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All fear, but fear of heaven, betrays a guilt, And guilt is villainy. - [Guilt] Am I to blame, if nature threw my body In so perverse a mould! yet when she cast Her envious hand upon my supple joints, Unable to resist, and rumpled them 0n heaps in their dark lodging; to revenge Her bungled work, she stamped my mind more fair, And as from chaos, huddled and deform'd, The gods struck fire, and lighted up the lamps That beautify the sky; so she inform'd This ill-shap'd body with a daring soul, And, making less than man, she made me more. - [Deformity] As well the noble savage of the field Might tamely couple with the fearful ewe; Tigers might engender with the timid deer; Wild, muddy boars defile the cleanly ermine, Or vultures sort with doves; as I with thee. - [Aversion] By heavens, my love, thou dost distract my soul! There's not a tear that falls from those dear eyes, But makes my heart weep blood. - [Tears] Groans and convulsions, and discolour'd faces, Friends weeping round us, blacks, and obsequies, Make death a dreadful thing; the pomp of death Is far mare terrible than death itself. - [Funerals] I could perceive with joy, a silent show'r Run down his silver beard. - [Tears] I found her on the floor In all the storm of grief; yet beautiful! Sighing such a breath of sorrow, that her lips, Which late appear'd like buds, were now o'er-blown! Pouring forth tears, at such a lavish rate, That were the world on fire, they might have drown'd The wrath of heaven, and quench'd the mighty ruin. - [Tears] I weep, 'tis true; but Machiavel, I swear They're tears of vengeance; drops of liquid fire! So marble weeps, when flames surround the quarry, And the pil'd oaks spout forth such scalding bubbles, Before the general blaze. - [Tears] If we must pray, Rear in the streets bright altars to the gods, Let virgin's hands adorn the sacrifice; And not a grey-beard forging priest come here, To pry into the bowels of their victim, And with their dotage mad the gaping world. - [Clergymen] In taking leave, Thro' the dark lashes of her darting eyes, Methought she shot her soul at ev'ry glance, Still looking back, as if she had a mind That you should know she left her soul behind her. - [Parting] Marriage to maids is like a war to men; The battle causes fear, but the sweet hopes Of winning at the last, still draws 'em in. - [Matrimony] Nature herself started back when thou wert born, And cried, "the work's not mine." The midwife stood aghast; and when she saw Thy mountain back and thy distorted legs, Thy face itself, Half-minted with the royal stamp of man, And half o'ercome with beast, she doubted long Whose right in thee were more; And know not if to burn thee in the flames Were not the holier work. - [Deformity] Oh! I will curse thee till thy frighted soul Runs mad with horror. - [Curses] Then he will talk--good gods, how he will talk! - Alexander the Great (act I, sc. 1) [Talk] 'Tis beauty calls, and glory shows the way. - Alexander the Great; or The Rival Queens (act IV, sc. 2) [Beauty] When the sun sets, shadows, that showed at noon But small, appear most long and terrible. - Oedipus, said to be written by Lee and Dryden [Sun] Vows with so much passion, sears with so much grace, That 'tis a kind of Heaven to be deluded by him. - Rival Queens (act I, sc. 1) [Vows] While foulest fiends shun thy society. - Rival Queens (V, I, 86) [Suicide] When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war, The labored battle sweat, and conquest bled . . . . . Philip fought men, but Alexander women. - The Rival Queens; or, Alexander the Great (act IV, sc. 2) [Battle : War] The stars, heav'n sentry, wink and seem to die. - Theodosius [Stars] As man; false man, smiling destructive man. - Theodosius (act III, sc. 2, l. 50) [Man]
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