Love for Love: A Comedy in Five ActsLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1808 - 90 pages |
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Alcanor Almeria Alphonso Angelica behold Bellamy better blood Body o'me breast canst Clar Clarinda COVENT GARDEN d'ye daughter dear death dost thou DRURY LANE Enter JEREMY Exeunt Exit eyes faith father fear FORESIGHT fortune Frank Frankly give hand happy hear heart Heav'n Heli Hercides honour hope horror husband Jacintha King kiss lady Laura look lord Love for Love Lucetta madam Mahomet marry mean Mecca MEGGOT Mirvan Miss never o'er Osmond Osmyn Palm Palmira pardon passion Phar PHARON poor pow'r rage Ranger sacred Scand Scandal SCENE secret Sicily Siffredi Sigismunda Sir Sampson slave soul speak Strict Strictland sword Tancred Tatt Tattle tears tell THEATRES ROYAL thee there's thing thou art thought tyrant Valentine vengeance virtue what's wife woman wretch Zaph Zaphna Zara
Popular passages
Page 6 - And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Page 6 - Looking tranquillity ! it strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
Page 32 - What, I warrant my son thought nothing belonged to a father but forgiveness and affection ; no authority, no correction, no arbitrary power ; nothing to be done, but for him to offend, and me to pardon. I warrant you, if he danced till doomsday, he thought I was to pay the piper. Well, but here it is under black and white...
Page 73 - Nay, now you do me wrong; for if any interest was considered it was yours; since I thought I wanted more than love to make me worthy of you.
Page 51 - I'll speak sooner than you should believe that ; and I'll speak truth, though one should always tell a lie to a man; and I don't care, let my father do what he will, I'm too big to be...
Page 52 - O my son ! from the blind dotage Of a father's fondness these ills arose; For thee I've been ambitious, base, and bloody: For thee I've...
Page 59 - I did not know you the World is full There are People that we do know, and People that we do not know; and yet the Sun shines upon all alike There are Fathers that have many Children ; and there are Children that have many Fathers 'tis strange ! But I am Truth, and come to give the World the Lie.
Page 11 - I'll pursue Angelica with more love than ever, and appear more notoriously her admirer in this restraint, than when I openly rivaled the rich fops that made court to her. So shall my poverty be a mortification to her pride, and perhaps make her compassionate the love, which has principally reduced me to this lowness of fortune.
Page 14 - Twas weak and wilful — and a woman's error. Yet, upon thought, it doubly wounds my sight, To see that sable worn upon the day, Succeeding that, in which our deadliest foe, Hated Anselmo, was...
Page 90 - You would all have the reward of love ; but few have the constancy to stay till it becomes your due. Men are generally hypocrites and infidels, they pretend to worship, but have neither zeal nor faith; how few, like Valentine, would persevere even to martyrdom, and sacrifice their interest to their constancy! In admiring me you misplace the novelty : — The miracle to-day is, that we find A lover true : not that a woman's kind.