A Series of Plays: In which it is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind, Each Passion Being the Subject of a Tragedy and a Comedy, Volume 1T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802 |
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Page 121 - The brave man is not he who feels no fear, . For that were stupid and irrational, But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
Page 325 - Page. So stately and so graceful is her form, I thought at first her stature was gigantic ; But on a near approach I found, in truth, She scarcely does surpass the middle size.
Page 328 - ... of pain ; The sight of me would wake his feeling mind To other thoughts. I am no doting mistress, No fond, distracted wife, who must forthwith Rush to his arms and weep. I am his sister : The eldest daughter of his father's house; Calm and unwearied is my love for him; And, having found him, patiently I'll wait, Nor greet him in the hour of social joy, To dash his mirth with tears.
Page 169 - I'll do whate'er thou wilt, I will be silent : But, O ! a reined tongue, and bursting heart, Are hard at once to bear. — Wilt thou forgive me?
Page 407 - Jane. [Raising him.] Well, then ; be thou my servant, and my friend. Art thou, good Jerome, too, in kindness come? I see thou art. How goes it with thine age? Jer. Ah, madam ! woe and weakness dwell with age: 'Would I could serve you with a young man's strength ! I'd spend my life for you. Jane. Thanks, worthy Jerome.
Page 308 - De Mon. (after drinking.) I thank you, Jerome, 'tis delicious. Jer. Ay, my dear wife did ever make it so.
Page 30 - I have mentioned as peculiarly belonging to tragedy, unveiling the human mind under the dominion of those strong and fixed passions, which seemingly unprovoked by outward circumstances, will from small beginnings brood within the breast, till all the better dispositions, all the fair gifts of nature are borne down before them, her poets in general have entirely neglected, and even her first and greatest have but imperfectly attempted.
Page 38 - These passions that may be suddenly excited, and are of short duration, as anger, fear, and oftentimes jealousy, may in this manner be fully represented ; but those great masters of the soul, ambition, hatred, love, every passion that is permanent in its nature, and varied in progress, if represented to us but in one stage of its course, is represented imperfectly.
Page 361 - I curb'd my spirit, And sought to soothe him. Then, with spiteful rage, From small offence he rear'da quarrel with me, And dar'd me to the field. The rest you know. In short, I still have been th' opposing rock, O'er which the stream of his o'erflowing pride Hath foam'd and fretted.
Page 86 - Without tormenting me with fruitless wishes ; Like the poor child who sees its brighten'd face, And whimpers for the moon ? Thou art not serious. From early youth, war has my mistress been, And tho' a rugged one, I'll constant prove, And not forsake her now.