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" And own myself a man; to see our senators Cheat the deluded people with a show Of liberty, which yet they ne'er must taste of; They say by them our hands are free from fetters, Yet whom they please they lay in basest bonds... "
Select Miscellaneous Productions, of Mrs. Day, and Thomas Day, Esq., in ... - Page 5
by Esther Milnes Day, Thomas Lowndes - 1805 - 255 pages
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Restoration Plays from Dryden to Farquhar

William Wycherley, William Congreve, Thomas Otway, George Farquhar, Sir John Vanbrugh, John Dryden - English drama - 1925 - 396 pages
...Jaff. A villain Pierr. Yes, a most notorious villain: To see the suff'rings of my fellow-creatures, And own myself a man: to see our senators Cheat the deluded people with a show Of Liberty, which yet they ne'er must taste of; They say, by them our hands are free from fetters,...
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Great English Plays: Twenty-three Masterpieces from the Mysteries to ...

Harold F. Rubinstein - English drama - 1928 - 1138 pages
...: A villain PIERR. : Yes, a most notorious villain : To see the suff'rings of my fellow-creatures, show Of Liberty, which yet they ne'er must taste of ; They say, by them our hands are free from fetters,...
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Venice Preserved

Thomas Otway - Drama - 1969 - 144 pages
...am a villain! 150 JAFFEIR. A villain— PIKKRE. Yes, a most notorious villain: To see the sufF'rings of my fellow creatures, And own myself a man; to see our Senators Cheat the deluded people with a show Of liberty, which yet they ne'er must taste of. 155 They say, by them our hands are free from...
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Heroes and States: On the Ideology of Restoration Tragedy

John Douglas Canfield - Body, Mind & Spirit - 280 pages
...definition of villainy, of heroes and states: To see the suffring's of my fellow Creatures, And own my self a Man: To see our Senators Cheat the deluded people with a shew Of Liberty, which yet they ne'r must taste of. ... All that bear this are Villains; and I one, Not to rouse up at the great Call...
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THE OF JOHN THELWALL

MRS. THELWALL - 1837 - 538 pages
...Jaff. A villain ! Pierre. Yes: a most notorious villain, To see the sufferings of my fellow-creatures, And own myself a man : to see our senators Cheat the deluded people with a show Of liberty, which yet they ne'er must taste of. Yet whom they please they lay in basest bonds...
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Life and Correspondence of the Rev. William Smith, D. D....: With ..., Volume 1

Horace Wemyss Smith - 1879 - 612 pages
...London. London. R. Griffith. 1756. It had this motto : To see the sufferings of my fellow-creatures, And own myself a man — to see our Senators Cheat the deluded people with a sham Of Liberty, which yet they never taste of. All that hear this are villains, and I one, Not to...
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