The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Том 6A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... sure I should not need any to the world for my dedica- tion to your lordship ; and if you can pardon my presumption in it , that a bad poet should address himself to so great a judge of wit , I may hope at least to escape with the ...
... sure I should not need any to the world for my dedica- tion to your lordship ; and if you can pardon my presumption in it , that a bad poet should address himself to so great a judge of wit , I may hope at least to escape with the ...
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... sure it will give me a reputation with the present age , and with posterity . And now , my lord , I know you are afraid , lest I should take this occasion , which lies an uncommon strain of self - depreciation , or rather to give a neat ...
... sure it will give me a reputation with the present age , and with posterity . And now , my lord , I know you are afraid , lest I should take this occasion , which lies an uncommon strain of self - depreciation , or rather to give a neat ...
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... sure to be at the charges of the war . She knows he cannot live without her , and therefore seeks occasions of falling out , to make him purchase peace . I believe she is now aiming at a settlement . Wood . Might not I ask you one civil ...
... sure to be at the charges of the war . She knows he cannot live without her , and therefore seeks occasions of falling out , to make him purchase peace . I believe she is now aiming at a settlement . Wood . Might not I ask you one civil ...
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... Sure you expect some kindness in return ? Aldo . Faith , not much : Nature in me is at low water - mark ; my body's a jade , and tires under me ; yet I love to smuggle still in a corner ; pat them down , and pur over them ; but , after ...
... Sure you expect some kindness in return ? Aldo . Faith , not much : Nature in me is at low water - mark ; my body's a jade , and tires under me ; yet I love to smuggle still in a corner ; pat them down , and pur over them ; but , after ...
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... sure you would own it , for your credit . Aldo . Before George , I should not see it starve , for the mother's sake : For , if she were a punk , she was good - natured , I warrant her . Wood . [ Aside . ] Well , if ever son was blest ...
... sure you would own it , for your credit . Aldo . Before George , I should not see it starve , for the mother's sake : For , if she were a punk , she was good - natured , I warrant her . Wood . [ Aside . ] Well , if ever son was blest ...
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Страница 223 - High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
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Страница 117 - Yet man, vain man, would with his short-lined plummet Fathom the vast abyss of heavenly justice. Whatever is, is in its causes just, Since all things are by fate. But purblind man Sees but a part o' th' chain, the nearest links, His eyes not carrying to that equal beam That poises all above.
Страница 258 - God save him; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, — His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience ; — That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Страница 365 - AmboyS" upon the theatre ; but when I had taken up what I supposed a fallen star, I found I had been cozened with a jelly ;* nothing but a cold, dull mass, which glittered no longer than it was shooting...
Страница 223 - For time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And, with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Страница 440 - Kings' titles commonly begin by force, Which time wears off, and mellows into right; So power, which, in one age, is tyranny, Is ripened, in the next, to true succession: She's in possession.