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[ ALMANZOR goes to the door , and there seems to give out orders , by sending
people several ways . Selin to Ozmyn . Now , to revenge the murder of my son ,
To morrow for thy certain death prepare ; ) This night I only leave thee to despair .
[ ALMANZOR goes to the door , and there seems to give out orders , by sending
people several ways . Selin to Ozmyn . Now , to revenge the murder of my son ,
To morrow for thy certain death prepare ; ) This night I only leave thee to despair .
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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
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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
...
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Aben . Believe him sent as prince Abdalla ' s spy ; He would betray us to the
enemy . Almanz . Were I , like thee , in cheats of state grown old , ( Those public
markets , where , for foreign gold , . . The poorest prince is to the richest sold )
Then ...
Aben . Believe him sent as prince Abdalla ' s spy ; He would betray us to the
enemy . Almanz . Were I , like thee , in cheats of state grown old , ( Those public
markets , where , for foreign gold , . . The poorest prince is to the richest sold )
Then ...
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How I love thee heaven can only tell : And yet I love thee , for a subject , well . -
Yet , whatsoever charms a crown can bring , A subject ' s greater than a little king
. I will attend till time this throne secure ; And SCENE II . 79 THE CONQUEST OF
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How I love thee heaven can only tell : And yet I love thee , for a subject , well . -
Yet , whatsoever charms a crown can bring , A subject ' s greater than a little king
. I will attend till time this throne secure ; And SCENE II . 79 THE CONQUEST OF
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... st hinder , done by thee . Here , [ Gives her his sword . ] take the sword , and do
a sister ' s part : Pierce his , fond girl , or I will pierce thy heart . Ozm . To his
commands I join my own request ; All wounds from you are welcome to my breast
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... st hinder , done by thee . Here , [ Gives her his sword . ] take the sword , and do
a sister ' s part : Pierce his , fond girl , or I will pierce thy heart . Ozm . To his
commands I join my own request ; All wounds from you are welcome to my breast
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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.