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An army of bright beauties come with me ; ) Each lady shall her servant ' s actions
see : The fair and brave on each side shall contest ; And they shall overcome ,
who love the best . [ Exeunt . SCENE II . - - The Alhambra . Enter ZULEMA . Zul .
An army of bright beauties come with me ; ) Each lady shall her servant ' s actions
see : The fair and brave on each side shall contest ; And they shall overcome ,
who love the best . [ Exeunt . SCENE II . - - The Alhambra . Enter ZULEMA . Zul .
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Did I not love you , yet it were too base To let a lady suffer in my place . Those
proofs of virtue you before did show , I did admire ; but I must envy now . Your
vast ambition leaves no fame for me , But grasps at universal monarchy . Benz .
Did I not love you , yet it were too base To let a lady suffer in my place . Those
proofs of virtue you before did show , I did admire ; but I must envy now . Your
vast ambition leaves no fame for me , But grasps at universal monarchy . Benz .
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Enter FERDINAND , ISABELLA , Don ALONZO D ' AGUILAR ; Spaniards and
Ladies . K . Ferd . Already more than half the ... The valiant Moors like raging
lions fight ; Each youth encouraged by his lady ' s sight . Q . Isabel . I will advance
with ...
Enter FERDINAND , ISABELLA , Don ALONZO D ' AGUILAR ; Spaniards and
Ladies . K . Ferd . Already more than half the ... The valiant Moors like raging
lions fight ; Each youth encouraged by his lady ' s sight . Q . Isabel . I will advance
with ...
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Your ladies too , who , in their country ' s cause , Led on the men , shall share in
your applause ; And , for your sakes , henceforward I ordain , No lady ' s dower
shall questioned be in Spain . Fair Lyndaraxa , for the help she lent , Shall , under
...
Your ladies too , who , in their country ' s cause , Led on the men , shall share in
your applause ; And , for your sakes , henceforward I ordain , No lady ' s dower
shall questioned be in Spain . Fair Lyndaraxa , for the help she lent , Shall , under
...
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( Stabbing her with a poniard . ) This first shall know thy heart . Lyndar . O ! I am
slain ! Abdelm . Now , boast thy country is betrayed to Spain . K . Ferd . Look to
the lady ! - - Seize the murderer ! Abdelm . ( Stabbing himself ) I do myself that
justice ...
( Stabbing her with a poniard . ) This first shall know thy heart . Lyndar . O ! I am
slain ! Abdelm . Now , boast thy country is betrayed to Spain . K . Ferd . Look to
the lady ! - - Seize the murderer ! Abdelm . ( Stabbing himself ) I do myself that
justice ...
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Página 38 - But know, that I alone am king of me. I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Página 111 - As scriv'ners draw away the bankers' trade. Howe'er, the poet 's safe enough to-day, They cannot censure an unfinish'd play. But, as when vizard-mask appears in pit, Straight every man who thinks himself a wit Perks up, and, managing his comb with grace, With his white wig sets off his nut-brown face...
Página 3 - If from thy hands alone my death can be, I am immortal, and a god to thee. If I would kill thee now, thy fate's so low, That I must stoop ere I can give the blow : But mine is fixed so far above thy crown, That all thy men, Piled on thy back, can never pull it down.
Página 225 - The desire of imitating so great a pattern, first awakened the dull and heavy spirits of the English from their natural reservedness ; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation ; and made them easy and pliant to each other in discourse.
Página 220 - He is the very Janus of poets ; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.
Página 213 - Witness the lameness of their plots ; many of which, especially those which they writ first (for even that age refined itself in some measure), were made up of some ridiculous incoherent story, which in one play many times took up the business of an age.
Página 57 - ... less." In return for such proofs of tenderness as these, her admirer consents to murder his two sons and a benefactor to whom he feels the warmest gratitude. Lyndaraxa, in the Conquest of Granada, assumes the same lofty tone with Abdelmelech.
Página 14 - You have lost that which you call natural, and have not acquired the last perfection of art.
Página 232 - ... the ground, as if she were sinking under the conscious load of her own attractions ; then launches into a flood of fine language and compliment, still playing her chest forward in fifty falls and risings, like a swan upon waving water ; and, to complete her impertinence, she is so rapidly fond of her own wit, that she will not give her lover leave to praise it : silent, assenting bows, and vain endeavours to speak, are all the share of the conversation he is admitted to, which, at last, he is...
Página 118 - Love's an heroic passion, which can find No room in any base degenerate mind : It kindles all the soul with honour's fire, To make the lover worthy his desire.