Western Reserve Studies, Volume 1, Issue 2

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Page 38 - Let me have men about me that are fat ; Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights. Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; He thinks too much : such men are dangerous.
Page 170 - There's such divinity doth hedge a king, That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will.
Page 78 - The errant wildness of a woman's face ; Where men cannot get out, for all the comets That have been lighted at it ; though they know That adders lie a-sunning in their smiles, That basilisks drink their poison from their eyes, And no way there to coast out to their hearts ; Yet still they wander there, and are not...
Page 52 - To look upon him, till the diminution Of space had pointed him sharp as my needle; Nay , follow'd him , till he had melted from The smallness of a gnat to air; and then Have tnrn'd mine eye , and wept.
Page 91 - The Richmond Heiress: or, A Woman Once in the Right. A Comedy, Acted At the Theatre Royal, By Their Majesties Servants.
Page 140 - Lass,' which part she acted, she transformed her whole being — body, shape, voice, language, look and features — into almost another animal, with a strong Devonshire dialect, a broad laughing voice, a poking head, round shoulders, an unconceiving eye, and the most bedizening, dowdy dress that ever covered the untrained limbs of a Joan Trot.
Page 14 - A Comedy. As it is Acted at his Royal Highness the Duke's Theatre.
Page 69 - It implied that human nature, when not, as in some cases, already perfect, was perfectible by an appeal to the emotions. It refused to assume that virtuous persons must be sought in a romantic realm apart from the everyday world. It wished to show that beings who were good at heart were found in the ordinary walks of life. It so represented their conduct as to arouse admiration for their virtues and pity for their sufferings.
Page 37 - WOMAN'S, a Comedy, as it is Acted by Their Majesties Servants at the Theatre- Royal, written by THOMAS DURFEY, Gent.
Page 164 - The Two Queens of Brentford: or, Bayes no Poetaster: a Musical Farce, or Comical Opera. Being the sequel of the Famous Rehearsal. Written by the Late Duke of Buckingham.

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