The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volumen5A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... vent , and let the sluices go . Ind . My tears are all congeal'd , and will not flow . Mel . Have comfort ; yield not to the blows of fate . Ind . Comfort , like cordials after death , comes late . Name not so vain a word ; my hopes are ...
... vent , and let the sluices go . Ind . My tears are all congeal'd , and will not flow . Mel . Have comfort ; yield not to the blows of fate . Ind . Comfort , like cordials after death , comes late . Name not so vain a word ; my hopes are ...
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... Vent . Not see him , say you ? I say , I must , and will . Gent . He has commanded , On pain of death , none should approach his presence . Vent . I bring him news will raise his drooping spirits , Give him new life . Gent . He sees not ...
... Vent . Not see him , say you ? I say , I must , and will . Gent . He has commanded , On pain of death , none should approach his presence . Vent . I bring him news will raise his drooping spirits , Give him new life . Gent . He sees not ...
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... Vent . Fine pageantry ! Serap . Set before your doors The images of all your sleeping fathers , [ Aside . With laurels crown'd ; with laurels wreath your posts , And strew with flowers the pavement ; let the priests Do present sacrifice ...
... Vent . Fine pageantry ! Serap . Set before your doors The images of all your sleeping fathers , [ Aside . With laurels crown'd ; with laurels wreath your posts , And strew with flowers the pavement ; let the priests Do present sacrifice ...
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... Vent . Would it had slept , Divided far from his ; till some remote And future age had call'd it out , to ruin Some other prince , not him ! Alex . Your emperor , Though grown unkind , would be more gentle , than To upbraid my queen for ...
... Vent . Would it had slept , Divided far from his ; till some remote And future age had call'd it out , to ruin Some other prince , not him ! Alex . Your emperor , Though grown unkind , would be more gentle , than To upbraid my queen for ...
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... Vent . [ Aside . ] On my soul , " Tis mournful , wondrous mournful ! Ant . Count thy gains . Now , Antony , wouldst thou be born for this ! Glutton of fortune , thy devouring youth Has starved thy wanting age . Vent . How sorrow shakes ...
... Vent . [ Aside . ] On my soul , " Tis mournful , wondrous mournful ! Ant . Count thy gains . Now , Antony , wouldst thou be born for this ! Glutton of fortune , thy devouring youth Has starved thy wanting age . Vent . How sorrow shakes ...
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Adam Alex ALEXAS Amboyna angels Antony Antony and Cleopatra Arim arms ASMODAY Aureng-Zebe Beam BEAMONT bear beauty Behold betwixt brave Cæsar CHARMION chuse Cleo Cleopatra command confess crime dare death design'd DIANET Dola Dolabella Dryden Dutch Egypt emperor English Enter Exeunt Exit eyes farewell fate father favour fear fight Fisc foes forgive fortune give hand happy HARMAN haste hate 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 Serap shew sight slave soul speak stay sure tell thee thou thought Towerson true twas twill Vent Ventidius virtue Zebe
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Página 173 - 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 323 - Errors like Straws upon the surface flow; He who would search for Pearls must dive below.
Página 356 - I'm eager to return before I go; For, all the pleasures I have known beat thick On my remembrance. — How I long for night! That both the sweets of mutual love may try, And triumph once o'er Caesar ere we die.
Página 172 - Tis much more hard to please himself than you ; And, out of no feigned modesty, this day Damns his laborious trifle of a play ; Not that it's worse than what before he writ, 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...
Página 356 - I'll rather die, than take it. Will you go? Ant. Go ! Whither ? Go from all that's excellent ! Faith, honour, virtue, all good things forbid, That I should go from her, who sets my love Above the price of kingdoms.
Página 382 - Unmark'd of those that hear. Then she's so charming, Age buds at sight of her, and swells to youth: The holy priests gaze on her when she smiles, And with heav'd hands, forgetting gravity, They bless her wanton eyes: even I, who hate her, With a malignant joy behold such beauty, And, while I curse, desire it.
Página 363 - That men's desiring eyes were never wearied, But hung upon the object : To soft flutes The silver oars kept time ; and while they played, The hearing gave new pleasure to the sight ; And both to thought.
Página 409 - With them, the wreath of victory I made (Vain augury!) for him who now lies dead. You, Iras, bring the cure of all our ills.
Página 325 - On the utmost margin of the water-mark. Then, with so swift an ebb the flood drove backward, It slipt from underneath the scaly herd : Here monstrous phocaa panted on the shore ; Forsaken dolphins there, with their broad tails Lay lashing the departing waves : hard by them, Sea-horses' flound'ring in the slimy mud, Toss'd up their heads, and dash'd the ooze about them.