The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...W. Miller, 1808 |
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... fate have run , And comedy is sunk to trick and pun . Now our machining lumber will not sell , And you no longer care for heaven or hell ; What stuff will please you next , the Lord can tell . Let them , who the rebellion first began To ...
... fate have run , And comedy is sunk to trick and pun . Now our machining lumber will not sell , And you no longer care for heaven or hell ; What stuff will please you next , the Lord can tell . Let them , who the rebellion first began To ...
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... fate and furies ! Limb . Ay , for all your fate and furies , I charge you , in his majesty's name , to keep the peace : now , disobey authority , if you dare . he Trick . Fear him not , sweet Mr Brainsick . Pleas . to Brain . But , if ...
... fate and furies ! Limb . Ay , for all your fate and furies , I charge you , in his majesty's name , to keep the peace : now , disobey authority , if you dare . he Trick . Fear him not , sweet Mr Brainsick . Pleas . to Brain . But , if ...
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... fate of his hero . This last sublime scene Dryden has not ventured to imi- tate ; and the rants of Lee are a poor substitute for the calm and determined despair of the " Edipus Coloneus . " Seneca , perhaps to check the seeds of vice in ...
... fate of his hero . This last sublime scene Dryden has not ventured to imi- tate ; and the rants of Lee are a poor substitute for the calm and determined despair of the " Edipus Coloneus . " Seneca , perhaps to check the seeds of vice in ...
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... fate of Œdi- pus and of Thebes , the ravages of the pestilence , and the aven- ging of the death of Laius , are all secondary and subordinate con- siderations to the loves of Theseus and Dirce , as flat and unin- teresting a pair as ...
... fate of Œdi- pus and of Thebes , the ravages of the pestilence , and the aven- ging of the death of Laius , are all secondary and subordinate con- siderations to the loves of Theseus and Dirce , as flat and unin- teresting a pair as ...
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... fate . But purblind man Sees but a part o'the chain ; the nearest links ; His eyes not carrying to that equal beam , That poises all above.- The prologue states , that the play , if damned , may be recorded as the " first buried since ...
... fate . But purblind man Sees but a part o'the chain ; the nearest links ; His eyes not carrying to that equal beam , That poises all above.- The prologue states , that the play , if damned , may be recorded as the " first buried since ...
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Страница 229 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue: if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost...
Страница 291 - I am giddy, expectation whirls me round. The imaginary relish is so sweet That it enchants my sense. What will it be When that the watery...
Страница 264 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. Duch. Alas ! poor Richard ! where rides he the while ? York. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Страница 249 - The first rule which Bossu prescribes to the writer of an heroic poem, and which holds too by the same reason in all dramatic poetry, is to make the moral of the work, that is, to lay down to yourself what that precept of morality shall be, which you would insinuate into the people...
Страница 261 - I. cannot deny that he has his failings; but they are not so much in the passions themselves as in his manner of expression: he often obscures his meaning by his words, and sometimes makes it unintelligible. I will not say of so great a poet that he distinguished not the blown puffy style from true sublimity; but I may venture to maintain that the fury of his fancy often transported him beyond the bounds of judgment, either in coining of new words and phrases, or racking words which were in use into...
Страница 313 - Can life be a blessing, Or worth the possessing, Can life be a blessing, if love were away? Ah, no! though our love all night keep us waking, And though he torment us with cares all the day, Yet he sweetens, he sweetens our pains in the taking; There's an hour at the last, there's an hour to repay. In...
Страница 229 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...
Страница 194 - E'en wondered at because he dropt no sooner; Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years; Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more, Till, like a clock worn out with eating Time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still.
Страница 252 - A character, or that which distinguishes one man from all others, cannot be supposed to consist of one particular virtue, or vice, or passion only; but 'tis a composition of qualities which are not contrary to one another in the same person...
Страница 253 - Tis one of the excellencies of Shakespeare that the manners of his persons are generally apparent, and you see their bent and inclinations.