The Works of John Dryden: Dramatic worksW. Paterson, 1883 |
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... never to be comprehended but by admiration ; and the greatest note of admiration is silence . It is that noble passion , to which poets raise their audience in highest subjects , and they have then gained over them the greatest victory ...
... never to be comprehended but by admiration ; and the greatest note of admiration is silence . It is that noble passion , to which poets raise their audience in highest subjects , and they have then gained over them the greatest victory ...
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... never will forsake itself . * It is the interest of the * In this case , Dryden's praise- ( which did not always occur ) —survived the temporary occasion . Even in a little satirical effusion , he tells us , Clifford was fierce and ...
... never will forsake itself . * It is the interest of the * In this case , Dryden's praise- ( which did not always occur ) —survived the temporary occasion . Even in a little satirical effusion , he tells us , Clifford was fierce and ...
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... never attain to that pitch of virtue : He only endeavoured to prevent his fall by descending first , and offered to resign that wealth which he knew he could no longer hold ; he would only have made a present to his master of what he ...
... never attain to that pitch of virtue : He only endeavoured to prevent his fall by descending first , and offered to resign that wealth which he knew he could no longer hold ; he would only have made a present to his master of what he ...
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... never to be shaken off at any turn : Such who seem to have taken up a resolution of being great ; to continue their stations on the theatre of business ; to change with the scene , and shift the vizard for another part - these men ...
... never to be shaken off at any turn : Such who seem to have taken up a resolution of being great ; to continue their stations on the theatre of business ; to change with the scene , and shift the vizard for another part - these men ...
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... obeyed . [ Exit Skipper . Beam . I heartily rejoice that our employers have chose you for this place : a better choice they never could have made , or for themselves , or me . Col. This I am sure of , that our English SCENE I. 19 AMBOYNA .
... obeyed . [ Exit Skipper . Beam . I heartily rejoice that our employers have chose you for this place : a better choice they never could have made , or for themselves , or me . Col. This I am sure of , that our English SCENE I. 19 AMBOYNA .
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Página 258 - ... 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 312 - So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings: at the helm A seeming mermaid steers: the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her ; and Antony, Enthroned i...
Página 311 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Página 397 - Men are but Children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain ; And yet the Soul, shut up in her dark room, Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing ; But, like a Mole in Earth...
Página 348 - ... soul; and then he starts out wide, And bounds into a vice, that bears him far From his first course, and plunges him in ills: But, when his danger makes him find his fault, Quick to observe, and full of sharp remorse, He censures eagerly his own misdeeds, Judging himself with malice to himself, And not forgiving what as man he did, Because his other parts are more than man.— He must not thus be lost.
Página 432 - And now to die each other's ; and, so dying, While hand in hand we walk in groves below, Whole troops of lovers' ghosts shall flock about us, And all the train be ours.
Página 312 - She lay, and leant her cheek upon her hand, And cast a look so languishingly sweet, As if, secure of all beholders...
Página 333 - ... that we do it for a poor subsistence ; but what can be urged in their defence, who, not having the vocation of poverty to scribble, out of mere wantonness take pains to make themselves ridiculous ? Horace was certainly in the right, where he said, that no man is satisfied "with his own condition.
Página 431 - We live both. Sit thee down, my Cleopatra: I'll make the most I can of life, to stay A moment more with thee.
Página 182 - But he has now another taste of wit; And, to confess a truth, though out of time, Grows weary of his long-loved mistress, Rhyme. Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound, And Nature flies him like enchanted ground...