The adventures of a man of family, Volume 2

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Page 285 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 45 - Perhaps (for who can guess th' effects of chance ?) Here Hunt may box, or Mahomet may dance. Hard is his lot that, here by Fortune placed, Must watch the wild vicissitudes of taste ; With every meteor of caprice must play. And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies...
Page 45 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Page 194 - Finds no acceptance, nor can find ; for how Can hearts, not free, be tried whether they serve Willing or no, who will but what the'y must By destiny, and can no other choose?
Page 197 - Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.
Page 43 - I pray you, speak not ; he grows worse and worse; Question enrages him : at once, good night : — Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.
Page 1 - Would the high family of Brutus grace. Shameful are these examples, yet we find (To Rome's disgrace) far worse than these behind; Poor Damasippus, whom we once have known Fluttering with coach and six about the town, Is forc'd to make the stage his last retreat, And pawns his voice, the all he has, for meat...
Page 247 - Now all deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
Page 3 - He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.
Page 171 - Ne let the same of any be envied : So Orpheus did for his own bride! So I unto myself alone will sing; The woods shall to me answer, and my echo ring. Early, before the world's light-giving lamp His golden beam upon the hills doth spread...

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