The Works of John Dryden: Dramatic worksW. Paterson, 1883 |
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... court poring over a work of five or six folio volumes by way of amusement ; but such was the taste of the age , that Fynes Morison , in his precepts to travellers , can " think no book better for his pupils ' dis- course than Amadis of ...
... court poring over a work of five or six folio volumes by way of amusement ; but such was the taste of the age , that Fynes Morison , in his precepts to travellers , can " think no book better for his pupils ' dis- course than Amadis of ...
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... court are listening and looking , mischief is brewing . Almanzor , Abdalla , and the The king is driven in ; Almahide is Zegrys are in arms . captured . Then a scene takes places between Almanzor and Almahide in the full spirit of the ...
... court are listening and looking , mischief is brewing . Almanzor , Abdalla , and the The king is driven in ; Almahide is Zegrys are in arms . captured . Then a scene takes places between Almanzor and Almahide in the full spirit of the ...
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... court ; And who , henceforth , to our defence will come , If death must be the brave Almanzor's doom ? From Africa I drew him to your aid , And for his succour have his life betrayed . Boab . Is this the Almanzor whom at Fez knew , you ...
... court ; And who , henceforth , to our defence will come , If death must be the brave Almanzor's doom ? From Africa I drew him to your aid , And for his succour have his life betrayed . Boab . Is this the Almanzor whom at Fez knew , you ...
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... court , But with a discomposed and speedy pace , A fiery colour kindling all his face : The king his prisoner's freedom has denied , And that refusal has provoked his pride . Abdal . Would he were ours ! - I'll try to gild the injustice ...
... court , But with a discomposed and speedy pace , A fiery colour kindling all his face : The king his prisoner's freedom has denied , And that refusal has provoked his pride . Abdal . Would he were ours ! - I'll try to gild the injustice ...
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... court in its delight . Almanz . For you to will , for me ' tis to obey : But I would give a crown in open day ; And , when the Spaniards their assault begin , At once beat those without , and these within . [ Exit ALMANZ . Enter ...
... court in its delight . Almanz . For you to will , for me ' tis to obey : But I would give a crown in open day ; And , when the Spaniards their assault begin , At once beat those without , and these within . [ Exit ALMANZ . Enter ...
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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 47 - 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 266 - 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 253 - 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 128 - 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...
Page 141 - I'll like Almanzor act ; and dare to be As haughty, and as wretched too, as he. What will he think is in my message meant ? I scarcely understand my own intent : But, silkworm-like, so long within have wrought, That I am lost in my own web of thought.
Page 14 - Forgiveness to the injured does belong ; But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.
Page 158 - Your flame's too noble to deserve a cheat, And I too plain to practise a deceit. I no return of love can ever make, But what I ask is for my husband's sake; He, I confess, has been ungrateful too, But he and I are ruined if you go; Your virtue to the hardest proof I bring; Unbribed, preserve a mistress and a king.
Page 71 - Rather than lose the spotless name of maid!" Faintly, methought, she spoke; for all the while She bid me not believe her, with a smile. "Then die," said I : she still denied ; "And is it thus, thus, thus," she cried, "You use a harmless maid?
Page 232 - ... 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 265 - Till our love was loved out in us both: But our marriage is dead, when the pleasure is fled: 'Twas pleasure first made it an oath.