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[ Among a number of other instances of words chosen without reason, Imogine in the first act declares, that thunder-storms were not able to intercept her prayers for “the desperate man, in desperate ways who dealt”——
“Yea, when the launched bolt did sear her sense,
Her soul’s deep orisons were breathed for him;”
that is, when a red-hot bolt, launched at her from a thunder-cloud, had cauterized her sense, to plain English, burnt her eyes out of her head, she kept still praying on.
“Was not this love? Yea, thus doth woman love!”]
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[ This sort of repetition is one of this writers peculiarities, and there is scarce a page which does not furnish one or more instances—Ex. gr. in the first page or two. Act I, line 7th, “and deemed that I might sleep.”—Line 10, “Did rock and quiver in the bickering glare.”—Lines 14, 15, 16, “But by the momently gleams of sheeted blue, Did the pale marbles dare so sternly on me, I almost deemed they lived.”—Line 37, “The glare of Hell.”—Line 35, “O holy Prior, this is no earthly storm.”—Line 38, “This is no earthly storm.”—Line 42, “Dealing with us.”—Line 43, “Deal thus sternly:”—Line 44, “Speak! thou hast something seen?”—“A fearful sight!”—Line 45, “What hast thou seen! A piteous, fearful sight.”—Line 48, “quivering gleams.”—Line 50, “In the hollow pauses of the storm.”—Line 61, “The pauses of the storm, etc.”]
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[ The child is an important personage, for I see not by what possible means the author could have ended the second and third acts but for its timely appearance. How ungrateful then not further to notice its fate!]