The Fatal Dowry: A Tragedy, in Five Acts

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E. M. Murden; J. Finch, printer, 1826 - 66 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 23 - While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever ; Spend not then his gifts in vain ; Suns that set may rise again ; But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night.
Pàgina 26 - Thy valour and thy honesty together, For so it did in him. Ensign, this cuirass, Your general's necklace once. You gentle bearers, Divide this purse of gold : this other strew Among the poor. 'Tis all I have. Romont, Wear thou this medal of himself, that like A hearty oak grew'st close to this tall pine...
Pàgina 26 - ... and hack'd ye were, but never fell'd. For me, my portion provide in heaven: My root is earth'd, and I, a desolate branch, Left scatter'd in the highway of the world, Trod under foot, that might have been a column Mainly supporting our demolish'd house. This* would I wear as my inheritance,— And what hope can arise to me from it, When I and it are here both prisoners ? Only may this, if ever we be free, Keep or redeem me from all infamy.
Pàgina 26 - Tis all I have. Romont, Wear thou this medal of himself, that like A hearty oak grewst close to this tall pine, E'en in the wildest wilderness of war, Whereon foes broke their swords, and tir'd themselves.
Pàgina 14 - What though my father Writ man before he was so, and confirmed it By numbering that day no part of his life, In which he did not service to his country; Was he to be free therefore from the laws And ceremonious form in your decrees? Or else, because he did as much as man In those three memorable overthrows At Granson, Morat, Nancy, where his master The warlike Charalois...
Pàgina 5 - Yes, to the shame of this ungrateful state; That such a master in the art of war, So noble and so highly meriting From this forgetful country, should, for want Of means to satisfy his creditors The sum he took up for the general good, Meet with an end so infamous.
Pàgina 14 - And ceremonious form in your decrees? Or else because he did as much as man In those three memorable overthrows, At Granson, Morat, Nancy, where his master, The warlike Charalois, with whose misfortunes I bear his name, lost treasure, men, and life, To be excused from payment of those sums Which (his own patrimony spent) his zeal To serve his country forced him to take up?
Pàgina 26 - And I have done. Captain, wear thou these spurs, That yet ne'er made his horse run from a foe. Lieutenant, thou this scarf ; and may it tie Thy valour and thy honesty together, For so it did in him. Ensign, this cuirass, Your general's necklace once. You gentle bearers, Divide this purse of gold : this other strew Among the poor. 'Tis all I have. Romont, Wear thou this medal of himself, that like A hearty oak grew'st close to this...

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