The book of drawing-room plays and evening amusementsCassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1868 - 300 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
adversary adversary's Aloud amusement ANSWER Arabella backgammon ball Beddington bishop BLUEBEARD BOLD CAPT Captain castle charades checkmate CLARA cloth colour costumes count Cupid comes Curtain falls dance dear door Dramatis Persona dress ELIZA ELOISE ENDIVE English draughts Enter Exit FAIRY false move Fighthard five forfeit gentleman GEORGE SELWYN gilt girl give hair hand holes inner table J'adoube JULIA KATE king king's lady LADY'S MAID leave letter look LORD BATEMAN ma'am MACG MacGuffy married MARY Mashallah MISS move Munich never O'Garry Omphale party person piece or pawn placed played player poor pray Pre-Adamite PRINCE PRINCESS Protagoras PUZZLE queen rook round SCENE SCHAC SCHACABAC servant Shyaway side sister SMITH SQUAILS square stage tableau tableaux vivants tell thee there's thou Titania whilst word young
Pasajes populares
Página 214 - When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough.
Página 51 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Página 215 - Our life is two-fold : Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence : Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy...
Página 46 - And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this— That in the course of justice none of us Should see salvation; we do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Página 46 - I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er, On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart: If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Página 46 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes; 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Página 51 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it Love-in-idleness.
Página 48 - I pray you give me leave to go from hence ; I am not well.
Página 51 - That very time I saw (but thou could'st not), Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd...
Página 46 - When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this, — That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy ; VOL.