The mourning bride. The way of the world. The judgment of Paris. Semele. Poems on several occasionsT. Lowndes, T. Caslon, T. Davies, W. Nicoll, S. Bladon and R. Snagg, 1774 |
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... Neceffity , I must be miferable ? Is it of Moment to the Peace of Heav'n That I shou'd be afflicted thus ? If not , Why is it thus contriv'd ? Why are Things laid By By fome unfeen Hand , so , as of fure 14 THE MOURNING BRIDE .
... Neceffity , I must be miferable ? Is it of Moment to the Peace of Heav'n That I shou'd be afflicted thus ? If not , Why is it thus contriv'd ? Why are Things laid By By fome unfeen Hand , so , as of fure 14 THE MOURNING BRIDE .
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... Heav'n spar'd me for yet much more Affliction ! Conducting them who follow'd us , to shun The Shoal , and save me floating on the Waves , While the good Queen and my Alphonso perish'd . Leon . Alas ! Were you then wedded to Alphonso ...
... Heav'n spar'd me for yet much more Affliction ! Conducting them who follow'd us , to shun The Shoal , and save me floating on the Waves , While the good Queen and my Alphonso perish'd . Leon . Alas ! Were you then wedded to Alphonso ...
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... Heav'n , with Pity on her Sor- rows , And grant , that Time may bring her fome Relief . * Alm . O no ! Time gives Increase to my Afflictions . The circling Hours , that gather all the Woes , Which are diffus'd thro ' the revolving Year ...
... Heav'n , with Pity on her Sor- rows , And grant , that Time may bring her fome Relief . * Alm . O no ! Time gives Increase to my Afflictions . The circling Hours , that gather all the Woes , Which are diffus'd thro ' the revolving Year ...
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... Heav'n where my Alphonso reigns , Behold thou also , and attend my Vow . If ever I do yield , or give Consent , By any Action , Word or Thought , to wed Another Lord ; may then just Heav'n show'r down Unheard - of Curses on me , greater ...
... Heav'n where my Alphonso reigns , Behold thou also , and attend my Vow . If ever I do yield , or give Consent , By any Action , Word or Thought , to wed Another Lord ; may then just Heav'n show'r down Unheard - of Curses on me , greater ...
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... Heav'n with Thanks . Gons . Excellent Princess ! But ' tis a Task unfit for my weak Age , With dying Words , to offer at your Praise . Garcia , my Son , your Beauty's lowest Slave , Has better done , in proving with his Sword The Force ...
... Heav'n with Thanks . Gons . Excellent Princess ! But ' tis a Task unfit for my weak Age , With dying Words , to offer at your Praise . Garcia , my Son , your Beauty's lowest Slave , Has better done , in proving with his Sword The Force ...
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Page 102 - I'll tell thee, Fainall, she once used me with that insolence that in revenge I took her to pieces, sifted her, and separated her failings: I studied 'em and got 'em by rote. The catalogue was so large that I was not without hopes, one day or other, to hate her heartily. To which end I so used myself to think of 'em, that at length, contrary...
Page 159 - I'll fly, and be followed to the last moment. Though I am upon the very verge of matrimony, I expect you should solicit me as much as if I were wavering at the grate of a monastery, with one foot over the threshold. I'll be solicited to the very last, nay, and afterwards.
Page 27 - Whistling thro' hollows of this vaulted aisle; We'll listenLeonora. Hark! Almeria. No, all is hush'd and still as death, — Tis dreadful! How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity!
Page 160 - Sunday in a new chariot, to provoke eyes and whispers; and then never to be seen there together again; as if we were proud of one another the first week, and ashamed of one another ever after. Let us never visit together, nor go to a play together, but let us be very strange...
Page 181 - Oh, she would have swooned at the sight or name of an obscene play-book !— and can I think, after all this, that my daughter can be naught? What, a whore? and thought it excommunication to set her foot within the door of a playhouse! O dear friend, I can't believe it, no, no! As she says, let him prove it, let him prove it.
Page 125 - I ask your pardon for that —one's cruelty is one's power; and when one parts with one's cruelty, one parts with one's power; and when one has parted with that, I fancy one's old and ugly.
Page 176 - Pray do but hear me, madam; he could not marry your ladyship, madam. No indeed, his marriage was to have been void in law; for he was married to me first, to secure your ladyship. He could not have bedded your ladyship, for if he had consummated with your ladyship, he must have run the risk of the law, and been put upon his clergy.
Page 101 - I am of another opinion. The greater the coxcomb, always the more the scandal: for a woman who is not a fool can have but one reason for associating with a man who is one.
Page 147 - This is a vile Dog, I see that already. No Offence ! Ha, ha, ha, to him ; to him, Petulant, smoke him.
Page 28 - 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.