Tragedies: By Hugh Downman, M.D.E. Grigg, 1792 - 322 pages |
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Page 123 - O'er her dead father's corse, 'twill cry, Revenge ! Ask yonder senate-house, whose stones are purple With human blood, and it will cry, Revenge...
Page 14 - Grant but the time, Grant but the moment, gods ! If I am wanting, May I drag out this idiot-feigned life To late old age, and may posterity Ne'er hear of Junius but as Tarquin's fool ! [Exit Lucius JUNIUS.
Page 13 - When will the tedious gods permit thy soul To walk abroad in her own majesty, * And throw this vizor of thy madness from thee, To avenge my father's and my brother's murder ? (And sweet, I must confess, would be the draught...
Page 74 - No, my good lord; Those to whom love and my respect are due Can ne'er intrude upon me ; had I known This visit, you, perhaps, might have been treated With better cheer, not a more kind reception. This evening little did I think my house Would have possessed such lodgers.
Page 123 - And the poor queen, who loved him as her son, Their unappeased ghosts will shriek, Revenge! The temples of the gods, the all-viewing heavens, The gods themselves shall justify the cry, And swell the general sound, Revenge ! Revenge ! And we will be revenged, my countrymen!
Page 74 - If aught the house affords, my dearest love, To set before your guests, I pray prepare it: We must be at the camp ere morning dawn. An hour or two will be the utmost limit Allowed us here.
Page 16 - ... lost Lucretia sleeps in death ! She was the mark and model of the time, The mould in which each female face was...
Page 75 - tis a wife Of wives — a precious diamond, picked From out the common pebbles. To have found her At work among her maids at this late hour, And not displeased at our rude interruption — Not to squeeze out a quaint apology, As, " I am quite ashamed ; so unprepared ! Who could have thought! Would I had known of it!
Page 54 - Sailed in full state along. — But Sextus' judgment Owns not his words, — and the resemblance glances On others, not on him. Sex. Let it glance where and upon whom it will, Sextus is mighty careless of the matter. Now hear what I have seen.
Page 12 - T is my constant prayer To Heaven, that I may one day have the power To pay the debt I owe him. But stay — stay — I brought a message to you from the king.