Scanderbeg: Or, Love and Liberty: A TragedyW. Reeve, 1747 - 320 páginas |
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... Deeds can crown , Is Love t'exalt , and pull Oppression down ; Such Scanderbeg's , whofe gallant Soul , we fee , Tho ' bound by Love , could fet bis Country free . Dra Dramatis Perfonæ . MEN . SCANDERBEG , King of Epirus PROLOGUE . xix.
... Deeds can crown , Is Love t'exalt , and pull Oppression down ; Such Scanderbeg's , whofe gallant Soul , we fee , Tho ' bound by Love , could fet bis Country free . Dra Dramatis Perfonæ . MEN . SCANDERBEG , King of Epirus PROLOGUE . xix.
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... soul , And takes up ev'ry with . If fuch perfections ARIANISSA . Adorn the charming hero , is't a crime To love fuch worth , when yet no tie forbids ? And why should Selimana , whose each thought Should center in the Sultan's love ...
... soul , And takes up ev'ry with . If fuch perfections ARIANISSA . Adorn the charming hero , is't a crime To love fuch worth , when yet no tie forbids ? And why should Selimana , whose each thought Should center in the Sultan's love ...
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... soul , And to thy truft reveal'd the new - born paffion : While you conceal'd a treach'rous , hidden flame , The better to fupplant thy unwary rival , And triumph o'er my weakness .. Can you blame me ? ARIANISSA . If , anxious for your ...
... soul , And to thy truft reveal'd the new - born paffion : While you conceal'd a treach'rous , hidden flame , The better to fupplant thy unwary rival , And triumph o'er my weakness .. Can you blame me ? ARIANISSA . If , anxious for your ...
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... free the mind from cares , if black remorse And guilt disturb . Secure in innocence , What can I fear ? The man whose soul can boaft Con- Confcious integrity , and blameless life , May brave the LOVE and LIBERTY . 47.
... free the mind from cares , if black remorse And guilt disturb . Secure in innocence , What can I fear ? The man whose soul can boaft Con- Confcious integrity , and blameless life , May brave the LOVE and LIBERTY . 47.
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... soul , How I have lov'd thee , Arianiffa ! -But no more : Mine thou must never be - ev'n hope is loft ; Farewel I fhall not long furvive . May'st thou be bleft in Scanderbeg ; enjoy Uninterrupted blifs for a long course Of happy years ...
... soul , How I have lov'd thee , Arianiffa ! -But no more : Mine thou must never be - ev'n hope is loft ; Farewel I fhall not long furvive . May'st thou be bleft in Scanderbeg ; enjoy Uninterrupted blifs for a long course Of happy years ...
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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.