 | George Lillo, Thomas Davies - English drama - 1810 - 336 pages
...way, depend upon it. [Exeunt. SCENE, BARNWELL and MILLWOOD at an entertainment with music and singing. Barn. What can I answer ! — All that I know is,...miserable. Mill. We are both so, and yet the fault is in our* selves. into guilt, is to buy a moment's pleasure with an age of pain. Mill. I should have thought... | |
 | British drama - 1811 - 624 pages
...BARNWELL and MILLWOOD at supper. An entertainment of musiti and tinging. After which they come Jawort/. Barn. What can I answer ? All that I know is, that you are fair, and I am miserable. Mil/. We are both so, and yet the fault is in ourselves. Barn. To ease our present anguish by plunging... | |
 | English drama - 1811 - 620 pages
...BARNWELL and MILLWOOD at supper. An entertainment of music and tinging. After which they comejbrtcard. Barn. What can I answer ? All that I know is, that you are fair, and I am miserable. Alill. We are both so, and yet the fault is in ourselves. Horn. To ease our present anguish by plunging... | |
 | James Plumptre - English drama - 1812 - 480 pages
...BARXWELL and MtLLWOOD at supper.- Entertainment of music and singing, sifter which they come forward. 1 Barn. What can I answer? All that I know is, ' that you are fair, and I am miserable. ' Mil. We- are both so, and yet the fault is in our' selves. ' Barn. To ease our present anguish by... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1824 - 404 pages
...hopeful way, depend upon" t. [Exeunt. SCENE in. BABKWELL and MILLWOOD discovered at Supper Music — after which they come forward. Barn. What can I answer...know is, that you are fair, and I am miserable. Mill. VVe are both so, and yet the fault is in ourselves. Barn. To ease our present anguish, by plunging... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1913 - 590 pages
...yields precipitately to Millwood's seductions, he ejaculates such unavailing precepts as these : ' To ease our present anguish, by plunging into guilt,...is to buy a moment's pleasure with an age of pain ' ; ' The law of Heaven will not be revers'd ; and that requires us to govern our passions.' Sentiment... | |
 | 588 pages
...yields precipitately to Millwood's seductions, he ejaculates such unavailing precepts as these : ' To ease our present anguish, by plunging into guilt,...is to buy a moment's pleasure with an age of pain'; "The law of Heaven will not be revers'd ; and that requires us to govern our passions.' Sentiment attends... | |
 | David Harrison Stevens - English drama - 1923 - 938 pages
...lad is in a way, depend upon't. Exeunt SCENE VIII BARNWELL and MILLWOOD at an entertainment BARNWELL. e MILLWOOD. We are both so, and yet the fault is in ourselves. ; BARNWELL. To ease our present anguish... | |
 | Robert Metcalf Smith - Domestic tragedies (Drama) - 1928 - 596 pages
...way, depend upon't. [Exeunt.] SCENE VIII. — BARNWELL and MILLWOOD at ,an entertainment. BAKNWELL. What can I answer? All that I know is, that you are fair and I am miserable. MILLWOOD. We are both so, and yet the fault is in ourselves. BARNWELL. To ease our present anguish... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1917 - 488 pages
...well yields precipitately to Millwood's seductions, he ejaculates such unavailing precepts as these : "To ease our present anguish, by plunging into guilt,...is to buy a moment's pleasure with an age of pain"; "The law of Heaven will not be revers'd; and that requires us to govern our passions." Sentiment attends... | |
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To ease our present anguish by plunging into guilt, is to buy a moment's pleasure with an age of pain. 
