The Rage: A Comedy. As it is Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden

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T.N. Longman, 1795 - 87 pages

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Page 45 - Oh, the brave din, the noble clang, of arms ! Charge, charge apace, and let the phalanx move. Darius comes — ay, 'tis Darius, I...
Page 46 - I was in love — but myself, for the blood of me, Could not tell what I did ail ; 'Twas dear, dear, what can the matter be, ( Och!
Page 7 - In duty fix'd, Here I remain'd, while my brave gen'rous Phocion Fled with my child, and from his mother's arms Bore my sweet little one. Full well thou know'st The pangs I suffer'd in that trying moment. Did I not weep ? Did I not rave and shriek, And by the roots tear my dishevell'd hair...
Page 14 - Perched on my beaver in the Granick flood ; When Fortune's self my standard trembling bore. And the pale Fates stood frighted on the shore, When the immortals on the billows rode, And I myself appeared the leading god.
Page 53 - Say, is he safe ? oh ! satisfy a mother ; Speak of my child, or I grow wild at once : Tell me his fate, and tell me all thy own. Pho. Your boy is safe...
Page 43 - I told you, we were all blown upon— now, here's an opportunity for retrieving our reputation— lend him the two hundred pounds — prove, for once, we can behave like gentlemen, and hark'ye — we fhan't reach the top of the profeffion.
Page 19 - Would I had not ; There is no true joy in such unwieldy fortune. Eternal gazers lasting troubles make ; All find my spots, but few observe my brightness. Stand from about me all, and give me air. Yes, I will shake this Cupid from my...
Page 20 - Tie when the hollow drum has beat to bed, When the little fifer hangs his head, Still and mute The Moorish flute, And nodding guards watch wearily. Oh, then must we, From prison free, March out by moonlight cheerily.

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