Sardanapalus,: A Tragedy. ; The Two Foscari, a Tragedy. ; Cain, a Mystery

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John Murray, Albemarle-Street [printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars], 1821 - 439 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 350 - &. have us so, That he may torture : let him ! He is great — But, in his greatness, is no happier than We in our conflict...
Pàgina 353 - Lucifer. One is yours already ; The other may be still. Cain. How so ? Lucifer. By being Yourselves, in your resistance. Nothing can Quench the mind, if the mind will be itself And centre of surrounding things — 'tis made To sway.
Pàgina 410 - By tyrannous threats to force you into faith 'Gainst all external sense and inward feeling: Think and endure — and form an inner world In your own bosom — where the outward fails; So shall you nearer be the spiritual Nature, and war triumphant with your own.
Pàgina 345 - What had / done in this ? — I was unborn, I sought not to be born ; nor love the state To which that birth has brought me. Why did he Yield to the serpent and the woman ? or, Yielding, why suffer ? What was there in this ? The tree was planted, and why not for him ? If not, why place him near it, where it grew, The fairest in the centre ? Thev have but One answer to all questions, " 'twas his will, And he is good.
Pàgina 122 - Zarina ! I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse — borne away with every breath ! Misplaced upon the throne — misplaced in life. I know not what I could have been, but feel I am not what I should be — let it end.
Pàgina 33 - The very first Of human life must spring from woman's breast, Your first small words are taught you from her lips, Your first tears quench'd by her, and your last sighs Too often breathed out in a woman's hearing, When men have shrunk from the ignoble care Of watching the last hour of him who led them.

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