The Works of the Author of The Night-thoughts: In Three Volumes, Volume 2F. and C. Rivington ; Otridge and Son ; J. Nichols ; J. Sewell ; Longman and Rees ; Cadell and Davies ; G. and J. Robinson ; Vernor and Hood ; J. Walker ; J. Scatcherd ; Ogilvy and Son ; T. Hurst ; J. Mawman ; J. Nunn ; J. Cuthell ; W.J. and J. Richardson ; and J. Bookham, 1802 |
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Page 84
... twill breed Fell rage and bitterness betwixt their souls , Which may perchance grow up to greater evil ; If not , ' tis all I can It shall be so LEONORA . O Zanga ! I am sinking in my fears ! Alonzo dropt this dagger as he left me ; And ...
... twill breed Fell rage and bitterness betwixt their souls , Which may perchance grow up to greater evil ; If not , ' tis all I can It shall be so LEONORA . O Zanga ! I am sinking in my fears ! Alonzo dropt this dagger as he left me ; And ...
Page 108
... Twill never do . POSTHUMIUS . They both are bright ; but one Benignly bright , as stars to mariners ; And one a comet with malignant blaze , Denouncing ruin . CURTIUS . You mean Perseus . POSTHUMIUS . True , The younger son Demetrius ...
... Twill never do . POSTHUMIUS . They both are bright ; but one Benignly bright , as stars to mariners ; And one a comet with malignant blaze , Denouncing ruin . CURTIUS . You mean Perseus . POSTHUMIUS . True , The younger son Demetrius ...
Page 156
... Twill give us cause to think you wrong'd in both . DEMETRIUS . How shall I clear it , Sir ; KING . This honest man Detests the Romans : If you wed his daughter , Rome's foe becomes the guardian of your faith . DEMETRIUS . I told you ...
... Twill give us cause to think you wrong'd in both . DEMETRIUS . How shall I clear it , Sir ; KING . This honest man Detests the Romans : If you wed his daughter , Rome's foe becomes the guardian of your faith . DEMETRIUS . I told you ...
Page 175
... Twill do as well . DEMETRIUS . [ Going . By heav'n , you shall not stir . Long as I live , I stand a world between you , And keep you distant as the poles asunder . Who takes my love , in mercy takes my life ; Thy bloody pass cleave ...
... Twill do as well . DEMETRIUS . [ Going . By heav'n , you shall not stir . Long as I live , I stand a world between you , And keep you distant as the poles asunder . Who takes my love , in mercy takes my life ; Thy bloody pass cleave ...
Page 177
... twill mount into the throne . O Sir ! think of it ! I'll expect my fate . [ Exit Dem . KING . And thou shalt have it . DYMAS . How , my Lord ; in tears ! KING . As if the gods came down in evidence ! How many sudden rays of proof concur ...
... twill mount into the throne . O Sir ! think of it ! I'll expect my fate . [ Exit Dem . KING . And thou shalt have it . DYMAS . How , my Lord ; in tears ! KING . As if the gods came down in evidence ! How many sudden rays of proof concur ...
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ALONZO Alvarez ambition angels ANTIGONUS art thou beneath bleeds blest bliss blood blood divine bosom brother call'd crime CURTIUS dæmon dare dark dead death DEMETRIUS deny'd divine Don Carlos dost dreadful dust DYMAS earth empire ERIXENE eternal Ev'n ev'ry Exit fair fate father fear flame fool gaze give glory gods good-natur'd grave grief groan guilt happiness hast hear heart heav'n hope hour human immortal ISABELLA KING LEONORA life's lord LORENZO Macedon mortal NARCISSA nature nature's ne'er night numbers o'er pain pangs passion peace PERICLES PERSEUS Philip POSTHUMIUS pow'r praise pride rage reason rise Rome scene shew sigh skies smile song soul speak stab strike tears thee theme thine thou thought Thrace Thracian thro throne tomb tremble triumph truth Twas Twill vengeance virtue weep wing wisdom wise wounds wretched ZANGA
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Page 214 - tis madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Page 232 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven ; And how they might have borne more welcome news. Their answers form what men Experience call ; If Wisdom's friend, her best ; -if not, worst foe.
Page 203 - How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what ? A fathomless abyss, A dread eternity, how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour ? How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man...
Page 215 - Tis not in folly not to scorn a fool, And scarce in human wisdom to do more. All promise is poor dilatory man, And that through every stage. When young, indeed...
Page 206 - And is it in the flight of threescore years To push eternity from human thought, And smother souls immortal in the dust? A soul immortal, spending all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptured, or alarm'd At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.
Page 202 - Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
Page 352 - Horrid with frost, and turbulent with storm, Blows autumn, and his golden fruits, away: Then melts into the spring : soft spring, with breath Favonian, from warm chambers of the south, Recalls the first. All, to re-flourish, fades ; As in a wheel, all sinks, to re-ascend. Emblems of man, who passes, not expires. With this minute distinction, emblems just, Nature revolves, but man advances ; both Eternal ; that a circle, this a line. That gravitates, this soars. Th' aspiring soul, Ardent, and tremulous,...
Page 255 - Smitten friends Are angels sent on errands full of love ; For us they languish, and for us they die...
Page 349 - Who lives to nature, rarely can be poor ; Who lives to fancy, never can be rich. Poor is the man in debt ; the man of gold, In debt to fortune, trembles at her power.
Page 205 - Life's theatre as yet is shut, and Death, Strong Death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us, embryos of existence, free.