The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays: Which are Acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and Haymarket ...Mrs. Inchbald Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808 - English drama |
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... keeps our fortunes from us ' till age will not suffer us to enjoy them ; I am weary of the tyranny . Come to me , that of this I may speak more . If our father would sleep till I waked him , you should enjoy half his posses- sions , and ...
... keeps our fortunes from us ' till age will not suffer us to enjoy them ; I am weary of the tyranny . Come to me , that of this I may speak more . If our father would sleep till I waked him , you should enjoy half his posses- sions , and ...
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... What services canst thou do ? Kent . I can keep honest counsel , mar a curious tale in the telling , deliver a plain message bluntly ; that , which ordinary men are fit for , I C 3 SCENE III . ] 37 KING LEAR . SCENE III. ...
... What services canst thou do ? Kent . I can keep honest counsel , mar a curious tale in the telling , deliver a plain message bluntly ; that , which ordinary men are fit for , I C 3 SCENE III . ] 37 KING LEAR . SCENE III. ...
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... keep an hundred knights and squires , Men so debauch'd and bold , that this our palace Shows like a riotous inn , a tavern , brothel : Be then advis'd by her , that else will take That which she begs , to lessen your attendants ; Take ...
... keep an hundred knights and squires , Men so debauch'd and bold , that this our palace Shows like a riotous inn , a tavern , brothel : Be then advis'd by her , that else will take That which she begs , to lessen your attendants ; Take ...
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... Keep peace upon your lives ; he dies that strikes . Whence , and what are ye ? Reg . The messengers from our sister , and the king . Corn . Your difference ? speak . Osw . I'm scarce in breath , my lord . Kent . No marvel , you have so ...
... Keep peace upon your lives ; he dies that strikes . Whence , and what are ye ? Reg . The messengers from our sister , and the king . Corn . Your difference ? speak . Osw . I'm scarce in breath , my lord . Kent . No marvel , you have so ...
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... keep that life afoot . My face I will besmear , and knit my locks ; The country gives me proof and precedent Of Bedlam beggars , who , with roaring voices , Strike in their numb'd and mortify'd bare arms Pins , iron spikes , thorns ...
... keep that life afoot . My face I will besmear , and knit my locks ; The country gives me proof and precedent Of Bedlam beggars , who , with roaring voices , Strike in their numb'd and mortify'd bare arms Pins , iron spikes , thorns ...
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Page 40 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 8 - Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in, And bade him follow : so, indeed, he did. The torrent roar'd ; and we did buffet it With lusty sinews ; throwing it aside, And stemming it with hearts of controversy. But ere we could arrive the point propos'd, Caesar cried,
Page 41 - Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony : who, though he had no hand in his death, shall receive the benefit of his dying...
Page 20 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly; if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch ' With his surcease success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come.
Page 24 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight ? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain ? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw.
Page 9 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Page 10 - Things that do sound so fair? — 1' the name of truth, Are ye fantastical, or that indeed Which outwardly ye show ? My noble partner You greet with present grace, and great prediction Of noble having, and of royal hope, That he seems rapt withal ; to me you speak not ; If you can look into the seeds of time, And say, which grain will grow, and which will not, (1) A man forbid, — one under a curse, accursed. Speak then to me, who neither beg, nor fear, Your favours nor your hate.
Page 24 - I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw. Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going; And such an instrument I was to use. Mine eyes are made the fools o...
Page 22 - When Duncan is asleep, (Whereto the rather shall his day's hard journey Soundly invite him,) his two chamberlains Will I with wine and wassel so convince, That memory, the warder of the brain, Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason A limbeck only : When in swinish sleep Their drenched natures lie, as in a death, What cannot you and I perform upon Th' unguarded Duncan ? what not put upon.
Page 19 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting. martlet, does approve, By his lov'd mansionry, that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coigne of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed, and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observ'd, The air is delicate.