The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, المجلد 4A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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الصفحة 6
... shew forth the character of a hero in thea- trical representation . It must be owned , however , that although the part of Alman- zor contains these and other bombastic passages , there are many also which convey what the poet desired ...
... shew forth the character of a hero in thea- trical representation . It must be owned , however , that although the part of Alman- zor contains these and other bombastic passages , there are many also which convey what the poet desired ...
الصفحة 7
... shew how the hero could support even an interview with an inhabitant of the other world . At least , the professed purpose of her coming might have been safely trusted to the virtue of Almahide , and her power over her lover . It ...
... shew how the hero could support even an interview with an inhabitant of the other world . At least , the professed purpose of her coming might have been safely trusted to the virtue of Almahide , and her power over her lover . It ...
الصفحة 25
... shew you , what men of great spirits would certainly do when they were provoked , not what they were obliged to do by the strict rules of moral virtue . For my own part , I de- clare myself for Homer and Tasso , and am more in love with ...
... shew you , what men of great spirits would certainly do when they were provoked , not what they were obliged to do by the strict rules of moral virtue . For my own part , I de- clare myself for Homer and Tasso , and am more in love with ...
الصفحة 49
... shew some difference , Betwixt a private person , and a prince . Lyndar . Princes are subjects still . Subject and subject can small difference bring : The difference is ' twixt subjects and a king . VOL . IV . D And since , sir , you ...
... shew some difference , Betwixt a private person , and a prince . Lyndar . Princes are subjects still . Subject and subject can small difference bring : The difference is ' twixt subjects and a king . VOL . IV . D And since , sir , you ...
الصفحة 51
... shew ' tis true , From any other man as soon as you . Abdal . Your sharp replies make me not love you less , But make me seek new paths to happiness . What I design , by time will best be seen ; You may be mine , and yet may be a queen ...
... shew ' tis true , From any other man as soon as you . Abdal . Your sharp replies make me not love you less , But make me seek new paths to happiness . What I design , by time will best be seen ; You may be mine , and yet may be a queen ...
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Abdal ABDALLA Abdelm ABDELMELECH Aben ABENAMAR Abencerrages Almah Almahide Almanz Almanzor Amal AMALTHEA Arcos Arga ARGALEON Asca ASCANIO Aurelian beauty Ben Jonson Benito Benz Benzayda betwixt Boab BOABDELIN brave Camillo command Conquest of Granada court crown dare dear death DORALICE Dryden Duke Duke of ARCOS Duke of Mantua Enter Eubulus Exeunt Exit fate father favour fear fight fortune Fred give Granada Guards HAMET hand happy haste hear heart heaven honour hope king lady Laura Leon Leonidas live look lovers Lucretia Lyndar LYNDARAXA madam MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE married Melantha mistress never night Ozmyn Pala Palamede Palm Palmyra pity play poet Poly prince queen revenge Rhodophil SCENE Selin shew soul speak stay sword tell thee there's thing thou art thought twas VIOLETTA virtue wife words Zegrys ZULEMA
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الصفحة 211 - ... either in rejecting such old words, or phrases, which are ill sounding, or improper; or in admitting new, which are more proper, more sounding, and more significant.
الصفحة 61 - Beneath a myrtle shade. Which love for none but happy lovers made, I slept ; and straight my love before me brought Phyllis, the object of my waking thought. Undressed she came my flames to meet, While love strewed flowers beneath her feet ; Flowers which, so pressed by her, became more sweet.
الصفحة 225 - ... dull and heavy spirits of the English from their natural reservedness ; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation, and made them easy and pliant to each other in discourse. Thus, insensibly, our way of living became more free ; and the fire of the English wit, which...
الصفحة 40 - I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
الصفحة 116 - A watchful fate o'ersees its tender years: Till, grown more strong, it thrusts and stretches out, And elbows all the kingdoms round about: The place thus made for its first breathing free, It moves again for ease and luxury; Till, swelling by degrees, it has...
الصفحة 62 - A careless veil of lawn was loosely spread: From her white temples fell her shaded hair, Like cloudy sunshine not too brown nor fair: Her hands, her lips did love inspire; Her ev'ry grace my heart did fire : But most her eyes which languish'd with desire.
الصفحة 66 - Tis he ; I feel him now in every part : Like a new lord he vaunts about my heart; Surveys, in state, each corner of my breast, While poor fierce I, that was, am dispossessed...
الصفحة 353 - ... in my own defence, neither will I gratify the ambition of two wretched scribblers, who desire nothing more than to be answered. I have not wanted friends, even amongst strangers, who have defended me more strongly than my contemptible pedant could attack me ; for the other, he is only like Fungoso in the play, who follows the fashion at a distance, and adores the Fastidious Brisk of Oxford.
الصفحة 5 - If from thy hands alone my death can be, I am immortal and a god to thee. If I would kill thee now, thy fate's so low, That I must stoop ere I can give the blow : But mine is fixed so far above thy crown, That all thy men, Piled on thy back, can never pull it down : But, at my ease, thy destiny I send, By ceasing from this hour to be thy friend.
الصفحة 213 - Witness the lameness of their plots ; many of which, especially those which they writ first (for even that age refined itself in some measure), were made up of some ridiculous incoherent story, which in one play many times took up the business of an age.