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... DEMETRIUS . -How chang'd , alas ! —Now ghastly desolation , In triumph , sits upon our shatter'd spires ; Now ... DEMETRIUS . Aspasia ! -spare that lov'd , that mournful name : Dear , hapless maid - tempestuous grief o'erbears My ...
... DEMETRIUS . -How chang'd , alas ! —Now ghastly desolation , In triumph , sits upon our shatter'd spires ; Now ... DEMETRIUS . Aspasia ! -spare that lov'd , that mournful name : Dear , hapless maid - tempestuous grief o'erbears My ...
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... Demetrius , from this dismal dream ; Sink not beneath imaginary sorrows ; Call to your aid your courage and your wisdom ; Think on the sudden change of human scenes ; Think on the various accidents of war ; Think on the mighty pow'r of ...
... Demetrius , from this dismal dream ; Sink not beneath imaginary sorrows ; Call to your aid your courage and your wisdom ; Think on the sudden change of human scenes ; Think on the various accidents of war ; Think on the mighty pow'r of ...
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... DEMETRIUS . When the tenth sun had set upon our sorrows , At midnight's private hour , a voice unknown Sounds in my sleeping ear , Awake , Demetrius , Awake , and follow me to better fortunes . ' Surpris'd I start , and bless the happy ...
... DEMETRIUS . When the tenth sun had set upon our sorrows , At midnight's private hour , a voice unknown Sounds in my sleeping ear , Awake , Demetrius , Awake , and follow me to better fortunes . ' Surpris'd I start , and bless the happy ...
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... DEMETRIUS . Reserve these questions for a safer hour ; Or hear himself , for see the bassa comes . SCENE II . DEMETRIUS , LEONTIUS , CALI . CALI . Now summon all thy soul , illustrious christian ! Awake each faculty that sleeps within ...
... DEMETRIUS . Reserve these questions for a safer hour ; Or hear himself , for see the bassa comes . SCENE II . DEMETRIUS , LEONTIUS , CALI . CALI . Now summon all thy soul , illustrious christian ! Awake each faculty that sleeps within ...
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... Demetrius will not lead me to dishonour ; Consult in private , call me , when your scheme Is ripe for action , and demands the sword . [ Going . Leontius , stay . DEMETRIUS . CALI . Forgive an old man's weakness , And share the deepest ...
... Demetrius will not lead me to dishonour ; Consult in private , call me , when your scheme Is ripe for action , and demands the sword . [ Going . Leontius , stay . DEMETRIUS . CALI . Forgive an old man's weakness , And share the deepest ...
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Página xxvi - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, My Lord, Your Lordship's most humble Most obedient servant, SAM. JOHNSON.
Página lxvii - Ay, sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. Pol. ' That's very true, my lord. Ham. For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing carrion — 'Have you a daughter ? Pol. I have, my lord. Ham. Let her not walk i' the sun : conception is a blessing ; but not as your daughter may conceive.
Página 5 - Speak thou, whose thoughts at humble peace repine, Shall Wolsey's wealth, with Wolsey's end, be thine? Or liv'st thou now, with safer pride content, The wisest justice on the banks of Trent? For, why did Wolsey, near the steeps of fate, On weak foundations raise th
Página 10 - New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens, or a daughter mourns. Now kindred Merit fills the sable bier, Now lacerated Friendship claims a tear.
Página xlvi - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Página 255 - This opinion, which perhaps, prevails, as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth : those that never heard of one another, would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence; and some, who deny it with their tongues, confess it by their fears d.
Página 7 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide. A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire...
Página xviii - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Página 187 - The place which the wisdom or policy of antiquity had destined for the residence of the Abyssinian princes, was a spacious valley in the kingdom of Amhara, surrounded on every side by mountains, of which the summits overhang the middle part.
Página 8 - But did not chance at length her error mend? Did no subverted empire mark his end? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound? Or hostile millions press him to the ground? His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.