The Works of John Dryden: Dramatic worksPaterson, 1883 - English literature |
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... seems to have been a favourite with Dryden , as well as with the public . In the Essay upon Heroic Plays , as well as in the dedication , the character of Almanzor is dwelt upon with that degree of complacency which an author ...
... seems to have been a favourite with Dryden , as well as with the public . In the Essay upon Heroic Plays , as well as in the dedication , the character of Almanzor is dwelt upon with that degree of complacency which an author ...
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... seems to be , that Almanzor is in a passion . But , although talking nonsense is a common effect of passion , it seems hardly one of those consequences adapted to show forth the character of a hero in theatrical representation . It must ...
... seems to be , that Almanzor is in a passion . But , although talking nonsense is a common effect of passion , it seems hardly one of those consequences adapted to show forth the character of a hero in theatrical representation . It must ...
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... seems to have been the chief source from which our author drew his plot . In the conduct of the story there is much brilliancy of event . The reader , or spectator , is never allowed to repose on the scene before him ; and although the ...
... seems to have been the chief source from which our author drew his plot . In the conduct of the story there is much brilliancy of event . The reader , or spectator , is never allowed to repose on the scene before him ; and although the ...
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... seems worth while to reproduce ( as I am enabled to do by the kindness of Messrs . Macmillan ) the sketch of the plot and incidents given in my Dryden ( English Men of Letters ) pp . 46-51 : - " The kingdom of Granada under its last ...
... seems worth while to reproduce ( as I am enabled to do by the kindness of Messrs . Macmillan ) the sketch of the plot and incidents given in my Dryden ( English Men of Letters ) pp . 46-51 : - " The kingdom of Granada under its last ...
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... seems to have sunk with his good fortune , there is no reason to question his having merited the compliment in the text . The Duke of Buckingham , in his memoirs , has borne witness to the intrepidity with which he encountered the ...
... seems to have sunk with his good fortune , there is no reason to question his having merited the compliment in the text . The Duke of Buckingham , in his memoirs , has borne witness to the intrepidity with which he encountered the ...
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Abdal ABDALLA Abdelm ABDELMELECH Aben ABENAMAR Abencerrages Almah Almahide Almanz Almanzor Amal Amalthea Arga ARGALEON Asca ASCANIO Aurelian beauty Ben Jonson Benito Benz Benzayda betwixt Boab BOABDELIN brave brother Camillo command confess Conquest of Granada court crown dare dear death DORALICE Dryden Duke of ARCOS Enter Eubulus Exeunt Exit fate father favour fear fight fortune Fred give Granada Guards HAMET hand happy haste hear heart heaven HIPPOLITA honour hope JOHN DRYDEN king lady Laura leave Leon Leonidas live look lovers Lucretia Lyndar LYNDARAXA madam married MELANTHA mistress never Ozmyn Pala Palamede Palm Palmyra pity play poet Poly POLYDAMAS prince queen revenge Rhodophil SCENE Selin soul speak stay sword tell thee there's thou art thought twas VIOLETTA virtue wife woman words Zegrys ZULEMA
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Page 43 - But know, that I alone am king of me. I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Page 262 - Twas pleasure first made it an oath. If I have pleasures for a friend, And further love in store, What wrong has he whose joys did end, And who could give no more ? 'Tis a madness that he should be jealous of me, Or that I should bar him of another: For all we can gain, is to give ourselves pain, When neither can hinder the other.
Page 249 - 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.
Page 329 - The youth, though in haste, And breathing his last, In pity died slowly, while she died more fast; Till at length she cried, — Now, my dear, now let us go ; Now die, my Alexis, and I will die too ! IV.
Page 228 - ... 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.
Page 4 - No, there is a necessity in Fate, Why still the brave bold man is fortunate; He keeps his object ever full in sight, And that assurance holds him firm and right, True, 'tis a narrow way that leads to bliss, \ But right before there is no precipice; ) Fear makes men look aside, and so their footing miss.
Page 77 - Poor Robin, or any other of the philo-mathematicks, would have given him satisfaction in the point: " If I could kill thee now, thy fate's so low, That I must stoop, ere I can give the blow. But mine is fixt so far above thy crown, That all thy men, Piled on thy back, can never pull it down.
Page 3 - 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.
Page 174 - Fair though you are As summer mornings, and your eyes more bright Than stars that twinkle in a winter's night; Though you have eloquence to warm and move Cold age and praying hermits, into love ; Though Almahide with scorn rewards my care,— Yet, than to change, 'tis nobler to despair. My love's my soul ; and that from fate is free; 'Tis that unchanged and deathless part of me.
Page 121 - Our author fears those critics as his fate ; And those he fears by consequence must hate, For they the traffic of all wit invade, As scriveners draw away the bankers