The Dramatic Works of James Sheridan Knowles: Caius Gracchus ; Virginius ; William Tell ; Alfred the Great, or, The patriot king ; The hunchbackEdward Moxon, Dover Street, 1841 |
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Altorf Appius art thou blood Caius Gracchus child Citizens Claud Claudius Clif Clifford cousin Dane daughter decemvirs Dentatus dost doth Drusus e'en Edith Edwy Emma Enter eyes Fath father fear friends Gesler give goes Guth Guthrum hand hath hear heart Helen honour Icil Icilius Is't Julia king lady leech Lici Licinia Lictors Livia look lord Lucius MARCUS Master Walter mother ne'er never NUMITORIUS o'er Odin on't Opimius Oswith patricians pray Rochdale Rome Sarnem Saxon SCENE senate Seneschal Servia shalt Sir Thomas Sir Thomas Clifford slave smile Soldiers speak Spurius Oppius sure sweet sword tears Tell thee There's thine thing Thou art thou'rt Tiberius tongue tribune Twas twill Verner Vettius Virginius What's wife wilt wouldst
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Page 170 - I'm with you once again ! — I call to you With all my voice !— I hold my hands to you To show they still are free. I rush to you As though I could embrace you...
Page 169 - Ye crags and peaks, I'm with you once again! I hold to you the hands you first beheld, To show they still are free. Methinks I hear A spirit in your echoes answer me, And bid your tenant welcome to his home Again! O sacred forms, how proud you look! How high you lift your heads into the sky! How huge you are! how mighty and how free!
Page 170 - Ye are the things that tower, that shine ; whose smile Makes glad — whose frown is terrible; whose forms, Robed or unrobed, do all the impress wear Of awe divine. Ye guards of liberty, I'm with you once again !— I call to you With all my voice ! — I hold my hands to you, To show they still are free.
Page 226 - I cannot see to shoot against the sun — I will not shoot against the sun ! Ges. Give him his way ! Thou hast cause to bless my mercy. Tell. I shall remember it.
Page 216 - Tell. Ay: They watch no more the avalanche. Ges. Why so? Tell. Because they look for thee. The hurricane Comes unawares upon them ; from its bed The torrent breaks, and finds them in its track. Ges. What do they then ? Tell. Thank Heaven it is not thou ! Thou hast perverted nature in them.
Page 170 - O'er the abyss. His broad expanded wings Lay calm and motionless upon the air, As if he floated there without their aid, By the sole act of his unlorded will, That buoyed him proudly up. Instinctively I bent my bow; yet kept he rounding still His airy circle, as in the delight Of measuring the ample range beneath And round about; absorbed, he heeded not The death that threatened him. I could not shoot— 'Twas Liberty! I turned my bow aside, And let him soar away!
Page 186 - I've laid me flat along, And while gust follow'd gust more furiously, As if to sweep me o'er the horrid brink, And I have thought of other lands, whose storms Are summer flaws to those of mine, and just Have...
Page 217 - There's not a blessing Heaven vouchsafes them, but The thought of thee doth wither to a curse, As something they must lose, and richer were To lack. Ges. That's right ! I'd have them like their hills, That never smile, though wanton summer tempt Them e'er so much.
Page 223 - Villains ! put on my chains again. My hands Are free from blood, and have no gust for it, That they should drink my child's ! Here ! here ! I'll not Murder my boy for Gesler.
Page 100 - Returns it not thy gripe ? Thou wilt not hold Faster by it than it will hold by thee ! I overheard thee say, thou wast resolved To win my friendship quite — Thou canst not win What thou hast won already! You will stay And sup with us to-night ? Dent.