The Modern British Drama: ComediesWalter Scott William Miller, 1811 - English drama |
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... eyes yet : I was but new risen as you came . How passes the day abroad , sir ? can you tell ? Mat . Faith , some ... eyes , no eyes , but fountains fraught with tears ! ' - There's a conceit ! Foun- tains fraught with tears ! Oh , world ...
... eyes yet : I was but new risen as you came . How passes the day abroad , sir ? can you tell ? Mat . Faith , some ... eyes , no eyes , but fountains fraught with tears ! ' - There's a conceit ! Foun- tains fraught with tears ! Oh , world ...
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... eyes and ears To attend the impositions of my heart . My presence shall be as an iron - bar , ' Twixt the conspiring motions of desire : Yea , every look or glance mine eyes eject , Shall check occasion , as one doth his slave , When he ...
... eyes and ears To attend the impositions of my heart . My presence shall be as an iron - bar , ' Twixt the conspiring motions of desire : Yea , every look or glance mine eyes eject , Shall check occasion , as one doth his slave , When he ...
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... eyes ! Where they may handle our gifts , Hear our lascivious courtships , see our dalliance , Taste of the same provoking meats with us , To ruin of our state ! Nay , when our own Portion is fled to prey on their remainder , We call ...
... eyes ! Where they may handle our gifts , Hear our lascivious courtships , see our dalliance , Taste of the same provoking meats with us , To ruin of our state ! Nay , when our own Portion is fled to prey on their remainder , We call ...
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... eyes ? I will not go . Business , go by for once . No , beauty , no ; you are of too good caract To be left so , without a guard , or open ! Your lustre too'll inflame at any distance , Draw courtship to you , as a jet doth straws ; Put ...
... eyes ? I will not go . Business , go by for once . No , beauty , no ; you are of too good caract To be left so , without a guard , or open ! Your lustre too'll inflame at any distance , Draw courtship to you , as a jet doth straws ; Put ...
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... eyes ever taste the like of March , or thereabouts ; and we would chal- clown of him , where we were to - day , Mr Well - lenge twenty of the enemy ; they could not , in bred's half brother ? I think the whole earth can- not shew his ...
... eyes ever taste the like of March , or thereabouts ; and we would chal- clown of him , where we were to - day , Mr Well - lenge twenty of the enemy ; they could not , in bred's half brother ? I think the whole earth can- not shew his ...
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