The Merry Devil of Edmonton: A Comedy

Εξώφυλλο
Hugh Walker
Dent, 1897 - 78 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 15 - How many a sad and weary summer's night My sighs have drunk the dew from off the earth, And I have taught the nightingale to wake, And from the meadows sprung the early lark An hour before she should have list to sing ? I have loaded the poor minutes with my moans, That I have made the heavy slow pac'd hours To hang like heavy clogs upon the day.
Σελίδα 12 - Clare, Refuse to give his daughter to thy son, Only because thy revenues cannot reach To make her dowage of so rich a jointure, As can the heir of wealthy Jerningham ? And therefore is the false fox now in hand To strike a match betwixt her and the other, And the old grey-beards now are close together, Plotting in the garden.
Σελίδα xii - And by him stands that necromantic chair, In which he makes his direful invocations, And binds the fiends that shall obey his will.
Σελίδα 16 - I'd wrong the chase, and leave the love . Of one so worthy, and so true a friend, I will abjure both beauty and her sight, And will in love become a counterfeit.
Σελίδα 2 - Reserve me, spirit, until some farther time. Cor. I will not for the mines of all the earth. Fab. Then let me rise, and ere I leave the world, Dispatch some business that I have to do ; And in mean time repose thee in that chair.
Σελίδα 1 - With hollow howling tell of thy approach ; The lights burn dim, affrighted with thy presence ; And this distemper'd and tempestuous night Tells me the air is troubled with some devil.
Σελίδα 70 - Scrooge, having his key in the lock of the door, saw in the knocker, without its undergoing any intermediate process of change — not a knocker, but Marley's face. Marley's face. It was not in impenetrable shadow, as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar.
Σελίδα 16 - But since the matter grows into this pass, I must not seem to cross my father's will ; But when thou list to visit her by night, My horse is saddled, and the stable door Stands ready for thee ; use them at thy pleasure. In honest marriage wed her frankly, boy, And if thou getst her, lad, God give thee joy.
Σελίδα 19 - We'll wet our lips together, and hug ; Carouse in private, and elevate the heart, and the liver, and the lights, and the lights ; mark you me, within us for — hem — grass and hay, — we are all mortal, — let's live till we die, and be merry, and there's an end.
Σελίδα 11 - s in to breakfast ? After we'll conclude The cause of this our coming : in and feed, And let that usher a more serious deed. Mil. Whilst you desire his grief, my heart shall bleed.

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