The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 5A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... reason , what the historian said of a Roman emperor , " Multi diutius imperium tenuerunt ! nemo fortius reliquit . " To this retirement of your lordship , I wish I could bring a better entertainment than this play ; which , though it ...
... reason , what the historian said of a Roman emperor , " Multi diutius imperium tenuerunt ! nemo fortius reliquit . " To this retirement of your lordship , I wish I could bring a better entertainment than this play ; which , though it ...
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... reason , Towerson , to be sad ; you are the happy man . Tow . If I have any , you must needs have some . Har . Jun . No , you are loved , and I am bid despair . Tow . Time and your services will perhaps make you as happy , as I am in my ...
... reason , Towerson , to be sad ; you are the happy man . Tow . If I have any , you must needs have some . Har . Jun . No , you are loved , and I am bid despair . Tow . Time and your services will perhaps make you as happy , as I am in my ...
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... reasons than a young man's passion ; but who shall do it ? No Englishman will , and much I fear , no Dutch- man dares attempt it . Enter PEREZ . Well said , in faith , old Devil ! Let thee alone , when once a man is plotting villany ...
... reasons than a young man's passion ; but who shall do it ? No Englishman will , and much I fear , no Dutch- man dares attempt it . Enter PEREZ . Well said , in faith , old Devil ! Let thee alone , when once a man is plotting villany ...
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... reason , if our interest requires it . Beam . That leads me to your religion , which is only made up of interest : At home , you tolerate all worships in them who can pay for it ; and abroad , you were lately so civil to the emperor of ...
... reason , if our interest requires it . Beam . That leads me to your religion , which is only made up of interest : At home , you tolerate all worships in them who can pay for it ; and abroad , you were lately so civil to the emperor of ...
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... reasons , why I must refuse the honour you intend me . Har . Sen. You must have none : What ! my old friend steal a ... reason of refusal , but it must not prevail : My son has been to blame ' ; I'll not maintain him in the least ne ...
... reasons , why I must refuse the honour you intend me . Har . Sen. You must have none : What ! my old friend steal a ... reason of refusal , but it must not prevail : My son has been to blame ' ; I'll not maintain him in the least ne ...
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Page 291 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them...
Page 321 - Errors like Straws upon the surface flow; He who would search for Pearls must dive below.
Page 292 - A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange, invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her ; and Antony, Enthroned in the market-place, did sit alone, Whistling to the air ; which, but for vacancy, Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too, And made a gap in nature.
Page 331 - Lie there, thou shadow of an emperor; The place thou pressest on thy mother earth Is all thy empire now: now it contains thee; Some few days hence, and then 'twill be too large, When thou'rt contracted in thy narrow urn, Shrunk to a few cold ashes; then Octavia (For Cleopatra will not live to see it), Octavia then will have...
Page 188 - Let him retire, betwixt two ages cast, The first of this, and hindmost of the last. A losing gamester, let him sneak away ; He bears no ready money from the play. The fate, which governs poets, thought it fit 55 He should not raise his fortunes by his wit.
Page 332 - Sure there's contagion in the tears of friends • See, I have caught it too. Believe me, 'tis not For my own griefs, but thine.
Page 312 - If a little glittering in discourse has passed them on us for witty men, where was the necessity of undeceiving the world ? Would a man who has an ill title to an estate, but yet is in possession of it, would he bring it of his own accord to be tried at Westminster?
Page 240 - DISTRUST, and darkness of a future state, Make poor mankind so fearful of their fate. Death, in itself, is nothing ; but we fear, To be we know not what, we know not where.
Page 241 - tis all a cheat ; Yet, fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Page 307 - Particularly, the action is so much one that it is the only of the kind without episode or underplot; every scene in the tragedy conducing to the main design, and every act concluding with a turn of it.