Coriolanus: A Tragedy

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J. Exshaw, 1767
 

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Seite 38 - Philosophy consists not In airy schemes, or idle speculations: The rule and conduct of all social life Is her great province. Not in lonely cells Obscure she lurks, but holds her heavenly light To senates and to kings to guide their councils, And teach them to reform and bless mankind.
Seite 55 - My utmost promise. Thou hast been protected ; Hast had thy. amplest, most ambitious, wish ; Thy wounded pride is heal'd, thy dear revenge Completely sated ; and, to crown thy fortune, At the same time, thy peace with Rome restored.
Seite 55 - Auf. 1 mean not to assail thee with the clamour Of loud reproaches, and the war of words ; But, pride apart, and all that can pervert The light of steady reason, here to make A candid, fair proposal.
Seite 57 - By her victorious sword, to speak of Rome, But with respect, and awful veneration. — Whate'er her blots, whate'er her giddy factions There is more virtue in one single year Of Roman story, than your Volscian annals Can boast through all their creeping, dark duration. Auf. I thank thy rage : — This full displays the traitor. [Cor. Traitor ! How now ? Auf.
Seite 57 - And proved before them all, to thy confusion, The falsehood of thy charge ; as soon in battle I would before thee fly, and howl for mercy, As quit the station they've assigned me here.
Seite 56 - Thou speakest the truth : it had not. O, for that time again ! Propitious gods, If you will bless me, grant it ! Know, for that, For that dear purpose, I have now proposed Thou should'st return : I pray thee, Marcius, do it ; And we shall meet again on nobler terms.
Seite 3 - Oh, may to-night your favourable doom Another laurel add to grace his tomb : Whilst he, superior now to praise or blame, Hears not the feeble voice of human fame. Yet if to those, whom most on earth he loved, From whom his pious care is now...
Seite 53 - Well, I obey — How bitter thus to part! Upon fuch terms to part! perhaps for ever ! But tell me, ere I hence unroot my feet, When to my lonely home I...
Seite 25 - Methought, my lord, his parting orders were, We should attend the triumph now preparing O'er all his foes at once, — Romans and Volscians.
Seite 27 - Just in the happy moment that decided The long dispute of ages, that for which Our generous ancestors had toil'd and bled, To see him then step in and steal our glory!

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