The London Merchant: Or, The History of George Barnwell, and Fatal Curiosity

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D. C. Heath & Company, 1906 - 247페이지
 

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xlv 페이지 - tis not done: the attempt and not the deed Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready; He could not miss 'em. Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done't.
5 페이지 - That he should weep for her? What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? He would drown the stage with tears And cleave the general ear with horrid speech; Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze, indeed, The very faculties of eyes and ears.
156 페이지 - The frequent instances of others woe Must give a generous mind a world of pain. But you forget you promised me to sing. Though cheerfulness and I have long been strangers, Harmonious sounds are still delightful to me. There's sure no passion in the human soul, But finds its food in music.
12 페이지 - I gratify it with the greater pleasure, because from thence you may learn how honest merchants, as such, may sometimes contribute to the safety of their country, as they do at all times to its happiness ; that if hereafter you should be tempted to any action that has the appearance of vice or meanness in it, upon reflecting on the dignity of our profession, you may with honest scorn reject whatever is unworthy of it.
125 페이지 - Which she to stay her trickling tears Before her eyes did hold. This thing unto my sight Was wondrous rare and strange ; And in my soul and inward thought...
203 페이지 - Is all the happiest of mankind can hope for. To be a wretch is to survive the loss Of every joy, and even hope itself, As I have done — Why do I mourn him then ? For, by the anguish of my tortur'd soul, He's to be envy'd, if compar'd with me ! [Exit SCENE II.
214 페이지 - They tore off one of his ears, bidding him carry it to his king, and tell him they would serve him in the same manner should an opportunity offer: they tortured him xvith the most shocking cruelty, and threatened him with immediate death.
127 페이지 - Having a mighty sum Of money in my hand, Unto her house went I, Whereas my love upon her bed In saddest sort did l}re.
117 페이지 - ... by composing, instead of inflaming the quarrels of porters and beggars (which I blush when I say hath not been universally practised), and by refusing to take a shilling from a man who most undoubtedly would not have had another left, I had reduced an income of about £-500 a year, of the dirtiest money upon earth, to little more than £300, a considerable portion of which remained with my clerk...
69 페이지 - O do not look so tenderly upon me. Let indignation lighten from your eyes, and blast me ere you, die. — By heaven, he weeps in pity of my woes. Tears, — tears, for blood.

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