Women Pleased by John Fletcher: “There is a very comic scene in Beaumont and Fletcher's play of "Woman Pleased," where Hope-on-high Bombye, a puritan cobbler, refuses to dance with the hobby-horse.”
Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “Coleridge's beautiful and tantalizing fragment of Christabel.”
The History of Prince Soly by Henri Pajon: “Monsieur Pajon, author of the History of Prince Soly, has set a diverting example of the same machinery,”
Count Basil by Joanna Baillie: “How steadfastly he fix'd his eyes on me-- His dark eyes shining through forgotten tears-- Then stretch'd his little arms, and call'd me mother! What could I do? I took the bantling home-- I could not tell the imp he had no mother. COUNT BASIL.”
Richard II by William Shakespeare: “I give this heavy weight from off my head, And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand; With mine own tears I wash away my balm, With mine own hand I give away my crown, With mine own tongue deny my sacred state, With mine own breath release all duteous oaths. RICHARD II.”
Henry VI by William Shakespeare: “Pray God she prove not masculine ere long! KING HENRY VI.”
King John by William Shakespeare: “Poison'd--ill fare!--dead, forsook, cast off!-- KING JOHN.”
Books that mention The Abbot (1)
Dubliners by James Joyce: “Among these I found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: The Abbot, by Walter Scott, The Devout Communicant and The Memoirs of Vidocq.”