The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Band 8A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... play on the subject of Amphitryon , which has had the honour to be deemed worthy of imitation by Moliere and Dryden . It cannot be expected , that the plain , blunt , and inartificial style of so rude an age should bear any comparison ...
... play on the subject of Amphitryon , which has had the honour to be deemed worthy of imitation by Moliere and Dryden . It cannot be expected , that the plain , blunt , and inartificial style of so rude an age should bear any comparison ...
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... play , and read it over with as much of criticisme and ill nature as ye time ( being about one in ye morning , and in bed ) would permit . Going to sleep very well pleasd , I could not leave my bed in ye morning without this sacrifice ...
... play , and read it over with as much of criticisme and ill nature as ye time ( being about one in ye morning , and in bed ) would permit . Going to sleep very well pleasd , I could not leave my bed in ye morning without this sacrifice ...
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... for the stage . This comedy was acted and printed in 1690. It was very favourably received ; and continued long to be what is called a stock - play . ΤΟ THE HONOURABLE SIR WILLIAM LEVESON GOWER , BARONET . 6 AMPHITRYON .
... for the stage . This comedy was acted and printed in 1690. It was very favourably received ; and continued long to be what is called a stock - play . ΤΟ THE HONOURABLE SIR WILLIAM LEVESON GOWER , BARONET . 6 AMPHITRYON .
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... play . But what has been wanting on my part , has been abundant- ly supplied by the excellent composition of Mr Pur- cell , in whose person we have at length found an Englishman , equal with the best abroad . At least , my opinion of ...
... play . But what has been wanting on my part , has been abundant- ly supplied by the excellent composition of Mr Pur- cell , in whose person we have at length found an Englishman , equal with the best abroad . At least , my opinion of ...
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... play , which might have passed on vulgar understandings . Be pleased to use the authority of a father over her , on my behalf ; enjoin her to keep her own thoughts of Amphitryon " to herself ; or at least not to com- pare him too ...
... play , which might have passed on vulgar understandings . Be pleased to use the authority of a father over her , on my behalf ; enjoin her to keep her own thoughts of Amphitryon " to herself ; or at least not to com- pare him too ...
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Achæans Alcm Alcmena Alph Alphonso Amph Amphitryon Antigonus Aratus arms Arth Arthur betwixt bless brave Brom Bromia Carl Carlos Cassandra CELIDEA Chor Clean Cleanthes Cleom Cleomenes Cleon Cleor Conde Crat Dalinda dare death devil Dryden Egypt Emmeline Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair fate father favour fear foes fool GARCIA give gods GRIMBALD Grip Gripus hand hear heart heaven Hengo honour hope JOHN DRYDEN Jupiter kind king King Arthur kiss lady leave live look lord lordship lover madam Merc mistress never night noble on't Oswald Panth Pantheus Phad Phæd Phædra Phil PHILIDEL play poet Ptol Ptolemy Ramirez Sancho SCENE Sosia Sosib SOSIBIUS soul Spartan speak sure sword Tegea tell thee there's thou art thou hast thought Twas Veramond Vict Victoria wife word XIMENA
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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.