... Early Dramas and Romances: The Robbers, Fiesco, Love and Intrigue, Demetrius, The Ghost-seer, and The Sport of Destiny

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H. G. Bohn, 1849 - 493 pagina's

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Pagina 42 - And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning.
Pagina 42 - And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him ; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.
Pagina 86 - No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it; as thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth...
Pagina 117 - Who told thee that ? MOSER. Woe to him that hath them both upon his soul ! It were better for that man that he had never been born ! But be at peace ; you have no longer either a father or a brother ! FRANCIS.
Pagina 104 - I'll cross it though it blast me; stay, illusion; If thou hast any sound or use of voice, Speak to me, If there be any good thing to be done That may to thee do ease, and grace to me, Speak to me, If thou art privy to thy country's fate, (Which happily foreknowing may avoid) O, speak!
Pagina 484 - G rose with rapidity from one promotion to another ; but, whatever the extent of favours conferred, they still seemed in the estimation of the prince to fall short of his deserts. His fortune advanced with gigantic strides, for the author of his greatness was his devoted admirer and his warmest friend. Not yet twenty-two years of age, he already saw himself placed on an eminence hitherto attained only by the most fortunate at the close of their career. But his active spirit was incapable of reposing...
Pagina 489 - ... prince, he was borne at a slow pace. After he had suffered all the torture of anticipated execution the carriage turned off into the public road. Exposed to the sultry summer-heat, without refreshment or human consolation, he passed seven dreadful hours in journeying to the place of destination — a prison fortress. It was nightfall before he arrived ; when, bereft of all consciousness, more dead than alive, his giant strength having at length yielded to twelve hours...
Pagina 491 - All vital signs seemed fled from his countenance; grief and despair had traced deep furrows there; his beard and nails were grown to a frightful length ; his raiment had fallen from about him in tatters ; and, for want of water and all means of cleanliness, the air was contaminated around. In this state he found the favourite of fortune; his iron frame had stood proof against the severity of his trial. Almost terrified at the sight, the pastor soon hastened back to the governor, in order to solicit...
Pagina xiv - ... requires, and the dangers which attend them. A remarkable and important personage, abundantly endowed with the power of becoming either a Brutus or a Catiline, according -as that power is directed. An unhappy conjunction of circumstances determines him to choose the latter for his example, and it is only after a fearful straying that he is 1 recalled to emulate the former.
Pagina 41 - tis a lost fear; Man but a rush against Othello's breast, And he retires. — Where should Othello go? Now, how dost thou look now? O ill-starr'd wench! Pale as thy smock! when we shall meet at compt, This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven, And fiends will snatch at it.

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