The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 8A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 8 John Dryden,Walter Scott Visualização integral - 1821 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Achæans Alcm Alcmena Alph Alphonso Amph Amphitryon Antigonus Aratus arms Arth Arthur betwixt bless brave Brom Bromia Carl Carlos Cassandra CELIDEA Chor Clean Cleanthes Cleom Cleomenes Cleon Cleor Conde Crat Dalinda dare death devil Dryden Egypt Emmeline Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair fate father favour fear foes fool GARCIA give gods GRIMBALD Grip Gripus hand hear heart heaven Hengo honour hope JOHN DRYDEN Jupiter kind king King Arthur kiss lady leave live look lord lordship lover madam Merc mistress never night noble on't Oswald Panth Pantheus Phad Phæd Phædra Phil PHILIDEL play poet Ptol Ptolemy Ramirez Sancho SCENE Sosia Sosib SOSIBIUS soul Spartan speak sure sword Tegea tell thee there's thou art thou hast thought Twas Veramond Vict Victoria wife word XIMENA
Passagens conhecidas
Página 444 - Nassau to Kneller's hand decreed To fix him graceful on the bounding steed; So well in paint and stone they judg'd of merit: But kings in wit may want discerning spirit.
Página 87 - FAIR Iris I love, and hourly I die, But not for a lip, nor a languishing eye: She's fickle and false, and there we agree, For I am as false and as fickle as she.
Página 265 - Choose to sustain the smart, rather than leave her. My ravished eyes behold such charms about her, I can die with her, but not live without her ; One tender sigh of hers to see me languish, Will more than pay the price of my past anguish.
Página 401 - Her eyes, her lips, her cheeks, her shape, her features, Seem to be drawn by Love's own hand ; by Love, Himself in love...
Página 459 - His onset was violent: those passages which while they stood single had passed with little notice, when they were accumulated and exposed together, excited horror; the wise and the pious caught the alarm, and the nation wondered why it had so long suffered irreligion and licentiousness to be openly taught at the public charge.
Página 453 - The entertainment and show went forward, and most of the presenters went backward, or fell down; wine did so occupy their upper chambers.
Página 455 - JANUS. Chronos, Chronos, mend thy pace, An hundred times the rolling sun Around the radiant belt has run In his revolving race. Behold, behold, the goal in sight, Spread thy fans, and wing thy flight.
Página 12 - The labouring bee, when his sharp sting is gone, Forgets his golden work, and turns a drone : Such is a satire, when you take away That rage, in which his noble vigour lay.
Página 134 - Drum. Now they charge on amain, Now they rally again: The Gods from above the Mad Labour behold, And pity Mankind that will perish for Gold. The Fainting Saxons quit their Ground, Their Trumpets Languish in the Sound...
Página 459 - He was formed for a controvertist ; with sufficient learning ; with diction vehement and pointed, though often vulgar and incorrect : with unconquerable pertinacity ; with wit in the highest degree keen and sarcastick ; and with all those powers exalted and invigorated by just confidence in his cause.