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When autumn nights were long and drear, And forest walks were dark and dim, How sweetly on the pilgrim's ear Was wont to steal the hermit's hymn Devotion borrows Music…
Alas, how many hours and years have past, Since human forms have round this table sate, Or lamp, or taper, on its surface gleam'd! Methinks, I he ar the sound of time long pass�…
My daughter—O my ducats—O my daughter! ———O my Christian ducats! Justice—the Law—my ducats, and my daughter! —Merchant of Venice Leaving the Saxon chiefs to return to their banquet as soon …
Nay, if the gentle spirit of moving words Can no way change you to a milder form, I'll woo you, like a soldier, at arms' end, And love you 'gainst the nature of love, force…
I'll woo her as the lion woos his bride. —Douglas While the scenes we have described were passing in other parts of the castle, the Jewess Rebecca awaited her fate in a distant and sequestered t…
A damn'd cramp piece of penmanship as ever I saw in my life! —She Stoops to Conquer When the Templar reached the hall of the castle, he found De Bracy already there. “Your love-suit,” said De …
The hottest horse will oft be cool, The dullest will show fire; The friar will often play the fool, The fool will play the friar. —Old Song When the Jester, arrayed in the cowl an…
Fond wretch! and what canst thou relate, B ut deeds of sorrow, shame, and sin? Thy deeds are proved—thou know'st thy fate; But come, thy tale—begin—begin. But I have griefs o…
This wandering race, sever'd from other men, Boast yet their intercourse with human arts; The seas, the woods, the deserts, which they haunt, Find them acquainted with their secre…
Ascend the watch-tower yonder, valiant soldier, Look on the field, and say how goes the battle. —Schiller's Maid of Orleans A moment of peril is often also a moment of open-hearted kindness…
