Pleasant pastime; or, Drawing-room dramas [by - Clode?].1850 |
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Abdallah Abdulla Achmet Ahmed Ahmed's Ali Cogia Allah Amima Arthur Hall artists astrologer Bagdat believe beloved Beppo BIANCHINI blessed Bogrhoo bows Bozza brother cadi Cadiga Caliph Ceccato Cloth cobbler Codabad Cogia Commander Costume curtain falls daughter Diego Doge DONNA Enter Exeunt Exit Faithful Fanzee Farewell Faroon FATIMA and YUSUPH fear Francisco Zuccato Giafar gold hand handsomely bound happy Haroun head heart holy husband Inez INSTRUCTIVE & AMUSING Isabella Isabella of Castile Ispahan Jailer jars King kneels Leila Long live look Madoura Margiana Maria Marini Mark's Mecca Melchiore merciful Mesched Midraub moon noble olive merchants Oviedo Paternoster Row piasters poor prison procurators prophet Queen Reis Merooka Robber SCENE Selim SHACKABAC Shah Abbas slave slippers sultan SUSAN HOPLEY tell thee thou Tintoretto truth turban Venice Vincent Virtue Vizier whilst wife woman Young Zamre Zanza Zara Zeeba Zittara Zohrab
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Page 134 - MID pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!
Page 134 - An exile from home, splendor dazzles in vain; Oh, give me my lowly thatched cottage again! The birds singing gaily, that came at my call— Give me them— and the peace of mind, dearer than all! Home, home, sweet, sweet home! There's no place like home, there's no place like home!
Page 72 - Is there any one so foolish," he asks, " as to believe that there are antipodes with their feet opposite to ours ; people who walk with their heels upward, and their heads hanging down ? That there is a part of the world in which all things are topsyturvy : where the trees grow with their branches downward, and where it rains, hails and snows upward ? The idea of the roundness of the earth...
Page 53 - The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins, And next the Crab the Lion shines, The Virgin and the Scales ; The Scorpion, Archer and He-goat, The Man that holds the watering-pot And Fish with glittering tails.