The Complete Works
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ISBN13: 9780217072946
Paperback|9780217072946
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ADVERTISEMENT. This production is founded partly on the story of a Novel called The Three Brothers, published many years ago, from which M. G. Lewis's Wood Demon was also taken?and partly on the Faust of the great Goethe. The present publication contains the two first parts only, and the opening chorus of the third. The rest may perhaps appear hereafter. DRAMATIS PERSONS. STRANGER, afterwards Cjssak. ARNOLD. BOURBON. PHILIBERT. CELLINI. WOMEN. BERTHA. OLIMPIA. Spirits, Soldiers, Citizens of Rome, Priests, Peasants, etc.THE DEFORMED TRANSFORMED. PART I. SCENE I.?A FOREST. Enter ARNOLD and hit mother BERTHA. BERTHA. Out, hunchback ARNOLD. I was born so, mother BERTHA. Thou incubus Thou night-mare Of seven sons The sole abortion ARNOLD. Would that I had been so, And never seen the light BERTHA. I would so too But as thou hast?hence, hence?and do thy best. That back of thine may bear its burthen; 'tis More high, if not so broad as that of others. Arnold. Itbears its burthen;?but, my heart Will it Sustain that which you lay upon it, mother? I love, or, at the least, I loved you: nothing Save you, in nature, can love aught like me. You nursed me?do not kill me BERTHA. Yes?I nursed thee, Because thou wert my first-born, and I knew not If there would be another unlike thee, That monstrous sport of nature. But get hence, And gather wood Arnold. I will: but when I bring it, Speak to me kindly. Though my brothers are So beautiful and lusty, and as free As the free chase they follow, do not spurn me: Our milk has been the same. BERTHA. As is the hedge-hog's, Which sucks at midnight from the wholesome dam Of the young bull, until the milkmaid finds The nipple next day sore and ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217072946 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217072941 |
| Weight | 1.16 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.80 In |
| List Price | $21.70 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 358 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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