The gamester, by E. Moore. The tragedy of Jane Shore, by N. Rowe. The London merchant, by G. Lillo. Douglas, by J. Home. The tragedy of the Lady Jane Gray, by N. RoweJames Plumptre F. Hodson, 1812 - English drama |
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... happy to bow to such authority , and that Mr. M. and his congregation should be indulged . This was in the year 1781. In the Play - bill for Dec. 22 of that year the following advertisement appeared : " The play of St. Ignatius being ...
... happy to bow to such authority , and that Mr. M. and his congregation should be indulged . This was in the year 1781. In the Play - bill for Dec. 22 of that year the following advertisement appeared : " The play of St. Ignatius being ...
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... happy ; " the incidents and turns of fortune so ingenious , that " each step increases the interest and the distress : the " catastrophe is unexpected ( for the prospect bright- " ened ) , and terrible and just . The characters are ...
... happy ; " the incidents and turns of fortune so ingenious , that " each step increases the interest and the distress : the " catastrophe is unexpected ( for the prospect bright- " ened ) , and terrible and just . The characters are ...
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... happy instruments in deterring many from venturing upon so dangerous a course . these cases the beneficial effects may be expected to be evidenced more in succeeding generations than in that in which the lesson is first exhibited . And ...
... happy instruments in deterring many from venturing upon so dangerous a course . these cases the beneficial effects may be expected to be evidenced more in succeeding generations than in that in which the lesson is first exhibited . And ...
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... happy ? Char . Because my sister's miserable . Mrs. Bev . You must not think so . I have my jewels left yet . I'll sell them to supply our wants ; and when all's gone , these hands shall toil for our support . The poor should be ...
... happy ? Char . Because my sister's miserable . Mrs. Bev . You must not think so . I have my jewels left yet . I'll sell them to supply our wants ; and when all's gone , these hands shall toil for our support . The poor should be ...
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... happy , turn a deaf ear to such reports.― ' Tis ruin to believe them . Mrs. Bev . Ay , worse than ruin . ' Twould be to sin against conviction . Why was it mention'd ? Stu . To guard you against rumour . The sport of half mankind is ...
... happy , turn a deaf ear to such reports.― ' Tis ruin to believe them . Mrs. Bev . Ay , worse than ruin . ' Twould be to sin against conviction . Why was it mention'd ? Stu . To guard you against rumour . The sport of half mankind is ...
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Page 280 - The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.
Page 22 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly...
Page 279 - Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock: And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
Page 182 - What's Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba That he should weep for her? What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears.
Page 325 - Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park. I found her in her chamber reading...
Page 326 - For when I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly as God made the world...
Page xxi - And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; and he shall purify the sons of Levi and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.
Page 23 - O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed...
Page 326 - I am with him. And when I am called from him, I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else but learning, is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me. And thus my book hath been so much my pleasure, and bringeth daily to me more pleasure and more, that in respect of it, all other pleasures, in very deed, be but trifles and troubles unto me.
Page 70 - I have pass'da miserable night, So full of fearful dreams, of ugly sights, That, as I am a christian faithful man, ' • I would not spend another such a night, Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days ; So full of dismal terror was the time.