The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...W. Miller, 1808 |
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... person . It is true , that the military art had been changed in this particular long before the days of Dryden . Complete armour was generally laid aside ; fire - arms had superse- ded the use of the lance and battle - axe ; and , above ...
... person . It is true , that the military art had been changed in this particular long before the days of Dryden . Complete armour was generally laid aside ; fire - arms had superse- ded the use of the lance and battle - axe ; and , above ...
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... persons , whose characters have , for the most part , been the guides and pat- terns of their imitation ; and poets , while they imitate , instruct . The feigned hero inflames the true ; and the dead virtue animates the living . Since ...
... persons , whose characters have , for the most part , been the guides and pat- terns of their imitation ; and poets , while they imitate , instruct . The feigned hero inflames the true ; and the dead virtue animates the living . Since ...
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... persons are eminent the characters which Ho- mer has given us of heroick virtue ; the command- ing part in Agamemnon , and the executive in Ach- illes . And I doubt not from both your actions , but to have abundant matter to fill the ...
... persons are eminent the characters which Ho- mer has given us of heroick virtue ; the command- ing part in Agamemnon , and the executive in Ach- illes . And I doubt not from both your actions , but to have abundant matter to fill the ...
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... person is AI- manzor , whom I present , with all humility , to the patronage of your royal highness . I designed in him a roughness of character , impatient of injuries , and a confidence of himself , almost approaching to an arrogance ...
... person is AI- manzor , whom I present , with all humility , to the patronage of your royal highness . I designed in him a roughness of character , impatient of injuries , and a confidence of himself , almost approaching to an arrogance ...
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... persons , nor beautified with characters , nor varied with accidents . The laws of an heroic poem did not dispense with those of the other , but raised them to a greater height , and in- dulged him a farther liberty of fancy , and of ...
... persons , nor beautified with characters , nor varied with accidents . The laws of an heroic poem did not dispense with those of the other , but raised them to a greater height , and in- dulged him a farther liberty of fancy , and of ...
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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.