Scanderbeg: Or, Love and Liberty: A TragedyW. Reeve, 1747 - 320 páginas |
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... Some in diftrefs , perhaps , Demand our speedy aid ; hafte , let's advance . [ Advancing difcovers Aradin wounded . URANES . O dismal fight ! Behold a murther'd wretch , Lies welt'ring in his gore , and feems expiring . SCANDERBEG . O ...
... Some in diftrefs , perhaps , Demand our speedy aid ; hafte , let's advance . [ Advancing difcovers Aradin wounded . URANES . O dismal fight ! Behold a murther'd wretch , Lies welt'ring in his gore , and feems expiring . SCANDERBEG . O ...
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... Some fort of obligation ; teach my heart To number up thy services and kindness , Not cruelties AMURATH . If thou continu'ft ftill inexorable , Still cruel and unkind , I will not answer How far my juft refentment may transport me , Nor ...
... Some fort of obligation ; teach my heart To number up thy services and kindness , Not cruelties AMURATH . If thou continu'ft ftill inexorable , Still cruel and unkind , I will not answer How far my juft refentment may transport me , Nor ...
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... numbers Stretch o'er the wide horizon ; bent they feem , By their fierce fpeed , on furious enterprize , * In some few minutes more they'l reach the plain ; F 4 In LOVE and LIBERTY . 7 ! Perhaps for ever dreadful thought !-who knows ...
... numbers Stretch o'er the wide horizon ; bent they feem , By their fierce fpeed , on furious enterprize , * In some few minutes more they'l reach the plain ; F 4 In LOVE and LIBERTY . 7 ! Perhaps for ever dreadful thought !-who knows ...
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A Tragedy Thomas Whincop, John Mottley Martha Whincop. In some few minutes more they'l reach the plain ; Where now in arms thy troops impatient wait Their orders , and thy prefence . → I come SCANDERBEG . ARIANISSA . O Scanderbeg , yet ...
A Tragedy Thomas Whincop, John Mottley Martha Whincop. In some few minutes more they'l reach the plain ; Where now in arms thy troops impatient wait Their orders , and thy prefence . → I come SCANDERBEG . ARIANISSA . O Scanderbeg , yet ...
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... some lucklefs ftroke touch thy dear life ; Depriv'd of thee , thousands would mourn thy fall : But how should I fupport that lofs ? The thought , The bare imagination overwhelms My foul with grief unutterable.- I fhare thy griefs ...
... some lucklefs ftroke touch thy dear life ; Depriv'd of thee , thousands would mourn thy fall : But how should I fupport that lofs ? The thought , The bare imagination overwhelms My foul with grief unutterable.- I fhare thy griefs ...
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Página 140 - He had by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford.
Página 142 - Mr. Jonson, who was at that time altogether unknown to the world, had offered one of his plays to the players, in order to have it acted ; and the persons into whose hands it was put, after having turned it carelessly and superciliously over, were just upon returning it to him with an ill-natured answer, that it would be of no service to their company ; when...
Página 147 - His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter, as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him, "Caesar, thou dost me wrong," he replied, "Caesar did never wrong but with just cause"; and such like, which were ridiculous.
Página 142 - His Acquaintance with Ben Johnson began with a remarkable piece of Humanity and good Nature; Mr Johnson, who was at that Time altogether unknown to the World, had offer'd one of his Plays to the Players, in order to have it...
Página 140 - He was received into the company then in being, at first in a very mean rank ; but his admirable wit, and the natural turn of it to the stage, soon distinguished him, if not as an extraordinary actor, yet as an excellent writer.
Página 140 - Perhaps we are not to look for his beginnings, like those of other authors, among their least perfect writings ; art had so little, and nature so large a share in what he did, that, for aught I know...
Página 222 - I will say but one word more in general of his writings, which is, that what he has done in any one species, or distinct kind, would have been sufficient to have acquired him a great name. If he had written nothing but his prefaces, or nothing but his songs or his prologues, each of them would have entitled him to the preference and distinction of excelling in his kind.
Página 139 - ... he was his eldest son, he could give him no better education than his own employment.
Página 221 - Indeed, it is to be regretted, that he was rather blameable in the other extreme; for, by that means, he was personally less known, and, consequently, his character might become liable both to misapprehensions and misrepresentations.
Página 221 - ... last, even to near seventy years of age, improving even in fire and imagination, as well as in judgment; witness his Ode on St Cecilia's Day, and his Fables, his latest performances.