Miller's Modern Acting Drama, Consisting of the Most Popular Pieces Produced at the London Theatres, Subject to the Provisions of the Dramatic Copyright Act ...

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J. Miller, 1834
 

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الصفحة 39 - ... thousand crowns are at your disposal Couc. But Esmeralda may not perish ; though for her beauty I love her not. No ; harm must not reach her life — even for the gain of a million of crowns, every crown of gold. CLAUDE. To that, by bead and book, have I not solemnly sworn? I will keep my oath. Couc. Or terrible will be the fury of our tribe, on Clopin and on me, for daring, unknown to them, to tamper with the girl's life. CLAUDE. If nor prayers, nor suffering, can turn her heart unto me —...
الصفحة 23 - I am convinced he loves me — falsehood never veiled itself under looks like his ; deception never spoke in such sweet tones. Ah ! the clock of Notre Dame tolls nine ! (clock concludes striking) Phoebus ! — I — thou here again ! (trembling) CLAUDE. Esmeralda ! why tremble, why recoil at the sight of him that loves thee ? Hear me, one moment, in mercy — my passion is boundless — chainless as the sea ! If thou wouldst not drive me to a deed of madness, hear me ! ESMER. Have I not told thee...
الصفحة 49 - Mrs Bubb was gay and free, fair, fat, and forty-three, And blooming as a peony in buxom May ; The toast she long had been of Farringdon- Within, And fill'd the better-half of the one-horse chay.
الصفحة 17 - ... your success gives me, you would not speak so thoughtlessly of your happiness. I, too, am in pursuit of a lady — one to whom I am heart and soul devoted — who has treated me hardly and harshly — I never fancied...
الصفحة 21 - Esmeralda, Esmeralda ! Hence with these trembling drops ! The love that I shall ever feel for thee only, I have sworn to ; and what I have sworn to, I will die for. ESMER. Noble Phoebus, pardon ! I know, I feel that I have wronged thee ; but for a moment — the haughty looks of — my doubts — I was so very- wretched — -but hither comes the menial — perhaps to repel me from the door, (going) PHOSBUS.
الصفحة 38 - ... (Thrusting the cup into his robe.) Disclose not thou one syllable of this elsewhere. The innocent Bohemian is in safe hands — it will be her own fault if I effect not her deliverance. GRIN. Oh, charitable father, there is yet another innocent whose deliverance thou wouldst do well to effect. CLAUDE. (Coldly.) Speakst thou of Phoebus? GRIN. No, blessed saint; of myself, Gringoire, the poet. I am a lost child of the Muses. CLAUDE. How am I to save thee? GRIN.
الصفحة 10 - KSMKR. (recoiling at sight of GUDULE) Yes — yes, I am. Her child, as you know, was stolen by gipsies some years ago ; and I never pass the grated window of her solitary abode, that she does not call after and denounce me, as though I were the author of her misery. I, so humble, so defenceless ; but it is not of her I speak. (looking fearfully towards CLAUDE) MAHIET. No ! Of whom then f ESMER.
الصفحة 46 - Phrebus de Chateaupers, and of obstinately refusing to reveal the names of your confederates, it is the will of his Most Sacred Majesty King Louis of France, that you do pay the forfeit of your crime with your life, on this public scaffold ; and you are now asked, for the last time, will you, or will...
الصفحة 50 - I am sartin, may be trusted gig or cart in, He takes every matter in an easy way ; He'll stand like a post, while we dabble on the coast, And return back to dress in our one-horse chay.
الصفحة 14 - If you'd pass for somebody, you must sneer at a play, but idolize Punch. I know the most refined folks, who'd not budge a foot to hear Garrick, would give a guinea each — nay, mob for a whole morning — to see a Greenlander eat seal's flesh and swallow whale-oil.

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