The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...W. Miller, 1808 |
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Página 49
... heart you ask or hope for more , I grieve the place is taken up before . Abdal . My rival merits you.- To Abdelmelech I will justice do ; For he wants worth , who dares not praise a foe . Lyndar . That for his virtue , sir , you make ...
... heart you ask or hope for more , I grieve the place is taken up before . Abdal . My rival merits you.- To Abdelmelech I will justice do ; For he wants worth , who dares not praise a foe . Lyndar . That for his virtue , sir , you make ...
Página 51
... heart . For such another pleasure , did he live , I could my father of a crown deprive .--- What did I say ? — Father ! That impious thought has shocked my mind : How bold our passions are , and yet how blind ! — She's gone ; and now ...
... heart . For such another pleasure , did he live , I could my father of a crown deprive .--- What did I say ? — Father ! That impious thought has shocked my mind : How bold our passions are , and yet how blind ! — She's gone ; and now ...
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... 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 : The Granadines will gladly me obey ; ( Tired with so base and impotent a sway ) And , when I ...
... 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 : The Granadines will gladly me obey ; ( Tired with so base and impotent a sway ) And , when I ...
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... hearts lie panting in her hand . Abdelm . This do you know , and tempt the dan- ger still ? Abdal . Love , like a lethargy , has seized my will . I'm not myself , since from her sight I went ; I lean my trunk that way , and there stand ...
... hearts lie panting in her hand . Abdelm . This do you know , and tempt the dan- ger still ? Abdal . Love , like a lethargy , has seized my will . I'm not myself , since from her sight I went ; I lean my trunk that way , and there stand ...
Página 58
... heart . Abdelm . In giving but that look , you give what's mine : I'll not one corner of a glance resign . All's mine ; and I am covetous of my store : I have not love enough , I'll tax you more . Lyndar . I gave not love ; ' twas but ...
... heart . Abdelm . In giving but that look , you give what's mine : I'll not one corner of a glance resign . All's mine ; and I am covetous of my store : I have not love enough , I'll tax you more . Lyndar . I gave not love ; ' twas but ...
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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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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.