The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Band 8A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... hast been a bawd too , a reverend , primitive , original bawd , from the first hour of thy creation ; and all the laudable actions of love have been committed under thy mantle . Pr'ythee , for what dost thou think that thou art wor ...
... hast been a bawd too , a reverend , primitive , original bawd , from the first hour of thy creation ; and all the laudable actions of love have been committed under thy mantle . Pr'ythee , for what dost thou think that thou art wor ...
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... hast not wherewithal to be in love . Merc . Yes , a poor man may be in love , I hope . Phad . I grant a poor rogue may be in love , but he can never make love . Alas , Sosia , thou hast neither face to invite me , nor youth to please me ...
... hast not wherewithal to be in love . Merc . Yes , a poor man may be in love , I hope . Phad . I grant a poor rogue may be in love , but he can never make love . Alas , Sosia , thou hast neither face to invite me , nor youth to please me ...
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... hast thou told me ! such impro- babilities , such stuff , such nonsense that the mon- ster , with two long horns , that frighted the great king , and the devil at the stone - cutter's , are truths to these . * The author alludes to some ...
... hast thou told me ! such impro- babilities , such stuff , such nonsense that the mon- ster , with two long horns , that frighted the great king , and the devil at the stone - cutter's , are truths to these . * The author alludes to some ...
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... hast set up a trade that thou hast not stock enough to manage . O that I had but a crab - tree cudgel for thy sake ! Sos . How , a cudgel , said you ! the devil take Ju- piter for inventing that hard - hearted , merciless , knob- by ...
... hast set up a trade that thou hast not stock enough to manage . O that I had but a crab - tree cudgel for thy sake ! Sos . How , a cudgel , said you ! the devil take Ju- piter for inventing that hard - hearted , merciless , knob- by ...
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... hast , with impudence , affirmed My false return , and bribed my slaves to vouch it , The truth shall , in the face of Thebes , be cleared : Thy uncle , the companion of my voyage , And all the crew of seamen shall be brought , Who were ...
... hast , with impudence , affirmed My false return , and bribed my slaves to vouch it , The truth shall , in the face of Thebes , be cleared : Thy uncle , the companion of my voyage , And all the crew of seamen shall be brought , Who were ...
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Seite 453 - Sheba; but he fell down and humbled himself before her, and was carried to an inner chamber, and laid on a bed of state, which was not a little defiled with the presents of the Queen which had been bestowed on his garments; such as wine, cream, jelly, beverage, cakes, spices, and other good matters.
Seite 460 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them.
Seite 459 - His onset was violent: those passages which while they stood single had passed with little notice, when they were accumulated and exposed together, excited horror; the wise and the pious caught the alarm, and the nation wondered why it had so long suffered irreligion and licentiousness to be openly taught at the public charge.
Seite 444 - Nassau to Kneller's hand decreed To fix him graceful on the bounding steed; So well in paint and stone they judg'd of merit: But kings in wit may want discerning spirit.
Seite 265 - Then no day void of bliss or pleasure leaving Ages shall slide away without perceiving: Cupid shall guard the door the more to please us. And keep out time and death when they would seize us; Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
Seite 453 - I will now, in good sooth, declare to you, who will not blab, that the gunpowder fright is got out of all our heads, and we are going on, hereabouts, as if the devil was contriving every man should blow up himself, by wild riot, excess, and devastation of time and temperance.
Seite 401 - Her eyes, her lips, her cheeks, her shape, her features, Seem to be drawn by Love's own hand ; by Love, Himself in love...
Seite 459 - ... and sarcastic ; and with all those powers, exalted and invigorated by just confidence in his cause. " Thus qualified, and thus incited, he walked out to battle, and assailed at once most of the living writers, from Dryden to D'Urfey. His...
Seite 189 - ... distress or tenderness possessed her, she subsided into the most affecting melody and softness. In the art of exciting pity she had a power beyond all the actresses I have yet seen, or what your imagination can conceive. Of the former of these two great excellencies, she gave the most delightful proofs in almost all the heroic plays of Dryden and Lee ; and of the latter, in the softer passions of Otway's Monimia and Belvidera. In scenes of anger, defiance, or resentment, while she was impetuous,...
Seite 458 - All, all of a piece throughout ; Thy chase had a beast in view : Thy wars brought nothing about ; Thy lovers were all untrue. 'Tis well an old age is out, And time to begin a new.