The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...W. Miller, 1808 - English literature |
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... turning the tide of battle as he lists , did not appear so shocking in the age of Dryden , as in ours . There is no doubt , that , while personal strength and prow- ess were of more consequence than military skill and conduct , the ...
... turning the tide of battle as he lists , did not appear so shocking in the age of Dryden , as in ours . There is no doubt , that , while personal strength and prow- ess were of more consequence than military skill and conduct , the ...
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... turn his thoughts another way , and to introduce the examples of moral virtue , writ in verse , and performed in recitative music . original of this music , and of the scenes which adorned his work , he had from the Italian operas ; but ...
... turn his thoughts another way , and to introduce the examples of moral virtue , writ in verse , and performed in recitative music . original of this music , and of the scenes which adorned his work , he had from the Italian operas ; but ...
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... turn him with each blast of wind : But now , he shall not veer ! my word is past ; I'll take his heart by the roots , and hold it fast . Abdal . You have your vengeance in your hand this hour ; Make me the humble creature of your power ...
... turn him with each blast of wind : But now , he shall not veer ! my word is past ; I'll take his heart by the roots , and hold it fast . Abdal . You have your vengeance in your hand this hour ; Make me the humble creature of your power ...
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... turn back , before it be too late . Behold in me the example of your fate : you do : I am your sea - mark ; and , though wrecked and lost , My ruins stand to warn you from the coast . Abdal . Your counsels , noble Abdelmelech , move My ...
... turn back , before it be too late . Behold in me the example of your fate : you do : I am your sea - mark ; and , though wrecked and lost , My ruins stand to warn you from the coast . Abdal . Your counsels , noble Abdelmelech , move My ...
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... Of dogs and swine ; yet , though their fate I know , I look with pleasure , and am turning too . [ LYNDARAXA passes over the Stage . Abdelm . Fly , fly , before the allurements of SCENE I. 57 * THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA .
... Of dogs and swine ; yet , though their fate I know , I look with pleasure , and am turning too . [ LYNDARAXA passes over the Stage . Abdelm . Fly , fly , before the allurements of SCENE I. 57 * THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA .
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Abdal ABDALLA Abdelm ABDELMELECH Aben ABENAMAR Abencerrages Almah Almahide Almanz Almanzor Amal Amalthea Arcos Arga ARGALEON Asca ASCANIO Aurelian beauty Ben Jonson Benito Benz Benzayda betwixt Boab brave CAMILLO command Conquest of Granada court crown dare dear death DORALICE Dryden Duke Duke of ARCOS Enter Eubulus Exeunt Exit fate father favour fear fight fortune Fred give Guards HAMET hand happy haste hear heart heaven HERMOGENES honour hope JOHN DRYDEN king lady Laura leave Leon Leonidas live look lovers Lucretia Lyndar LYNDARAXA madam MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE married MELANTHA mistress never night Ozmyn Pala Palamede Palm Palmyra pity play poet Poly prince queen revenge Rhodophil SCENE Selin shew soul speak stay sword tell thee there's thing thou art thought twas VIOLETTA virtue wife words Zegrys ZULEMA
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Page 34 - 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 107 - As scriv'ners draw away the bankers' trade. Howe'er, the poet 's safe enough to-day, They cannot censure an unfinish'd play. But, as when vizard-mask appears in pit, Straight every man who thinks himself a wit Perks up, and, managing his comb with grace, With his white wig sets off his nut-brown face...
Page 221 - The desire of imitating so great a pattern, first awakened the dull and heavy spirits of the English from their natural reservedness ; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation ; and made them easy and pliant to each other in discourse.
Page 216 - He is the very Janus of poets ; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.
Page 209 - Witness the lameness of their plots ; many of which, especially those which they writ first (for even that age refined itself in some measure), were made up of some ridiculous incoherent story, which in one play many times took up the business of an age.
Page 53 - ... less." In return for such proofs of tenderness as these, her admirer consents to murder his two sons and a benefactor to whom he feels the warmest gratitude. Lyndaraxa, in the Conquest of Granada, assumes the same lofty tone with Abdelmelech.
Page 10 - You have lost that which you call natural, and have not acquired the last perfection of art.
Page 228 - ... the ground, as if she were sinking under the conscious load of her own attractions ; then launches into a flood of fine language and compliment, still playing her chest forward in fifty falls and risings, like a swan upon waving water ; and, to complete her impertinence, she is so rapidly fond of her own wit, that she will not give her lover leave to praise it : silent, assenting bows, and vain endeavours to speak, are all the share of the conversation he is admitted to, which, at last, he is...
Page 114 - Love's an heroic passion, which can find No room in any base degenerate mind : It kindles all the soul with honour's fire, To make the lover worthy his desire.