Selected Dramas of John Dryden: With The RehearsalScott, Foresman, 1910 - 504 страници |
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... play , and next with the Folio , and a record was made of all variants . Then these variants were com- pared with the readings of the quartos ( in which form Dryden's separate plays were always printed ) intermediate between the first ...
... play , and next with the Folio , and a record was made of all variants . Then these variants were com- pared with the readings of the quartos ( in which form Dryden's separate plays were always printed ) intermediate between the first ...
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... plays , but showed that in the third quarto of The Spanish Friar Dryden , or some other person , had made four ... play was again chosen as the basis of the present text . The long labor of colla- tion had merely shown the general ...
... plays , but showed that in the third quarto of The Spanish Friar Dryden , or some other person , had made four ... play was again chosen as the basis of the present text . The long labor of colla- tion had merely shown the general ...
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... play . Corneille is willing to extend the time limit to twenty - four hours or a little over , and to regard any action confined to the limits of a single city as conforming to the unity of place . ( See his Discours sur les Trois ...
... play . Corneille is willing to extend the time limit to twenty - four hours or a little over , and to regard any action confined to the limits of a single city as conforming to the unity of place . ( See his Discours sur les Trois ...
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... play . Dryden in his Essay of Heroic Plays has given us a good account of The Siege of Rhodes and of his own indebtedness to it . One paragraph of this essay is especially important : " For heroic plays , ( in which only I have us'd it ...
... play . Dryden in his Essay of Heroic Plays has given us a good account of The Siege of Rhodes and of his own indebtedness to it . One paragraph of this essay is especially important : " For heroic plays , ( in which only I have us'd it ...
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... plays Orrery says in a private - letter ( date unknown ) : " I have now finished a play in the French manner , because I heard the King does declare himself more in favor of their way of writing than ours . My poor example cannot please ...
... plays Orrery says in a private - letter ( date unknown ) : " I have now finished a play in the French manner , because I heard the King does declare himself more in favor of their way of writing than ours . My poor example cannot please ...
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Страница 458 - Never ; he will not : Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety : other women cloy The appetites they feed : but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies : for vilest things Become themselves in her; that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish.
Страница 237 - Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
Страница xxiii - A tragi-comedy is not so called in respect of mirth and killing, but in respect it wants deaths, which is enough to make it no tragedy, yet brings some near to it, which is enough to make it no comedy...
Страница 444 - He was perfumed like a milliner ; And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose, and took't away again ; — Who therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff : — and still he smil'd and talk'd . And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by.
Страница 248 - They said they would not fight for Cleopatra. Why should they fight indeed, to make her conquer, And make you more a slave ? to gain you kingdoms, Which, for a kiss, at your next midnight feast, You'll sell to her?
Страница 294 - O hold ! she is not fled. ANT. She is: my eyes Are open to her falsehood; my whole life Has been a golden dream of love and friendship; But, now I wake, I'm like a merchant, roused From soft repose, to see his vessel sinking, And all his wealth cast over.
Страница 277 - Can I do this? Ah, no, my love's so true, That I can neither hide it where it is, Nor show it where it is not. Nature meant me A wife; a silly, harmless, household dove, Fond without art, and kind without deceit...
Страница 271 - Go to him, children, go; Kneel to him, take him by the hand, speak to him ; For you may speak, and he may own you too, Without a blush; and so he cannot all His children: go, I say, and pull him to me, And pull him to yourselves, from that bad woman.
Страница 449 - Melantha is as finished an impertinent as ever fluttered in a drawing-room, and seems to contain the most complete system of female foppery, that could possibly be crowded into the tortured form of a fine lady. Her language, dress, motion, manners, soul, and body, are in a continual hurry to be something more than is necessary or commendable. And though I doubt it will be a vain labour, to offer you a just likeness of Mrs.
Страница 284 - O, wheel you there ? Observe him now ; the Man begins to mend, And talk substantial reason. Fear not, Eunuch, The Emperor has giv'n thee leave to speak. Alex. Else had I never dar'd t...