Pride Shall Have a Fall: A Comedy; in Five Acts--with Songs ...Hurst, Robinson, 1824 - 98 páginas |
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1st Seren Angrily balcony beauty billing and cooing bride Captain casement CHORUS Colonel comes Cornet Coun Count and Countess Count Ventoso daughter dear door doubloons Ducats Exeunt Exit eyes farewell fellow fling fools gentlemen give glory grand half hand handsome Haughtily hear heard heart Heaven Here's a roar hippopotamus honour hour hurry Hussars impostor impudence insulted Jail JAILOR knave ladder lady laugh LAZARO Leon LEONORA letter look LORENZO enters lute Major O'Shannon marry Master moon Muffs and meerschaums never night noble Officers Palermo piastres PISANIO pride Prince de Pindemonté prison purse quadrille rogue sabre sequins SERENADERS sing Servant Sicilian Sicily sighs Signior sleep SPADO spirit stars Stefano sweet tell There's thing to-night tongue TORRENTO Trooper turn Twas Twentieth undone VENTOSO's House Viceroy Victoria woman
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Página 40 - To tliee, to thee the pang is known ; Yet, traitor, be thy crime forgiven, Mine be the shame, the grief alone ! The maddening hour when first we met, The glance, the smile, the vow you gave ; The last wild moment haunt me yet ; I feel they'll haunt me to my grave !— Down, wayward heart, no longer heave ; Thou idle tear, no longer flow ; And may that Heav'n he dar'd deceive, Forgive, as I forgive him now.
Página 67 - d with monstrous tales Of Turks and Tartars ; deep conspiracies, (Born in the writer's brain) ; of spots in the sun, Pregnant with fearful wars. And so they shake, And hope they'll find the world all safe by morn. And thus she makes the world, both young...
Página 12 - George Croly. MY lack of noble blood ! Then that 's the bar Disqualifies my suit ! — makes perjury Of slight account against me ! I'm untitled ! Parchments and money-bags have precedence In Cupid's Court, as elsewhere ! Sir, your daughter — But I'll not stoop my free, recovered heart, To play the mendicant ! Farewell to love : Henceforth, let venerable oaths of men, And women's vows, though all the stars of Heaven Were listening, be forgotten, — light as dust ! True, true, — I should have...
Página 56 - ... festoon, my love, Lets in, like snow-flakes, the light of the moon. my love ; And to the castanet Twinkle the merry feet, And beauty's dark eyes are burning, my love : But sweeter the hour, when the star hides its gleam, And the moon in the waters has bath'd her...
Página 56 - tis to wander beside the hush'd wave. When the breezes in twilight their pale pinions lave, And Echo repeats, from the depth of her cave, The song of the shepherds returning ! And sweet 'tis to sit, where the vintage festoon, my love, Lets in, like snow-flakes, the light of the moon. my love ; And to the castanet Twinkle the merry feet, And beauty's dark eyes are burning, my love : But sweeter the...
Página 67 - A seeming journal, stuff'd with monstrous tales Of Turks and Tartars; deep conspiracies, (Born in the writer's brain;) of spots in the sun, Pregnant with fearful wars. And so they shake, And hope they'll find the world all safe by morn. And thus she makes the world, both young and old, Bow down to sovereign CURIOSITY!.
Página 66 - Of Doctors' Commons, matches broken off, Blue-stocking frailties, cards, and ratafia; And thus she gives them prattle for the day. She sits by ancient politicians, bowed As if a hundred years were on her back ; Then peering through her spectacles, she reads A seeming journal...
Página 49 - Like a pale spirit, casting off the shroud As it ascends to Heaven! (He rises, and goes to the casement.} Woman's all false. Victoria! at this hour what solemn vows, What deathless contracts, lovely hopes, rich dreams, Were uttered in the presence of the moon ! Why, there was not a hill-top round the Bay, But in our thoughts was made a monument, Inscribed with gentle memories of Love! Upon yon mount our cottage should be built, Unmatched since Paradise ;—upon the next, A beacon should be raised,...
Página 32 - I scorn to appeal to your passions ; but shall we suffer our honourable straw, our venerable bread and water, our virtuous slumbers, and our useful days, to be invaded, crushed, and calcitrated, by the iron boot-heel of arrogance and audacity ?, (Cheering.) — No!
Página 40 - Too lovely, oh, too lov'd, farewell ! Though parting rends my bosom strings, This hour we part ! — The grave shall tell The thought that to my spirit clings. Thou pain, above all other pain ! Thou joy, all other joys above ! Again, again I feel thy chain, And die thy weeping martyr — LOVE. (She walks in agitation.) Vic. Oh ! what decaying, feeble, fickle things Are lovers...