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THE POOR SOLDIER . MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM . WAY TO GET MARRIED . THE TURNPIKE GATE . PAUL AND VIRGINIA . EMBELLISHED WITH A PORTRAIT OF MISS LOVE ; AND SIX ORIGINAL WOOD ENGRAVINGS . LONDON : JOHN CUMBERLAND , 19 , LUDGATE HILL .
THE POOR SOLDIER . MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM . WAY TO GET MARRIED . THE TURNPIKE GATE . PAUL AND VIRGINIA . EMBELLISHED WITH A PORTRAIT OF MISS LOVE ; AND SIX ORIGINAL WOOD ENGRAVINGS . LONDON : JOHN CUMBERLAND , 19 , LUDGATE HILL .
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Whither shall poor Lilla go ? Wheresoe'er my steps shall roam , Tyrant power will prove my foe . [ Kneels to Seraskier , R. C. Ser . ( c . ) Ismael , who is this beautiful creature ? [ To Lilla . ] Rise , lovely fair one ! Lil .
Whither shall poor Lilla go ? Wheresoe'er my steps shall roam , Tyrant power will prove my foe . [ Kneels to Seraskier , R. C. Ser . ( c . ) Ismael , who is this beautiful creature ? [ To Lilla . ] Rise , lovely fair one ! Lil .
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Poor Lilla ! I hope Leopold will carry her off . I'm sure they love each other - the whole village will rejoice at their wedding . AIR . - GHITA . All will hail the joyous day , When love his triumph shall display .
Poor Lilla ! I hope Leopold will carry her off . I'm sure they love each other - the whole village will rejoice at their wedding . AIR . - GHITA . All will hail the joyous day , When love his triumph shall display .
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The officers are dragging poor Leopold to prison , because he has affronted that wicked old justice , Yuseph . Lil . Alas , my lord ! pray have compassion on an unfortunate lover . Ser . [ Aside to Lilla . ] You must first show me the ...
The officers are dragging poor Leopold to prison , because he has affronted that wicked old justice , Yuseph . Lil . Alas , my lord ! pray have compassion on an unfortunate lover . Ser . [ Aside to Lilla . ] You must first show me the ...
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With sympathetic passion Fond expectation cheer . Ser . & Ism . Lil . & Ghi . Ser . Lil . & Ghi . Night thus from me concealing The form of him I love , Oh , let his voice , revealing ? Ah , should my husband hear , What would poor do ?
With sympathetic passion Fond expectation cheer . Ser . & Ism . Lil . & Ghi . Ser . Lil . & Ghi . Night thus from me concealing The form of him I love , Oh , let his voice , revealing ? Ah , should my husband hear , What would poor do ?
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Page 54 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream : it shall be called Bottom's Dream...
Page 56 - More strange than true : I never may believe These antique fables nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.
Page 27 - I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine. With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Page 65 - Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon ; Whilst the heavy ploughman snores, All with weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud.
Page 10 - The Lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic. Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives...
Page 25 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 24 - ... the seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose; and on old Hiems' thin and icy crown an odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds is, as in mockery, set...
Page 66 - If we shadows have offended. Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend...
Page 56 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy ; Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ? Hip.
Page 36 - Be kind and courteous to this gentleman ; Hop in his walks, and gambol in his eyes ; Feed him with apricocks and dewberries, -. With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries. The honey-bags steal from the humble-bees, And for night-tapers crop their waxen thighs, And light them at the fiery glow-worm's eyes...
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| Title | Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical and Critical, Volume 20 Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical and Critical, John Cumberland |
| Editors | George Daniel, John Cumberland |
| Illustrated by | Robert Cruikshank |
| Publisher | J. Cumberland, 1828 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 13 Aug 2007 |
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