tyrannic

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Tyrannic Love; or the Royal Martyr, a Tragedy, acted at the theatre-royal 1679.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III by Cibber, Theophilus

And thou, O filial piety, that rul'st My woman's breast, turn to vindictive rage; Assume the port of justice; show mankind Tyrannic guilt hath never dar'd in Syracuse, Beyond the reach of virtue.

From The Grecian Daughter by Murphy, Arthur

A striking example would be the Song of the Spirits in Dryden's Tyrannic Love, Act iv.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Summers, Montague

Tyrannic Love" or "The Conquest of Granada": "Rapier and pike, is that thy honored play?

From The Age of Shakespeare by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

The first fruits of the bargain were a prose-comedy called The Mock Astrologer and two heroic tragedies entitled Tyrannic Love and The Conquest of Granada, the latter being in two parts.

From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by Masson, David