Such Things are: A Play in Five Acts. As Performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent GardenG.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1788 - 74 pages |
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ADELAIDE Afide Aman Amanthis AUSTIN becauſe bleffing caufe cauſe Char CLASSICK Colonel Colonel Talbot cou'd Count COUNTESS Crev Crevelt dear DORIMANT Duke Elvirus EMILY Enter Exeunt Exit FABIAN faid father fecret fhall fhould firſt fome fomething foon forrow forry foul fpeak fpirit ftill fuch fuffer fuppofe fure Hafwell happineſs Harriet hear heart Heaven himſelf honour hope houſe huſband JAQUELINE Johnf Johnfon juft Lady Tremor laft lefs look Lord Flint Lordship LUCY Madam Mandeville March Marchionefs Marq Marquis marriage marry Mifs moft moſt muft muſt myſelf never paffion pardon Peafant perfon pleaſe pleaſure prefent Prif prifoner promife reafon ſay SCENE ſee ſhall ſhe SIR JOHN Sir Luke Sir Oliver ſpeak Sultan tell thee THEODORE theſe thofe thoſe thou TRADEWELL Twineall underſtand whofe wife Wilk Wilkins wiſh worfe wou'd yourſelf
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Page 40 - The prisoner is your subject. There, misery, more contagious than disease, preys on the lives of hundreds : sentenced but to confinement, their doom is death. Immured in damp and dreary vaults, they daily perish ; and who can tell but that...
Page 3 - I tell you, sir, you are mistaken. SIR LUKE: Why, did not you come over from England exactly sixteen years ago? LADY: Not so long. SIR LUKE: Have not we been married, the tenth of next April, sixteen years? LADY: Not so long. SIR LUKE: Did you not come over the year of the great eclipse? — answer me that. LADY: I don't remember it. SIR LUKE: But I do — and shall remember it as long as I live. — The first time I saw you was in the garden of the Dutch envoy: you were looking through...
Page 18 - And ftrain them to his hollow burning eyes ; Then falter out, " I am, I am a villain ; " Mild angel, pray for me; ftir not, my child! " It comes again; oh! do not leave my fide.
Page 62 - All the fair growth of noble thoughts and virtue, Thy mother planted in thy early youth; All that good man, companion of thy bonds, Thy better father, father of thy mind...
Page 4 - ... Lady. Letters of recommendation ! Sir Luke. Yes ; your character that, you know, is all the fortune we poor Englishmen, situated in India, expect with a wife, who crosses the sea at the hazard of her life, to make us happy. Lady. And what but our characters would you have us bring ? — Do you suppose any lady ever came to India, who brought along with her friends or fortune?
Page 42 - ... softness, than any other. — It is called — love ; — and why its name and nature I have thus long concealed from you, was from the apprehension, that in the solitude where you lived, the sensibility of your heart might cause dangerous illusions. I...
Page 19 - Oh, decline this challenge ! Count. That, hereafter. Mean time, prepare my daughter to receive A husband of my choice. Should Godfrey come, (Strife might be so prevented) bid her try Her beauty's power. Stand thou but neuter, Fate ! Courage, and art, shall arm me from mankind.
Page 40 - I can hear no more ; the sentiments you entertain for the Marquis are criminal, unless he were your husband. Aman. And cannot he be so ? What prevents it ? Duke. His noble birth, and your mean one. .Aman. My poor father was a gentleman, and the Marquis loved him. Duke. He now, if living, is an exile, and would disgrace our family. Aman. I thought not : he was unfortunate ; but the Marquis ever taught me to respect and reverence misfortune. Duke. Do not flatter yourself with any hope : you were not...
Page 41 - They tell me, that in our camps you visited each sick man's bed, administered yourself the healing draught, encouraged our savages with the hope of life, or pointed out their better hope in death. — The widow speaks your charities, the orphan lisps your bounties, and the rough Indian melts in tears to bless you. — I wish to ask why you have done all this?