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... fate it was to defeat the Spaniards , and force Dunkirk to surrender . Yet , those victorious forces of the rebels were not able to sustain your arms . Where you charged in per- son , you were a conqueror . It is true , they after ...
... fate it was to defeat the Spaniards , and force Dunkirk to surrender . Yet , those victorious forces of the rebels were not able to sustain your arms . Where you charged in per- son , you were a conqueror . It is true , they after ...
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... fate Is damned dull farce more dully to translate , Fall under that excise the state thinks fit To set on all French wares , whose worst is wit . French farce , worn out at home , is sent abroad ; And , patched up here , is made our ...
... fate Is damned dull farce more dully to translate , Fall under that excise the state thinks fit To set on all French wares , whose worst is wit . French farce , worn out at home , is sent abroad ; And , patched up here , is made our ...
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... fate he led ; The vanquished triumphed , and the victor fled . Vast is his courage , boundless is his mind , Rough as a storm , and humorous as wind : Honour's the only idol of his eyes ; The charms of beauty like a pest he flies ...
... fate he led ; The vanquished triumphed , and the victor fled . Vast is his courage , boundless is his mind , Rough as a storm , and humorous as wind : Honour's the only idol of his eyes ; The charms of beauty like a pest he flies ...
Page 46
... view , Or polish them so fast as he rough - drew . Abdal . Fate , after him , below with pain did move , And victory could scarce keep pace above : Death did at length so many slain forget , And 46 ACT II . THE FIRST PART OF.
... view , Or polish them so fast as he rough - drew . Abdal . Fate , after him , below with pain did move , And victory could scarce keep pace above : Death did at length so many slain forget , And 46 ACT II . THE FIRST PART OF.
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... fate so pleased , I had been eldest born , And then , without a crime , the crown had worn ! - Zul . Would you so please , fate yet a way would find ; Man makes his fate according to his mind . The weak low spirit , fortune makes her ...
... fate so pleased , I had been eldest born , And then , without a crime , the crown had worn ! - Zul . Would you so please , fate yet a way would find ; Man makes his fate according to his mind . The weak low spirit , fortune makes her ...
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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.