The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Band 8A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... stands excused , for wanting sense ; And wits turn blockheads in their own defence . Yet , though the stage's traffic is undone , * Still Julian's interloping trade goes on : Though satire on the theatre you smother , Yet , in lampoons ...
... stands excused , for wanting sense ; And wits turn blockheads in their own defence . Yet , though the stage's traffic is undone , * Still Julian's interloping trade goes on : Though satire on the theatre you smother , Yet , in lampoons ...
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... stand my father's thunderbolts , than my step- mother's railing . Merc . When the tongue - battle was over , and the championess had harnessed her peacocks to go for Samos , and hear the prayers that were made to her Pho . By the way ...
... stand my father's thunderbolts , than my step- mother's railing . Merc . When the tongue - battle was over , and the championess had harnessed her peacocks to go for Samos , and hear the prayers that were made to her Pho . By the way ...
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... stand the fury of three talking women ! I think , in my conscience , I made their tongues of thunder . Brom . [ Pulling him on one side . ] I asked the first question ; answer me , my lord . Phæd . [ Pulling him on the other side ...
... stand the fury of three talking women ! I think , in my conscience , I made their tongues of thunder . Brom . [ Pulling him on one side . ] I asked the first question ; answer me , my lord . Phæd . [ Pulling him on the other side ...
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... pay us ; nor let us take our privilege of the law upon them . These are a very hopeful sort of patriots , to stand up , as they do , for liberty and property of the subject : There's conscience for you ! ACT II . 31 AMPHITRYON .
... pay us ; nor let us take our privilege of the law upon them . These are a very hopeful sort of patriots , to stand up , as they do , for liberty and property of the subject : There's conscience for you ! ACT II . 31 AMPHITRYON .
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... stands just before him . Sos . [ Seeing him , and starting back , aside . ] How now ? what , do my eyes dazzle , or is my dark lan- thorn false to me ! is not that a giant before our door ? or a ghost of somebody slain in the late bat ...
... stands just before him . Sos . [ Seeing him , and starting back , aside . ] How now ? what , do my eyes dazzle , or is my dark lan- thorn false to me ! is not that a giant before our door ? or a ghost of somebody slain in the late bat ...
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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.