Witchcraft: a tragedy in prose. The homicide: a tragedy in prose, with occasional passages of verse. The bride: a drama. The match: a comedy. Appendix [notes, etcLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1836 |
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ANDERSON ANNABELLA ARDUSOFFE art thou ARTINA BAILLIE Baron Hartman BAWLDY BORION brave bride canst child CLAUDIEN CONFESSOR CORMAN CRANY creature dear door dost thou EHLEYPOOLIE ELSPY LOW EMMA Enter ev'n Exeunt Exit FATHER FRANCIS FATHERINGHAM favour fear FLOUNCE frae FRANKLIN gentle give gown GRIZELD BANE hand hath head hear heard heart heaven honour HOUSEKEEPER innocent KRANZBERG Kunliffe LADY DUNGARREN LANDLADY LATITIA LAWRY leave leddy look Lord Lubeck Madam MARGARET MARY MACMURREN matter MAURICE mercy MIHDOONY misery MONTEBESA murderer never noble NURSE OFFICER pause PHEMY phrenologist poor pray prisoner RASINGA Robert Kennedy ROSELLA RUTHERFORD SABAWATTÉ SAMAR SAMARKOON SCENE SENIOR JUDGE Servants SHERIFF SIR CAMERON speak sure tell thank thee thine thing thou art thou hast thou shalt thou wilt thought thyself VAN MAURICE Violet Murrey voice WILKIN witch witchcraft woman words
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الصفحة 286 - THE gliding fish that takes his play In shady nook of streamlet cool, Thinks not how waters pass away, And summer dries the pool. The bird beneath his leafy dome, Who trills his carol, loud and clear, Thinks not how soon his verdant home The lightning's breath may sear. Shall I, within my bridegroom's bower, With braids of budding roses twined, Look forward to a coming hour When he may prove unkind ? The bee reigns in his waxen cell, The chieftain in his stately hold, To-morrow's earthquake, —...
الصفحة 365 - It return again, and bring with thee The sacred Book which thou hast told me of? JUAN. I will return again and bring that book, If Heaven permit. But man's uncertain life Is like a rain-drop hanging on the bough, Amongst ten thousand of its sparkling kindred, The remnants of some passing thunder shower, Who have their moments, dropping one by one, And which shall soonest lose its per'lous hold We cannot guess.
الصفحة 196 - Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in his own image.
الصفحة 256 - ... intelligent counsel. After a deliberate and patient investigation of your several cases, by Petit Juries, they have been constrained and compelled by their consciences and their oaths, to pronounce each and all of you guilty of a most foul and aggravated murder. Have you, or either of you, anything to say why the sentence of the law should not be pronounced against you...
الصفحة 375 - ... in his way. (Aloud.) Poh ! it will all end, as it did before, in scruples, and fancies, and misapprehensions ! Don't you think it will ? BRIGHTLY. I hope not : what a match they would make if it could be effected ! THORNHILL. How ! Suspicion and indecision put together as yoke-fellows ! BRIGHTLY. Why not? If they are together, two people may lead an uneasy life, to be sure ; but it will, in all probability, save four from being in the like condition.
الصفحة 253 - Woe is me that human nature should come to this ! The pride and spirits of that creature, now, rise on an occasion like this. The condemnation or execution of a fellow-creature creates no other feeling in him but the enjoyment of increased importance and comparative security ! Yet there was some good in him once. (Pauses thoughtfully.) There was good in him once : his first confession consisted of one petty crime, for which he seemed to be most penitent. But the steps of the confessional is a spot...
الصفحة 162 - SHERIFF. Good people, be pacified ; and instead of the burning of a witch, ye shall have six hogsheads of ale set abroach at the cross, to drink the health of Violet Murrey, and a grand funeral into the bargain.
الصفحة 190 - I at the moment arm'd, he weaponless ; I was the victor, he upon the ground. I might have saved his life, and meant to save it ; But keen suggestions rush'd, I know not how, Like blasts from hell, all nature's virtue searing ; Like poison'd arrows from an...