Dramas, Tragic, Comic and Legendary, Volume 2C. Dolman, 1853 |
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ABENHUMEYA ALCUZCUZ Alpujarra beauty behold Berja bosom breast Calderon CELIA CHLORIS Christian CLARA CORREGIDOR daring dark death DON ALVARO DON JOHN Don Juan Don Lope doth dread DUKE earth Egerio ENRICO Enter DON Exeunt Exit eyes FABIO fair fate favour fear feel feet fire flame flower Galera GARCES give Granada grief hand hath hear heart Heaven hither honour hope ISABEL jealousy JOHN OF AUSTRIA Juan de Mendoza kill KING LAOGHAIRE LESBIA LIDORA LISIDA live LOPE DE FIGUEROA lord LUCY LUDOVICO MALECA Moorish Moors Morisco mountain never night NISE o'er OCTAVIO pain PATRICK Patrick's Purgatory PAUL perchance PHILIP pity POLONIA PONLEVI prisoner Purchena Purgatory SAINT PATRICK Sancho de Avila scarf SCENE seek sing soldier sorrow soul Spain speak sword tell thee thou art thou'lt to-day TUZANÍ twas twere unto VALOR vengeance wild wish wonder
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Page 403 - Not a hair-worth of white, which some will say Weakens his price, and many will not buy His goodness with this note ; which superstition Here finds allowance, — on this horse is Arcite Trotting the stones of Athens, which the calkins...
Page 216 - I remember Two miles on this side of the fort, the road Crosses a deep ravine ; 'tis rough and narrow, And winds with short turns down the precipice; And in its depth there is a mighty rock, Which has, from unimaginable years, Sustained itself with terror and with toil Over a gulf, and with the agony With which it clings seems slowly coming down...
Page 216 - Over a gulf, and with the agony With which it clings seems slowly coming down; Even as a wretched soul hour after hour, Clings to the mass of life; yet clinging, leans; And leaning, makes more dark the dread abyss In which it fears to fall: beneath this crag, Huge as despair, as if in weariness, The melancholy mountain yawns; below...
Page 398 - ... perfectly bright. Blessed man ! he had escaped from the wild labyrinths of doubt into the stronghold of belief ; from thence, with undisturbed tranquillity of soul, he beheld and portrayed the storms of the world : to him human life was no longer a dark riddle.
Page 403 - Came music's origin), what envious flint, Cold as old Saturn, and like him possess'd With fire malevolent, darted a spark, Or what fierce sulphur else, to this end made, I comment not ; the hot horse, hot as fire, Took toy at this, and fell to what disorder His power could give his will, bounds...
Page 179 - THOU art, O God ! the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see ; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from thee. Where'er we turn thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are thine.
Page 234 - To Thee, O Lord, my spirit climbs, To Thee from every lonely hill I burn to sacrifice my will A thousand and a thousand times. And such my boundless love to Thee I wish each will of mine a living soul could be. Would that my love I could have shown, By leaving for Thy sake, instead Of that poor crown that press'd my head, Some proud, imperial crown and throne — Some empire which the sun surveys Through all its daily course and gilds with constant rays. * This lowly grot, 'neath rocks uphurled,...
Page 403 - Seem'd with strange art to hang: his victor's wreath Even then fell off his head ; and presently Backward the jade comes o'er, and his full poise Becomes the rider's load. Yet is he living; But such a vessel 'tis that floats but for The surge that next approaches : he much desires To have some speech with you. Lo, he appears.
Page 403 - With fire malevolent, darted a spark, Or what fierce sulphur else, to this end made, I comment not ; the hot horse, hot as fire, Took toy at this and fell to what disorder His power could give his will, bounds, comes on end, Forgets school-doing, being therein...
Page 403 - I comment not ; the hot horse, hot as fire, Took toy' at this, and fell to what disorder His power could give his will ; bounds ; comes on end ; Forgets school-doing, being therein train'd, And of kind manage ; pig-like he whines At the sharp rowel, which he frets at rather Than any jot obeys ; seeks all foul means Of boisterous and rough jadery, to dis-seat His lord that kept it bravely.