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... AMAL . Arte . Madam , you tell me most surprising news . Amal . The fear of it , you see , Has discomposed my brother ; but to me , All , that can bring my country good , is welcome . Arte . It seems incredible , that this old king ...
... AMAL . Arte . Madam , you tell me most surprising news . Amal . The fear of it , you see , Has discomposed my brother ; but to me , All , that can bring my country good , is welcome . Arte . It seems incredible , that this old king ...
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... Amal . I'll tell you all in brief : Theagenes , Our last great king , Had , by his queen , one only son , an infant Of three years old , called , after him , Theagenes . The general , this Polydamus , then married ; The public feasts ...
... Amal . I'll tell you all in brief : Theagenes , Our last great king , Had , by his queen , one only son , an infant Of three years old , called , after him , Theagenes . The general , this Polydamus , then married ; The public feasts ...
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... Amal . What became Of her , and them , since that , was never known ; Only , some few days since , a famous robber Was taken with some jewels of vast price , Which , when they were delivered to the king , He knew had been his wife's ...
... Amal . What became Of her , and them , since that , was never known ; Only , some few days since , a famous robber Was taken with some jewels of vast price , Which , when they were delivered to the king , He knew had been his wife's ...
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... Amal . Venus Urania , if thou art a goddess , Grant that sweet youth may prove the prince of Sicily ! Poly . Tell me , old man , and tell me true , from whence Had you that youth and maid ? Her . From whence you had [ TO HERM . Your ...
... Amal . Venus Urania , if thou art a goddess , Grant that sweet youth may prove the prince of Sicily ! Poly . Tell me , old man , and tell me true , from whence Had you that youth and maid ? Her . From whence you had [ TO HERM . Your ...
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... impose his own base issue on you , And fix it to your crown . Amal . Behold his goodly shape and feature , sir ; Methinks he much resembles you . Arga . I say , if you have any issue 258 ACT I. MARRIAGE A - LA - MODE .
... impose his own base issue on you , And fix it to your crown . Amal . Behold his goodly shape and feature , sir ; Methinks he much resembles you . Arga . I say , if you have any issue 258 ACT I. MARRIAGE A - LA - MODE .
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Términos y frases comunes
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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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 10 - You have lost that which you call natural, and have not acquired the last perfection of art.
Página 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...
Página 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.