The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Band 8A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... doors ! a very civil employment for a deity ! 66 Sos . The better sort of them will say , Upon my honour , " at every word ; yet ask them for our wages , and they plead the privilege of their honour , and will not pay us ; nor let us ...
... doors ! a very civil employment for a deity ! 66 Sos . The better sort of them will say , Upon my honour , " at every word ; yet ask them for our wages , and they plead the privilege of their honour , and will not pay us ; nor let us ...
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... doors , some damned mastiff dog may come out and worry me ; and then my thanks are thrown away upon them . Merc . [ Aside . ] Thou art a wicked rogue , and wilt have thy bargain before - hand ; therefore thou get'st not into the house ...
... doors , some damned mastiff dog may come out and worry me ; and then my thanks are thrown away upon them . Merc . [ Aside . ] Thou art a wicked rogue , and wilt have thy bargain before - hand ; therefore thou get'st not into the house ...
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... door ? or a ghost of somebody slain in the late bat- tle ? If he be , ' tis unconscionably done , to fright an honest man thus , who never drew weapon wrath- fully in all my life . Whatever wight he be , I am devilishly afraid , that's ...
... door ? or a ghost of somebody slain in the late bat- tle ? If he be , ' tis unconscionably done , to fright an honest man thus , who never drew weapon wrath- fully in all my life . Whatever wight he be , I am devilishly afraid , that's ...
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... door there . Merc . What business have you at that door , sir- rah ? Sos . This is our house ; and , when I am got in I will tell you more . Mere . Whose house is this , sauciness , that you are so familiar with , to call it ours ...
... door there . Merc . What business have you at that door , sir- rah ? Sos . This is our house ; and , when I am got in I will tell you more . Mere . Whose house is this , sauciness , that you are so familiar with , to call it ours ...
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... door in my own defence . Merc . If you come near the door , I recal my word , and break off the truce , and then expect [ Holds up his Cudgel . Sos . No , the devil take me if I do expect ; I have felt too well what sour fruit that crab ...
... door in my own defence . Merc . If you come near the door , I recal my word , and break off the truce , and then expect [ Holds up his Cudgel . Sos . No , the devil take me if I do expect ; I have felt too well what sour fruit that crab ...
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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 87 - FAIR Iris I love, and hourly I die, But not for a lip, nor a languishing eye: She's fickle and false, and there we agree, For I am as false and as fickle as she.
Seite 265 - Choose to sustain the smart, rather than leave her. My ravished eyes behold such charms about her, I can die with her, but not live without her ; One tender sigh of hers to see me languish, Will more than pay the price of my past anguish.
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 - 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 453 - The entertainment and show went forward, and most of the presenters went backward, or fell down; wine did so occupy their upper chambers.
Seite 455 - JANUS. Chronos, Chronos, mend thy pace, An hundred times the rolling sun Around the radiant belt has run In his revolving race. Behold, behold, the goal in sight, Spread thy fans, and wing thy flight.
Seite 12 - The labouring bee, when his sharp sting is gone, Forgets his golden work, and turns a drone : Such is a satire, when you take away That rage, in which his noble vigour lay.
Seite 134 - Drum. Now they charge on amain, Now they rally again: The Gods from above the Mad Labour behold, And pity Mankind that will perish for Gold. The Fainting Saxons quit their Ground, Their Trumpets Languish in the Sound...
Seite 459 - He was formed for a controvertist ; with sufficient learning ; with diction vehement and pointed, though often vulgar and incorrect : with unconquerable pertinacity ; with wit in the highest degree keen and sarcastick ; and with all those powers exalted and invigorated by just confidence in his cause.