The Mourning Bride: A TragedyJ. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 - 71 pages |
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... gives the Lofers leave to Speak . But if , provok'd , your dreadful Wrath remains , Take your Revenge upon the coming Scenes : For that damn'd Poet's spard who damns a brother , As one Thief'scapes that executes another . Thus far alone ...
... gives the Lofers leave to Speak . But if , provok'd , your dreadful Wrath remains , Take your Revenge upon the coming Scenes : For that damn'd Poet's spard who damns a brother , As one Thief'scapes that executes another . Thus far alone ...
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... gives encrease to my afflictions . The circling hours , that gather all the woes , Which are diffus'd thro ' the revolving year , Come heavy - laden with th ' oppreffing weight , To me ; with me , successively , they leave The fighs ...
... gives encrease to my afflictions . The circling hours , that gather all the woes , Which are diffus'd thro ' the revolving year , Come heavy - laden with th ' oppreffing weight , To me ; with me , successively , they leave The fighs ...
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... give confent , By any action , word , or thought , to wed Another lord ; may then just heav'n show'r down Unheard of curses on me , greater far ( If such there be it . angry heav'n's vengeance ) Than any I have endur'd and now My heart ...
... give confent , By any action , word , or thought , to wed Another lord ; may then just heav'n show'r down Unheard of curses on me , greater far ( If such there be it . angry heav'n's vengeance ) Than any I have endur'd and now My heart ...
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... pleasure , fir ? King . Draw near , and give your hand ; and , Garcia yours : Receive this lord , as one whom I have found Worthy to be your husband , and my fon . Gar . 1 1 Gar . Thus let me kneel to take - The MOURNING BRIDE . 17.
... pleasure , fir ? King . Draw near , and give your hand ; and , Garcia yours : Receive this lord , as one whom I have found Worthy to be your husband , and my fon . Gar . 1 1 Gar . Thus let me kneel to take - The MOURNING BRIDE . 17.
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... give , are yours . A conqueror indeed , where you are won ; Who with such lustre strike admiring eyes , That had our pomp been with your prefence grac'd , Th ' expecting crowd had been deceiv'd ; and seen Their monarch enter not ...
... give , are yours . A conqueror indeed , where you are won ; Who with such lustre strike admiring eyes , That had our pomp been with your prefence grac'd , Th ' expecting crowd had been deceiv'd ; and seen Their monarch enter not ...
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Page 23 - Looking tranquillity! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart.
Page 23 - And shoot a chilness 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 11 - No time shall raze thee from my memory ; No, I will live to be thy monument; The cruel ocean is no more thy tomb: But in my heart thou art interred ; there, there, Thy dear resemblance is for ever fixed; My love, my lord, my husband still, though lost.
Page 9 - I've read, that things inanimate have mov'd, And, as with living souls, have been inform'd By magic numbers and persuasive sound.
Page 38 - But destiny and inauspicious stars Have cast me down to this low being : or, Granting you had, from you I have deserved it.
Page 68 - Had they or hearts or eyes, that did this deed ! Could eyes endure to guide such cruel hands? Are not my eyes guilty alike with theirs, That thus can gaze, and yet not turn to stone ? I do not weep ! The springs of tears are...
Page 34 - tis torn off— Why should that word alone Be torn from his petition ? 'Twas to Heav'n, But Heav'n was deaf, Heav'n heard him not ; but thus, Thus as the name of Heav'n from this is torn, So did it tear the ears of mercy from His voice, shutting the gates of pray'r against him. If piety be thus debarr'd...
Page 40 - My life, my health, my liberty, my all! How shall I welcome thee to this sad place? How speak to thee the words of joy and transport? How run into thy arms •withheld by fetters ? Or take thee into mine, while I'm thus manacled And pinion'd like a thief or murderer...
Page 32 - I'll give thee liberty. Osm. In vain you offer, and in vain require What neither can bestow : set free yourself, And leave a slave the wretch that would be so.
Page 39 - Heaven ! my fears interpret This thy silence : somewhat of high concern, Long fashioning within thy labouring mind, And now just ripe for birth, my rage has ruin'd. Have I done this ? Tell me, am I so cursed ? Osm.