The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author, Volumen5William Miller, 1808 |
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... Poetic Licence , Aureng - Zebe , a Tragedy , . 95 .... 105 167 174 Epistle Dedicatory to the Earl of Mul- grave , ... All for Love , or the World Well Lost , a Tragedy , 285 Epistle Dedicatory to the Earl of Danby , 296 Preface , • 306 ...
... Poetic Licence , Aureng - Zebe , a Tragedy , . 95 .... 105 167 174 Epistle Dedicatory to the Earl of Mul- grave , ... All for Love , or the World Well Lost , a Tragedy , 285 Epistle Dedicatory to the Earl of Danby , 296 Preface , • 306 ...
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... poets raise their audience in highest subjects , and they have then gained over them the greatest vic- tory , when they are ravished into a pleasure which is not to be expressed by words . To this pitch , my lord , the sense of my ...
... poets raise their audience in highest subjects , and they have then gained over them the greatest vic- tory , when they are ravished into a pleasure which is not to be expressed by words . To this pitch , my lord , the sense of my ...
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... wealth by lots , While wantonly we raffle for the rest : Then , in full rummers , and with joyful hearts , We'll drink confusion to all English starts . [ Exeunt . EPILOGUE . A POET Once the Spartans led to fight 86 ACT V. AMBOYNA .
... wealth by lots , While wantonly we raffle for the rest : Then , in full rummers , and with joyful hearts , We'll drink confusion to all English starts . [ Exeunt . EPILOGUE . A POET Once the Spartans led to fight 86 ACT V. AMBOYNA .
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... POET Once the Spartans led to fight , And made them conquer in the muse's right ; So would our poet lead you on this day , Showing your tortured fathers in his play . To one well - born the affront is worse , and more , When he's abused ...
... POET Once the Spartans led to fight , And made them conquer in the muse's right ; So would our poet lead you on this day , Showing your tortured fathers in his play . To one well - born the affront is worse , and more , When he's abused ...
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... poets , in particular , seemed to have gazed on its excellencies , like the inferior ani- mals on Dryden's immortal Hind ; and , incapable of fully estima- ting a merit , which , in some degree , they could not help feel- ing , many ...
... poets , in particular , seemed to have gazed on its excellencies , like the inferior ani- mals on Dryden's immortal Hind ; and , incapable of fully estima- ting a merit , which , in some degree , they could not help feel- ing , many ...
Términos y frases comunes
Adam Aler Alex ALEXAS Amboyna Antony Antony and Cleopatra Arim arms art thou ASMODAY Aureng-Zebe Beam BEAMONT bear beauty behold betray betwixt brave Cæsar CHARMION chuse Cleo Cleopatra command confess crime dare death DIANET Dola Dolabella Dryden Dutch Egypt emperor English Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fame farewell fate father favour fear fight Fisc foes forgive fortune give hand happy HARMAN haste hear heart heaven honour hope INDAMORA Iras Isab Isabinda JOHN DRYDEN kind king leave live look lord lost Lucif madam Melesinda Methinks mind mistress Morat nature ne'er never Nour o'er Octav Octavia pain passion pity pleased poet poetry praise queen Roman ruin scene scorn Serap shew sight slave soul speak stay sure tell thee thou thought Towerson twas twill Vent Ventidius virtue wish
Pasajes populares
Página 291 - Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them...
Página 171 - tis all a cheat, Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay ; To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse ; and, while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Página 408 - Thou best of thieves ; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves ; discharging so Death's dreadful office, better than himself; Touching our limbs so gently into slumber, That death stands by, deceived by his own image, And thinks himself but sleep.
Página 360 - With sceptred slaves, who waited to salute me? With eastern monarchs, who forgot the sun, To worship my uprising? Menial kings Ran coursing up and down my palace-yard...
Página 403 - I will not make a business of a trifle; And yet I cannot look on you, and kill you; Pray turn your face.
Página 337 - I've been too passionate. Vent. You thought me false; Thought my old age betrayed you. Kill me, sir; Pray, kill me; yet you need not, your unkindness Has left your sword no work. Ant. I did not think so; I said it in my rage: pr'ythee, forgive me. Why didst thou tempt my anger, by discovery Of what I would not hear?
Página 354 - My queen's not only innocent, but loves me. This, this is she, who drags me down to ruin! " But, could she scape without me, with what haste Would she let slip her hold, and make to shore, And never look behind ! " Down on thy knees, blasphemer as thou art, And ask forgiveness of wronged innocence.
Página 406 - Caesar's pride ? What! to be led in triumph through the streets, A spectacle to base plebeian eyes; While some dejected friend of Antony's, Close in a corner, shakes his head, and mutters A secret curse on her who ruined him?
Página 331 - Lie there, thou shadow of an emperor; The place thou pressest on thy mother earth Is all thy empire now: now it contains thee; Some few days hence, and then 'twill be too large, When thou'rt contracted in thy narrow urn, Shrunk to a few cold ashes; then Octavia (For Cleopatra will not live to see it), Octavia then will have thee all her own, And bear thee in her...