Plays: By Greek, Spanish, French, German and English Dramatists, Volume 31Colonial Press, 1900 |
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ACASTE Agoracritus ALCESTE ANTISTROPHE ARICIA ARSINOË Astolfo bear behold blood bring CÉLIMÈNE CENONE CHORUS CLEON CLITANDRE Clotaldo cousin CREON curse dare dear death deed DEMOSTHENES DEMUS didst doom dost dread dream earth Ecod Edipus EGEUS Eliante Enone Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fate father fear fellow FIFE gentlemen give gods grief hand happy hate hath hear heart Heaven HEPHÆSTUS Hippolytus honor hope Ismene JASON JOCASTA keep king Laios land leave live look Lord madam MARLOW MEDEA MISS HARDCASTLE MISS NEVILLE mortals mother Muscovy ne'er never NICIAS o'er oracles ORONTE Paphlagonian passion Phædra PHILINTE Poland pray Prince PROMETHEUS Pylos rocks ROSAURA SAUSAGE-SELLER Scene SEGISMUND servants shame SIR CHARLES sire sons sorrow soul speak sure tears tell thee Theramenes there's Theseus thine things thou hast TONY wilt wish words wrath wretched Zeus
Popular passages
Page 144 - Pelt him, pummel him, nnd maul him; rummage, ransack, overhaul him ; Overbear him and outbawl him; bear him down, and bring him under Bellow like a burst of thunder, Robber ! harpy ! sink of plunder ! Rogue and villain! rogue and cheat! rogue and villain, 1 repeat!
Page 385 - You must not be so talkative, Diggory. You must be all attention to the guests. You must hear us talk, and not think of talking; you must see us drink, and not think of drinking ; you must see us eat, and not think of eating. Diggory.
Page 374 - Blessings on my pretty innocence ! Drest out as usual, my Kate. Goodness! What a quantity of superfluous silk hast thou got about thee, girl ! I could never teach the fools of this age, that the indigent world could be clothed out of the trimmings of the vain.
Page 433 - Marlow. (Kneeling.) Does this look like security? Does this look like confidence? No, madam, every moment that shows me your merit, only serves to increase my diffidence and confusion.
Page 381 - There be two gentlemen in a post-chaise at the door. They have lost their way upo' the forest ; and they are talking something about Mr.
Page 409 - He has scarcely been three hours in the house, and he has already encroached on all my prerogatives. You may like his impudence, and call it modesty. But my son-in-law, Madam, must have very different qualifications. Miss Hard. Sir, I ask but this night to convince you.
Page 414 - HARD. Young man, young man, from your father's letter to me. I was taught to expect a well-bred modest man as a visitor...
Page 413 - Though I'm but a servant, I'm as good as another man. I'll drink for no man before supper, sir, damme ! Good liquor will sit upon a good supper, but a good supper will not sit upon — hiccup — on my conscience, sir. Marlow — You see, my old friend, the fellow is as drunk as he can possibly be.
Page 374 - You know our agreement, Sir. You allow me the morning to receive and pay visits, and to dress in my own manner; and in the evening I put on my housewife's dress to please you.
Page 16 - With wicketed sides, nor any woodcraft knew. But lived, like silly ants, beneath the ground In hollow caves unsunned. There, came to them No steadfast sign of winter, nor of spring Flower-perfumed, nor of summer full of fruit, But blindly and lawlessly they did all things...