Bell's British Theatre: Comus, by J. Milton. ... Love in a village, by I. Bickerstaff[e1797 |
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... what were by no means comprehended in his plan . All that is here to be sought , is a concise charac- teristic SKETCH of the Author , to whose play it is prefixed . ANECDOTES that are entirely new , can scarcely be hoped for at this ...
... what were by no means comprehended in his plan . All that is here to be sought , is a concise charac- teristic SKETCH of the Author , to whose play it is prefixed . ANECDOTES that are entirely new , can scarcely be hoped for at this ...
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... What need a man forestal his date of grief , " And run to meet what he would most avoid ? " Or if they be but false alarms of fear " How bitter is such self - delusion ! " I do not think my sister so to seek , " Or so unprincipled in ...
... What need a man forestal his date of grief , " And run to meet what he would most avoid ? " Or if they be but false alarms of fear " How bitter is such self - delusion ! " I do not think my sister so to seek , " Or so unprincipled in ...
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... what could she do ? " What hope , what comfort , what support , were left ? Spi . " She meets not them ; but yet , if right I guess , " A harder trial on her virtue waits . E. Bro . " Protect her Heav'n ! But whence this sad conjecture ...
... what could she do ? " What hope , what comfort , what support , were left ? Spi . " She meets not them ; but yet , if right I guess , " A harder trial on her virtue waits . E. Bro . " Protect her Heav'n ! But whence this sad conjecture ...
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... What need a vermeil tinctur'd lip for that , Love - darting eyss , or tresses like the morn ? There was another meaning in these gifts ; Think what , and be advis'd : you are but young yet ; This will inform you soon . Lady . " To him ...
... What need a vermeil tinctur'd lip for that , Love - darting eyss , or tresses like the morn ? There was another meaning in these gifts ; Think what , and be advis'd : you are but young yet ; This will inform you soon . Lady . " To him ...
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... What do you mean ? Dol . Because o ' your fermentation and cibatian- Sub . Not I , by Heaven- Dol . Your Sol and Luna - help me . Sub . Would I were hang'd then . I'll conform myself . Dol . Will you , sir ? Do so , then , and quickly ...
... What do you mean ? Dol . Because o ' your fermentation and cibatian- Sub . Not I , by Heaven- Dol . Your Sol and Luna - help me . Sub . Would I were hang'd then . I'll conform myself . Dol . Will you , sir ? Do so , then , and quickly ...
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Página 47 - Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy ! Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven sings ; There, under ebon shades and low-browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
Página 34 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, that, when a soul is found sincerely so, a thousand. liveried angels lackey her, driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, and, in clear dream and solemn vision, tell her of things that no gross ear can hear...
Página 34 - Till all be made immortal : but when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
Página 31 - Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Página 66 - And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Página 32 - That musing meditation most affects The pensive secrecy of desert cell, Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds, And sits as safe as in a senate-house ; For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish...
Página 56 - Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please, and sate the curious taste...
Página 48 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Página 23 - My best guide now : methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed merriment, Such as the jocund flute, or gamesome pipe, Stirs up among the loose unletter'd hinds, When, for their teeming flocks, and granges full, In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan, And thank the gods amiss.
Página 44 - I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death...