The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays: Which are Acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and Haymarket ... |
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Page 6 - I am not insensible of the dangers that must attend such a journey. Trusting, however, in the protection of that kind Providence which has hitherto preserved me, I calmly and cheerfully commit myself to the disposal of unerring wisdom. Should it please God to cut off my life in the prosecution of this design, let not my conduct be uncandidly imputed to rashness or enthusiasm, but to a serious, deliberate conviction that I am pursuing the path of duty ; and to a sincere desire of being made an instrument...
Page 44 - Thou hast not looked up with gratitude, nor around thee with kindness. Around thee, thou hast indeed beheld vice and folly ; but if vice and folly could justify thy parsimony, would they not condemn the bounty of Heaven ? If not upon the foolish and the vicious, where shall the sun...
Page 43 - The prisoner is your subject. There, misery, more contagious than disease, preys on the lives of hundreds : sentenced but to confinement, their doom is death. Immured in damp and dreary vaults, they daily perish ; and who can tell but that, among...
Page 69 - But I am ready to take another oath, and another after that, and another after that — And, Oh ! my dear Maria, be propitious to my vows, and give me hopes you will again be mine. [He goes to her, and kneels in the most supplicating Attitude.
Page 43 - Suit. ENGLISHMAN, you were invited hither to receive public thanks for our troops restored to health by your prescriptions. Ask a reward adequate to your services. Hasw. Sultan, the reward I ask, is, leave to preserve more of your people still. Suit. How more? my subjects are in health; no contagion visits them. Hasw. The prisoner is your subject. There, misery, more contagious than disease, preys on the lives of hundreds : sentenced but to confinement, their doom is death. Immured...
Page 76 - I would not add to your grief for the world. — But then, pray do not speak of what I am going to say. — I heard my Lord's lawyer tell him just now, "that as he said he should not know the person again, who committed the offence about which you came, and as the man who informed against him...
Page 16 - This is a weakness I confess. But though my honour sometimes reproaches me with it as a fault, my conscience never does: for it is by this very failing that I have frequently made the bitterest enemies friends — Just by saying a few harmless sentences, which, though a species of falsehood and deceit, yet, being soothing and acceptable to the person offended, I have immediately inspired him with lenity and forgiveness; and then, by only repeating the self-same sentences to his opponent, I have known...
Page 68 - Oh, my dear Miss Wooburn — What! Sir Robert here too ! [Goes to Sir ROBERT and shakes hands] How do you do, Sir Robert? Who would have thought of seeing you here ? I am glad to see you though, with all my heart; and so I dare say is Miss Wooburn, though she may not like to say so. Miss Woo.
Page 39 - In this rugged way, choked with the weeds of suspicion, jealousy, anger, and hatred, they take their daily journey, till one of these also sleep in death. The other then lifts up his dejected head, and calls out in acclamations of joy — Oh, liberty! dear liberty!
Page 26 - But if you have an unconquerable desire to part, a separate maintenance will answer nearly the same end — for if your Lady and you will only lay down the plan of separation, and agree Placid. But, unfortunately, we never do agree ! Sir Robt.