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... sense , " in all forms of art . Other rules , having no basis whatever in classical authority , were added to them . Thus , by the rule of la liaison des scènes , the stage must never be left vacant during the course of an act ; each ...
... sense , " in all forms of art . Other rules , having no basis whatever in classical authority , were added to them . Thus , by the rule of la liaison des scènes , the stage must never be left vacant during the course of an act ; each ...
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... sense , sometimes . and also in The Rival Ladies , act III , sc . i ( Ss . ii . 178 ) : -Desire them They would leave out the word , and fall to dancing . The poetry of the foot takes most of late . These quotations illustrate the ...
... sense , sometimes . and also in The Rival Ladies , act III , sc . i ( Ss . ii . 178 ) : -Desire them They would leave out the word , and fall to dancing . The poetry of the foot takes most of late . These quotations illustrate the ...
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... for example , as Hamlet and other tragedies of Shakspere . He seems never to use the word in the sense defined by Fletcher in his preface to The Faithful Shep- 1 In regard to the decorum of the stage , Dryden xxii INTRODUCTION.
... for example , as Hamlet and other tragedies of Shakspere . He seems never to use the word in the sense defined by Fletcher in his preface to The Faithful Shep- 1 In regard to the decorum of the stage , Dryden xxii INTRODUCTION.
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... sense unity of action is preserved . " Integrity of scenes , " though not strictly observed , is not lost from sight . But the spirit of Dryden's hurried , complicated action , with its frequent reversals of fortune , its drums and ...
... sense unity of action is preserved . " Integrity of scenes , " though not strictly observed , is not lost from sight . But the spirit of Dryden's hurried , complicated action , with its frequent reversals of fortune , its drums and ...
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... sense of the term . Indeed Dryden does not often style them such in his critical essays , and the name is by no means universal on the title - pages of early editions . ( Dryden's dictum , " that an heroic play ought to be an imitation ...
... sense of the term . Indeed Dryden does not often style them such in his critical essays , and the name is by no means universal on the title - pages of early editions . ( Dryden's dictum , " that an heroic play ought to be an imitation ...
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Abdal Abdelm ABDELMELECH Aben Absalom and Achitophel Alex Almah Almahide Almanz Almanzor Alph Amalthea Antony Arcos Aureng-Zebe Bayes Ben Jonson Benz Benzayda Boab Cæsar Catiline Cleo Cleopatra comedy Conquest of Granada court crown dare death Dola DORALICE drama Dryden edition English Enter ev'n Exeunt Exit eyes fate father fear fortune French friar give HAMET haste hear heart heav'n heroic plays honor i'gad John Dryden Johns king lady Leon live lord lov'd Lyndar LYNDARAXA madam Melantha mistress never Ozmyn Pala Palamede Palmyra pity plot poet Poly pow'r pray prince queen Raym Rehearsal Rhodophil scene Selin Shakspere Siege of Rhodes soul speak sword tell thee there's thought Torrismond tragedy Twas Vent Ventidius virtue wife word ZULEMA
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Page 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.
Page 237 - Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...