The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays: Which are Acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and Haymarket ...Mrs. Inchbald Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808 |
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... Syph . Sempronius , all is ready ; I've sounded my Numidians , man by man , And find them ripe for a revolt : they all Complain aloud of Cato's discipline , And wait but the command to change their master . Sem . Believe me , Syphax ...
... Syph . Sempronius , all is ready ; I've sounded my Numidians , man by man , And find them ripe for a revolt : they all Complain aloud of Cato's discipline , And wait but the command to change their master . Sem . Believe me , Syphax ...
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... Syph . But is it true , Sempronius , that your senate Is call'd together ! Gods ! thou must be cautious ; Cato has piercing eyes , and will discern Our frauds , unless they're cover'd thick with art . Şem . Let me alone , good Syphax ...
... Syph . But is it true , Sempronius , that your senate Is call'd together ! Gods ! thou must be cautious ; Cato has piercing eyes , and will discern Our frauds , unless they're cover'd thick with art . Şem . Let me alone , good Syphax ...
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... Syph . Gods ! where's the worth that sets these peo- ple up Above her own Numidia's tawny sons ? Do they with tougher sinews bend the bow ? Or flies the jav'lin swifter to its mark , Launch'd from the vigour of a Roman arm ? Who like ...
... Syph . Gods ! where's the worth that sets these peo- ple up Above her own Numidia's tawny sons ? Do they with tougher sinews bend the bow ? Or flies the jav'lin swifter to its mark , Launch'd from the vigour of a Roman arm ? Who like ...
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... Syph . Oh , that you'd profit by your father's ills ! Jub . What would'st thou have me do ? Syph . Abandon Cato . Jub . Syphax , I should be more than twice an or- phan , By such a loss . Syph . Ay , there's the tie that binds you ? You ...
... Syph . Oh , that you'd profit by your father's ills ! Jub . What would'st thou have me do ? Syph . Abandon Cato . Jub . Syphax , I should be more than twice an or- phan , By such a loss . Syph . Ay , there's the tie that binds you ? You ...
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... Syph . Alas ! my prince , I'd guide you to your safety . Jub . I do believe thou would'st ; but tell me how ? Syph . Fly from the fate that follows Cæsar's foes . Jub . My father scorn'd to do it . Syph . And therefore dy❜d . Jub ...
... Syph . Alas ! my prince , I'd guide you to your safety . Jub . I do believe thou would'st ; but tell me how ? Syph . Fly from the fate that follows Cæsar's foes . Jub . My father scorn'd to do it . Syph . And therefore dy❜d . Jub ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 59 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Página 59 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Página 58 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Página 17 - O'ercast with gloomy cares, and discontent ; Then tell me, Syphax, I conjure thee, tell me, What' are the thoughts that knit thy brow in frowns, And turn thine eye thus coldly on thy prince ? SYPHAX. 'Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, Or carry smiles and sun-shine in my face, , When discontent sits heavy at my heart.
Página 7 - Dear Bob, — I have not anything to leave thee, to perpetuate my memory, but two helpless girls ; look upon them, sometimes ; and think of him that was, to the last moment of his life, thine, — GEORGE FARQUHAR.
Página 45 - ARCH. Madam, the ladies pay best; the honour of serving them is sufficient wages; there is a charm in their looks that delivers a pleasure with their commands, and gives our duty the wings of inclination. MRS.
Página 30 - The resolution fits a Roman senate. But, Cato, lend me for a while thy patience, And condescend to hear a young man speak. My father, when some days before his death He...
Página 20 - Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture of a skin, that I admire: Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
Página 32 - Exacts severity from all our thoughts : It is not now a time to talk of aught But chains or conquest, liberty or death.
Página 20 - His counsels bade me yield to thy directions: Then, Syphax, chide me in severest terms, Vent all thy passion, and I'll stand its shock, Calm and unruffled as a summer sea, When not a breath of wind flies o'er its surface.