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...sinner! consider the fearful danger you are in. 'Tis a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit. . . that you are held over in the hand of God. . . You hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it and ready every moment to singe it and burn it asunder; and you have. . . nothing to lay hold of to save yourself, nothing to keep off the flames of wrath. . . nothing that you have ever done, nothing that you can do, to induce God to spare you one moment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...Lord Barrenstock and Epicene, "What's it to me that you have been "In your pursuit of interdicted joys "Seducer of a hundred little boys . . . ? "Tis not for these unsocial acts, not these "I wet my pen! . . . "But oh! your tie is crooked and I see "Too plain you had an eclair for your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cinderella | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...Rather 'tis night, black night, and full of vice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...scale the dramaturgic heights in the grand manner. Those who preferred the new school of low-key interpretation considered that Actor Gielgud admirably analyzed his own fluid impersonation of the world's best-known literary case of frustration when in Scene II Hamlet informs the Queen: 'Tis not alone my inky cloak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Actor to Elsinore | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...Romeo, Romeo! . . . 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy. What's in a name? That which we call a rose be any other name would small as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called, retain that dear perfection which he owes without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, and for thy name, which is no part of thee, take all myself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 10/9/1936 | See Source »

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