Eli . Would ' twere tumbling . Bed . Nay , it shall down ...
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... brave : [ To the Maid ] Come , come , " come Mrs. Fiddle - faddle , turn you out for a season : " Go , turn out , I say , it is our will and pleasure to be " private some moments- -out , out , when you are " bid to- - [ Puts her out and ...
... brave : [ To the Maid ] Come , come , " come Mrs. Fiddle - faddle , turn you out for a season : " Go , turn out , I say , it is our will and pleasure to be " private some moments- -out , out , when you are " bid to- - [ Puts her out and ...
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Adrastus Alcander Alvarez arms art thou behold Belvidera Belzara bless blood bosom brave Carlos Creon crown cruel curs'd curse dagger dare dear death Dioc dreadful e'er Enter Eurydice ev'n ev'ry Exeunt Exit eyes faith fatal fate father fear ghosts give gods Gormaz grief guard Guil Guilford Hæmon hand hear heart Heav'n honour hope incest Jaffier Jocasta king L. J. Gray Lady JANE Laius lord Lord Guilford Dudley mercy mourn murder Nacky ne'er night noble o'er OEdip passion peace Pembroke Phorbas Pier Pierre pity Polybus pow'rs prince queen rage Renault revenge royal ruin sacred Sanchez senate shew sorrows soul speak Suff sword tears tell Thebans Thebes thee there's thou art thou hast thought thy love Tiresias traitor twas vengeance Venice villain virtue weep wretched wrong'd Ximena
Popular passages
Page 28 - Oh woman ! lovely woman ! Nature made thee To temper man : we had been brutes without you ! Angels are painted fair to look like you : There's in you all, that we believe of" heaven ; Amazing brightness, purity and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love.
Page 28 - For charitable succour ; wilt thou then, When in a bed of straw we shrink together, And the bleak winds shall whistle round our heads ; Wilt thou then talk thus to me ? Wilt thou then Hush my cares thus, and shelter me with love ? Belv.
Page 26 - Thou mad'st me what I am, with all the spirit, Aspiring thoughts and elegant desires That fill the happiest man ? Ah ! rather why Didst thou not form me sordid as my fate, Base-minded, dull, and fit to carry burdens? Why have I sense to know the curse that's on me? Is this just dealing. Nature ? Belvidera ! Enter BELVIDERA.
Page 16 - I receiv'd you ; Courted, and sought to raise you to your merits : My house, my table, nay, my fortune too, My very self, was yours ; you might have...
Page 19 - Belvidera ! Oh ! she is my wife And we will bear our wayward fate together, But ne'er know comfort more.
Page 35 - And bitterest disquiet wring his heart! Oh, let him live till life become his burden; Let him groan under't long, linger an age In the worst agonies and pangs of death, And find its ease but late!
Page 16 - At dead of night; that cursed hour you chose To rifle me of all my heart held dear. May all your joys in her prove false like mine; A...
Page 69 - Death here without repentance, Hell hereafter. Ren. Let that be my lot, if as here I stand, Listed by fate among her darling sons, 600 Tho' I had one only brother, dear by all The strictest ties of nature ;
Page 36 - I've told thee that which only gods, And men like gods, are privy to, then swear No chance or change shall wrest it from thy bosom. Jaf. When thou would'st bind me, is there need of oaths ? " Green-sickness girls lose maidenheads with such counters.
Page 73 - To eternal honour; To do a deed shall chronicle thy name, Among the glorious legends of those few That have sav'd sinking nations: thy renown Shall be the future song of all the virgins, Who by thy piety have been preserved From horrid violation: every street Shall be adorn'd with statues to thy honour, And at thy feet this great inscription written, Remember him that propp'd the fall of Venice.