The British Drama: A Collection of the Most Esteemed Tragedies, Comedies, Operas, and Farces in the English Language, 第 2 巻

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M. Polock, 1854
 

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242 ページ - Twere now to be most happy ; for, I fear, My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
459 ページ - tis grasped, the faster melts away. Poor reason ! what a wretched aid art thou ! -„• For still, in spite of thee, These two long lovers, soul and body, dread Their final separation. Let me think: What can I say, to save myself from death? No matter what becomes of Cleopatra.
449 ページ - Alex. Yes, a dear one; Your slave the queen Ant. My mistress. Alex. Then your mistress; Your mistress would, she says, have sent her soul, But that you had long since; she humbly begs This ruby bracelet, set with bleeding hearts, The emblems of her own, may bind your arm.
449 ページ - With ardour too heroic, on his foes, Fall down, as she would do, before his feet; Lie in his way, and stop the paths of death. Tell him, this god is not invulnerable; That absent Cleopatra bleeds in him; And, that you may remember her petition, She begs you wear these trifles, as a pawn, Which, at your wished return, she will redeem [Gives jewels to the Commanders.
337 ページ - What, dost thou think I fish without a bait, wench? I bob for fools? He is mine own, I have him. I told thee what would tickle him like a trout ; And, as I cast it, so I caught him daintily, And all he has I have stowed at my devotion.
395 ページ - Nay, you say true in that, it's but a folly to lie. For to speak one thing, and to think just the contrary way, is, as it were, to look one way, and to row another.
404 ページ - Nay, now you do me wrong, for if any interest was considered it was yours, since I thought I wanted more than love to make me worthy of you.
395 ページ - I'll speak truth, though one should always tell a lie to a man; and I don't care, let my father do what he will; I'm too big to be whipped so I'll tell you plainly I don't like you, nor love you at all, nor never will, that's more: so, there's your answer for you; and don't trouble me no more, you ugly thing!
82 ページ - Henceforth I will not wonder we were foes, Since souls that differ so, by nature hate, » And strong antipathy forbids their union. Baj. The noble fire that warms me does indeed Transcend thy coldness. I am pleased we differ, Nor think alike.
445 ページ - O, she has deck'd his ruin with her love, Led him in golden bands to gaudy slaughter, And made perdition pleasing : She has left him The blank of what he was...

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