British Theatre: The orphan, by Thomas Otway. 1791. Cato, by Joseph Addison. 1791J. Bell, 1791 |
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... thing that might be worthy to lay at your Highness's feet , and finding it impossible : since the world has been so kind to me to judge of this poem LO my ad- Ovantage , as the most pardonable fault , which I had made in its kind , I ...
... thing that might be worthy to lay at your Highness's feet , and finding it impossible : since the world has been so kind to me to judge of this poem LO my ad- Ovantage , as the most pardonable fault , which I had made in its kind , I ...
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... thing in this ad- dress , that might look like a panegyric , for fear , lest when I have done my best , the world should condemn me for saying too little , and you yourself check me for meddling with a task unfit for my talent . For the ...
... thing in this ad- dress , that might look like a panegyric , for fear , lest when I have done my best , the world should condemn me for saying too little , and you yourself check me for meddling with a task unfit for my talent . For the ...
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... thing about him has a tinge of licenti- ousness - The compact enter'd into by his Twin Bro- thers surely never in a civilized country could occur ; and , if it could , they both richly deserved to suffer from the hand of the executioner ...
... thing about him has a tinge of licenti- ousness - The compact enter'd into by his Twin Bro- thers surely never in a civilized country could occur ; and , if it could , they both richly deserved to suffer from the hand of the executioner ...
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... thing ye scorn and publicly disown . Though now , perhaps , ye're here for other ends , He swears to me ye ought to be his friends : For he ne'er call'd ye yet insipid tools ; Nor wrote one line to tell ye you were fools : But says of ...
... thing ye scorn and publicly disown . Though now , perhaps , ye're here for other ends , He swears to me ye ought to be his friends : For he ne'er call'd ye yet insipid tools ; Nor wrote one line to tell ye you were fools : But says of ...
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... things of him might charm the ears of Envy . " Paul . Oh , may he live till nature's self grows old , " And from her ... thing he calls his own , " But of each other's joys , as griefs , partaking ; " So very honestly , so well they love ...
... things of him might charm the ears of Envy . " Paul . Oh , may he live till nature's self grows old , " And from her ... thing he calls his own , " But of each other's joys , as griefs , partaking ; " So very honestly , so well they love ...
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Acast AMBROSE PHILIPS Andr Andromache arms Astyanax bear beauty behold blest blood brave brother Cæsar Cast Castalio Cato Cato's Ceph Cephisa Chamont Chap charms Cleo Cleone death Decius dost thou e'er Enter Epirus ev'n ev'ry Exeunt Exit eyes false fate father fear fortune friendship give gods Greece Greeks grief guards happy hate hear heart Heav'n Hector Hermione honour hope Juba king live lord lov'd Lucia Lucius madam maid Marc Marcia Marcus Monimia ne'er never Numidian o'er Orest passion Phan Pharsalia Phoenix pity Polydore Portius Pr'ythee prince Pylades Pyrrhus rage Roman Roman senate Rome SCENE scorn Sempronius senate shew sorrows soul speak sure sword Syph Syphax tears tell thee thou hast thought Troy Twas Twill tyrant unhappy virtue vows wilt thou woman wouldst thou wretch wrong'd
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الصفحة 78 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man ! Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes...
الصفحة 79 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
الصفحة 79 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
الصفحة 78 - Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.
الصفحة 79 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
الصفحة x - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
الصفحة 18 - Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.
الصفحة 34 - CATO. Let|| not a torrent of impetuous zeal Transport thee thus beyond the bounds of REASON : True FORTITUDE is seen in great exploits, That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides: All else is tow'ring frenzy and distraction.
الصفحة 24 - Then rises fresh, pursues his wonted game, And if the following day he chance to find A new repast, or an untasted spring, Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.
الصفحة 63 - Forbear, Sempronius ! — see they suffer death, But in their deaths remember they are men. Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous. Lucius, the base degenerate age requires Severity, and justice in its rigour; This awes an impious...