Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical & Critical. Printed from the Acting Copies, as Performed at the Theatres Royal, London...J. Cumberland, 1828 - English drama |
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... thou dream thy true love's here , Depriv'd of peace and rest ? The birds sing sweet , the morning breaks , These joys are none to me , — Though sleep is fled , poor Dermot wakes , To none but love and thee . Re - enter DARBY , L. [ Exit ...
... thou dream thy true love's here , Depriv'd of peace and rest ? The birds sing sweet , the morning breaks , These joys are none to me , — Though sleep is fled , poor Dermot wakes , To none but love and thee . Re - enter DARBY , L. [ Exit ...
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... thou that dear friend , then , my comfort , my pleasure , - A look is my sunshine , a smile is my treasure ; Thy lips , if consenting , give joy beyond measure : A rapture so perfect , what joy can transcend ! Nor . Do , sir , permit me ...
... thou that dear friend , then , my comfort , my pleasure , - A look is my sunshine , a smile is my treasure ; Thy lips , if consenting , give joy beyond measure : A rapture so perfect , what joy can transcend ! Nor . Do , sir , permit me ...
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... thou northern wind , - Be gentle unto me ; I lov'd a maiden most unkind , No fairer shall you see : Her vows were soft as western gale , Whilst flocks are penn'd in fold : I thought she listen'd to my tale , - She left me , ah ! for ...
... thou northern wind , - Be gentle unto me ; I lov'd a maiden most unkind , No fairer shall you see : Her vows were soft as western gale , Whilst flocks are penn'd in fold : I thought she listen'd to my tale , - She left me , ah ! for ...
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... thou'rt away , Must flow for thy returning Winding brooks , if by your side , My careless love is straying ; Gently murmur , softly chide , And say for him I'm staying . Meads and groves I've wander'd o'er , In vain , dear youth , to ...
... thou'rt away , Must flow for thy returning Winding brooks , if by your side , My careless love is straying ; Gently murmur , softly chide , And say for him I'm staying . Meads and groves I've wander'd o'er , In vain , dear youth , to ...
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... Thou little cheat , return my heart , For , if you've lost your own , " Tis but at best a roguish art To coax poor me with mine to part , And yours for ever gone . Hence , ye graces , smiles , and loves- Tender sigh and falling tear ...
... Thou little cheat , return my heart , For , if you've lost your own , " Tis but at best a roguish art To coax poor me with mine to part , And yours for ever gone . Hence , ye graces , smiles , and loves- Tender sigh and falling tear ...
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Ackee Alambra Allspice Barford better bless Carrydot Catharine Caustic Cohenberg Crack curricle dance Darby Dashall dear Demetrius Dermot devil Dominique door doth Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fairy Father Luke Faulkner fellow Ghita girl give happy hath hear heart Heartly heaven Helena Hermia Hippolyta honour Ismael Julia Kathlane Lady Sorrel Leopold Lilla look lord lovers LUDGATE HILL Lysander M'Que M'Query marry Mary Miss Monsieur never night Norah Oberon Oldskirt Patrick Paul Philostrate poor pray pretty Puck Pyramus racter SCENE Seraskier SIEGE OF BELGRADE Sir Edward Sir L Sir Larry soldier Solomon Gundy soul sure sweet Tangent tell THEATRES ROYAL thee there's Theseus thing Thisby thou Titania Virginia Yuseph Zounds
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Page 24 - Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain, As in revenge, have suck'd up from the sea Contagious fogs ; which falling in the land Have every pelting river made so proud That they have overborne their continents : The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain, The ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn Hath rotted ere his youth attain'da beard ; The fold stands empty in the drowned field, And crows are fatted with the murrain flock...
Page 42 - So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem : So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart ; Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.
Page 56 - 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 suppos'da bear ! Hip.
Page 15 - Thrice blessed they, that master so their blood, To undergo such maiden pilgrimage : But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness.
Page 18 - Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity : Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind ; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind...
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 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 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 56 - Lovers, and madmen, have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. 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...
Page 42 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence ? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate.