Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: A Tragedy in Five ActsM. Carey and Sons, 1821 - 179 pages |
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ANGIOLINA ANTONIO aught Avogadori BATTISTA bear behold BENINTENDE BERTRAM BERTUCCIO FALIERO blood brave breath cause chief CITIZEN Conspirators council Council of Ten crime DAGOLINO dared death deeds Doge of Venice DOGE solus Doge's doth duty Exeunt eyes fain faith Farewell fathers feel foes forgive Forty gainst galley Genoese Giunta Guards hath hear heart Heaven honour hour Huns insult ISRAEL BERTUCCIO justice leave LIONI live lord MARIANNA MARINO FALIERO mercy Michel Steno ne'er nephew never night noble o'er offence pardon passions patrician pause peril Philip Calendaro PIETRO plebeian prince proud punishment rash ribaldry robes Saint Mark's Saracen senate sentence shame SIGNOR slave soul sovereign spare speak spirit strike sword thee thine things thou art thou hast thoughts throne traitor treason Treviso trust twas tyrants unto Venetian vile VINCENZO virtue words wouldst wrath wretch
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Page 107 - Rear'd up from out the waters, scarce less strangely Than those more massy and mysterious giants Of architecture, those Titanian fabrics, Which point in Egypt's plains to times that have No other record. All is gentle : nought Stirs rudely ; but, congenial with the night, Whatever walks is gliding like a spirit.
Page 68 - We must forget all feelings save the one — We must resign all passions save our purpose — We must behold no object save our country ~ And only look on death as beautiful, So that the sacrifice ascend to heaven, And draw down freedom on her evermore.
Page 173 - Have made thee last and worst of peopled deserts ; Then in the last gasp of thine agony, Amidst thy many murders, think of mine! Thou den of drunkards with the blood of princes ! " Gehenna of the waters ! thou sea Sodom ! Thus I devote thee to the infernal gods ! Thee and thy serpent seed ! [Here the DOGE turns, and addresses the Executioner.
Page 58 - His majesty of superhuman manhood, Would not suffice to bind where virtue is not ; It is consistency which forms and proves it : Vice cannot fix, and virtue cannot change. The once...