Bell's British Theatre: Consisting of the Most Esteemed English Plays, Volume 16J. Bell, 1777 |
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... fair victim flain ? Was it for Greece ? You will not furely fay it ? Had Greece the liberty to kill my daughter ? Or was't not for his brother Menelaus ? ( Oh , justly did he die , who kill'd my child ! ) Had not his brother children of ...
... fair victim flain ? Was it for Greece ? You will not furely fay it ? Had Greece the liberty to kill my daughter ? Or was't not for his brother Menelaus ? ( Oh , justly did he die , who kill'd my child ! ) Had not his brother children of ...
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... fair ! Who haft a life of irkfome woes Before dishonest honours chose ; Thou shalt double praises wear ; Stand eternally renown'd , With juftice and with wifdom crown'd . IV . Oh , may'ft thou live , fucceed , and grow , In ftrength ...
... fair ! Who haft a life of irkfome woes Before dishonest honours chose ; Thou shalt double praises wear ; Stand eternally renown'd , With juftice and with wifdom crown'd . IV . Oh , may'ft thou live , fucceed , and grow , In ftrength ...
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... fair ; This day the poet does his arts employ , The foft acceffes of your fouls to try . Nor let the Stoic boaft bis mind unmov'd ; The brute philofopher , who ne'er bas prov'd The joy of loving and of being lov'd ; Who fcorns his human ...
... fair ; This day the poet does his arts employ , The foft acceffes of your fouls to try . Nor let the Stoic boaft bis mind unmov'd ; The brute philofopher , who ne'er bas prov'd The joy of loving and of being lov'd ; Who fcorns his human ...
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... fair . DRAMATIS PERSONE . ME N. Artaxerxes , prince of Perfia , elder fon to King Arfaces , by a former queen , Artaban , fon to Arfaces , by Artemifa , Memnon , formerly general to Arfaces , now difgraced , a friend to Arta xerxes ...
... fair . DRAMATIS PERSONE . ME N. Artaxerxes , prince of Perfia , elder fon to King Arfaces , by a former queen , Artaban , fon to Arfaces , by Artemifa , Memnon , formerly general to Arfaces , now difgraced , a friend to Arta xerxes ...
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... . " Tis faid the fair Ameftris , Memnon's daughter , Conres in their company . Mir . That fatal beauty , With moft malignant influence , haft croft My My first and great ambition . When my brother , 19 THE AMBITIOUS STEP - MOTHER .
... . " Tis faid the fair Ameftris , Memnon's daughter , Conres in their company . Mir . That fatal beauty , With moft malignant influence , haft croft My My first and great ambition . When my brother , 19 THE AMBITIOUS STEP - MOTHER .
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