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... thought , rime is unnatural in it : that this artificiality is especially marked in speaking of common things , as in bidding a servant shut a door ; or in scenes of repartee , where the couplet is divided between two persons . But all ...
... thought , rime is unnatural in it : that this artificiality is especially marked in speaking of common things , as in bidding a servant shut a door ; or in scenes of repartee , where the couplet is divided between two persons . But all ...
Page xxx
... thought . To enjoy the Morte d'Arthur , we cast off the shackles of our grown - up common sense , and fancy ourselves once more among knights and fairies , magic swords and enchanted castles . To relish The Way of the World , we must ...
... thought . To enjoy the Morte d'Arthur , we cast off the shackles of our grown - up common sense , and fancy ourselves once more among knights and fairies , magic swords and enchanted castles . To relish The Way of the World , we must ...
Page xxxvii
... thoughts , or a thought go up in smoke ; he may as well say , he will roast or bake thoughts , as smoke them . " That Dryden felt such raillery to be beneath his dignity is clear from the anonymity of the scurrilous pamphlet . But the ...
... thoughts , or a thought go up in smoke ; he may as well say , he will roast or bake thoughts , as smoke them . " That Dryden felt such raillery to be beneath his dignity is clear from the anonymity of the scurrilous pamphlet . But the ...
Page xli
... thought myself very fit for an employment , where many of my predecessors have excell'd me in all kinds ; and some of my contemporaries , even in my own partial judgment , have outdone me in comedy . Some little hopes I have that I may ...
... thought myself very fit for an employment , where many of my predecessors have excell'd me in all kinds ; and some of my contemporaries , even in my own partial judgment , have outdone me in comedy . Some little hopes I have that I may ...
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... thought , dividing the interest of the play : " I had not enough consider'd , that the compassion she mov'd to ... thoughts . " This gives a central unity to a superficially irregular drama . In Dryden , Antony is already lost at the ...
... thought , dividing the interest of the play : " I had not enough consider'd , that the compassion she mov'd to ... thoughts . " This gives a central unity to a superficially irregular drama . In Dryden , Antony is already lost at the ...
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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...