The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 4A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... speak more properly , not to dedicate , but to restore to you those ideas , which in the more perfect part of my characters I have ta- ken from you . Heroes may lawfully be delighted with their own praises , both as they are farther in ...
... speak more properly , not to dedicate , but to restore to you those ideas , which in the more perfect part of my characters I have ta- ken from you . Heroes may lawfully be delighted with their own praises , both as they are farther in ...
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... kings we should not blame , When royal minds adorn the royal name ; The vulgar , greatness too much idolize , But haughty subjects it too much despise , Almans . I only speak of him , Whom pomp SCENE I. THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA . 55.
... kings we should not blame , When royal minds adorn the royal name ; The vulgar , greatness too much idolize , But haughty subjects it too much despise , Almans . I only speak of him , Whom pomp SCENE I. THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA . 55.
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... speak of him , Whom pomp and greatness sit so loose about , That he wants majesty to fill them out . Abdal . Haste , then , and lose no time ! - The business must be enterprized this night . We must surprise the court in its delight ...
... speak of him , Whom pomp and greatness sit so loose about , That he wants majesty to fill them out . Abdal . Haste , then , and lose no time ! - The business must be enterprized this night . We must surprise the court in its delight ...
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... speak too late ; my empire's lost too far : I cannot fight . Abdelm . Then make a flying war ; Dislodge betimes , before you are beset . Abdal . Her tears , her smiles , her every look's a net . Her voice is like a Syren's of the land ...
... speak too late ; my empire's lost too far : I cannot fight . Abdelm . Then make a flying war ; Dislodge betimes , before you are beset . Abdal . Her tears , her smiles , her every look's a net . Her voice is like a Syren's of the land ...
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... Speak quickly , woman ; I have much to do . Almah . Where should I find the heart to speak one word ? Your voice , sir , is as killing as your sword . As you have left the lightning of your eye , So would you please to lay your thunder ...
... Speak quickly , woman ; I have much to do . Almah . Where should I find the heart to speak one word ? Your voice , sir , is as killing as your sword . As you have left the lightning of your eye , So would you please to lay your thunder ...
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Page 211 - ... either in rejecting such old words, or phrases, which are ill sounding, or improper; or in admitting new, which are more proper, more sounding, and more significant.
Page 61 - Beneath a myrtle shade. Which love for none but happy lovers made, I slept ; and straight my love before me brought Phyllis, the object of my waking thought. Undressed she came my flames to meet, While love strewed flowers beneath her feet ; Flowers which, so pressed by her, became more sweet.
Page 225 - ... dull and heavy spirits of the English from their natural reservedness ; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation, and made them easy and pliant to each other in discourse. Thus, insensibly, our way of living became more free ; and the fire of the English wit, which...
Page 40 - I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Page 116 - A watchful fate o'ersees its tender years: Till, grown more strong, it thrusts and stretches out, And elbows all the kingdoms round about: The place thus made for its first breathing free, It moves again for ease and luxury; Till, swelling by degrees, it has...
Page 62 - A careless veil of lawn was loosely spread: From her white temples fell her shaded hair, Like cloudy sunshine not too brown nor fair: Her hands, her lips did love inspire; Her ev'ry grace my heart did fire : But most her eyes which languish'd with desire.
Page 66 - Tis he ; I feel him now in every part : Like a new lord he vaunts about my heart; Surveys, in state, each corner of my breast, While poor fierce I, that was, am dispossessed...
Page 353 - ... in my own defence, neither will I gratify the ambition of two wretched scribblers, who desire nothing more than to be answered. I have not wanted friends, even amongst strangers, who have defended me more strongly than my contemptible pedant could attack me ; for the other, he is only like Fungoso in the play, who follows the fashion at a distance, and adores the Fastidious Brisk of Oxford.
Page 5 - If from thy hands alone my death can be, I am immortal and a god to thee. If I would kill thee now, thy fate's so low, That I must stoop ere I can give the blow : But mine is fixed so far above thy crown, That all thy men, Piled on thy back, can never pull it down : But, at my ease, thy destiny I send, By ceasing from this hour to be thy friend.
Page 213 - Witness the lameness of their plots ; many of which, especially those which they writ first (for even that age refined itself in some measure), were made up of some ridiculous incoherent story, which in one play many times took up the business of an age.