The London Theatre: A Collection of the Most Celebrated Dramatic Pieces, Volumen5Whittingham and Arliss, 1815 |
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Página 10 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
Página 12 - I begged his pardon for the freedom I had taken, and told him that he was the person I had long wished to see, and to whom I had an affair of importance to communicate at a proper time and place. He named a tavern; I talked of honour and reputation, and invited him to my house. He swallowed the bait, promised to come, and this is the time I expect him. (knocking at the door) Somebody knocks;— d'ye hear; I am at home to nobody to-day but him. (Exit LUCY...
Página 30 - Tis yet unperformed — What if I quit my bloody purpose, and fly the place I [Going, then stops.] But whither, oh, whither shall I fly ? My master's once friendly doors are ever shut against me ; and without money Millwood will never see me more ; and she has got such firm possession of my heart, and governs there with such despotic sway, that life is not to be endured without her.
Página 23 - Humanity obliges me to wish you well; why will you thus expose yourself to needless troubles? Lucy. Nay, there's no help for it : she must quit the town immediately, and the kingdom as soon as possible. It was no small matter, you may be sure, that could make her resolve to leave you. Mil. No more, my friend; since he for whose dear sake alone I suffer, and am content to suffer, is kind and pities me; where'er I wander, thro' wilds and deserts, benighted and forlorn, that thought shall give me comfort.
Página 48 - That I must die — it is my only comfort; Death is the privilege of human nature, And life without it were not worth our taking; Thither the poor, the pris'ner, and the mourner Fly for relief and lay their burdens down.
Página 30 - A dismal gloom obscures the face of day ; either the sun has slipped behind a cloud, or journeys down the west of heaven, with more than common speed, to avoid the sight of what I'm doomed to act.
Página 5 - Therefore an humbler theme our author chose, / A melancholy tale of private woes: / No princes here lost royalty bemoan, / But you shall meet with sorrows like your own...
Página 15 - So it seems. BLUNT. What! is our mistress turned fool at last? She's in love with him, I suppose. LUCY. I suppose not; but she designs to make him in love with her if she can. BLUNT. What will she get by that? He seems under age, and can't be supposed to have much money.
Página 36 - I did, though you had a thousand years of life to come, to have given them all to have lengthened his one hour ! But being dead, I fled the sight of what my hands had done, nor could I, to have gained the empire of the world, have violated by theft his sacred corpse. Mill. Whining, preposterous, canting villain, to murder your uncle, rob him of life, nature's first, last, dear prerogative...
Página 48 - tis too much for this offending wretch, This parricide, that murders with her crimes, Shortens her father's age, and cuts him off, Ere little more than half his years are number'd.