The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volumen 4A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... fighting men . These monstrous fictions , however , constituted the amusement of the young and the gay , in the age of Charles II . , and from one of these very books Dry- den admits his having drawn , at least in part , the character ...
... fighting men . These monstrous fictions , however , constituted the amusement of the young and the gay , in the age of Charles II . , and from one of these very books Dry- den admits his having drawn , at least in part , the character ...
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... fighting warriors with their smiles , and counteract the powerful charms of the Moorish damsels . Nor is it an inferior fault , that , although the characters are called Moors , there is scarce any expression , or al- lusion , which can ...
... fighting warriors with their smiles , and counteract the powerful charms of the Moorish damsels . Nor is it an inferior fault , that , although the characters are called Moors , there is scarce any expression , or al- lusion , which can ...
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... fighting armies . But , I add far- ther , that these warlike instruments , and even their presentations of fighting on the stage , are no more than necessary to produce the effects of an heroic play ; that is , to raise the imagination ...
... fighting armies . But , I add far- ther , that these warlike instruments , and even their presentations of fighting on the stage , are no more than necessary to produce the effects of an heroic play ; that is , to raise the imagination ...
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... fight no more . Agamemnon gives his character thus to Nestor ; ̓Αλλ ' ὁδ ̓ ἀνὴρ ἐθέλει περὶ πάντων ἔμμεναι ἄλλων , Πάντων μεν κρατέειν ἐθέλει , πάντεσσι δ ̓ ἀνάσσειν . Il . a . v . 287 , 288 . And Horace gives the same description of ...
... fight no more . Agamemnon gives his character thus to Nestor ; ̓Αλλ ' ὁδ ̓ ἀνὴρ ἐθέλει περὶ πάντων ἔμμεναι ἄλλων , Πάντων μεν κρατέειν ἐθέλει , πάντεσσι δ ̓ ἀνάσσειν . Il . a . v . 287 , 288 . And Horace gives the same description of ...
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... fighting factions , when the authority of their lawful sovereign could not . This is indeed the most improbable of all his actions , but it is far from being impossible . Their king had made himself contemptible to his people , as the ...
... fighting factions , when the authority of their lawful sovereign could not . This is indeed the most improbable of all his actions , but it is far from being impossible . Their king had made himself contemptible to his people , as the ...
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Página 211 - ... either in rejecting such old words, or phrases, which are ill sounding, or improper; or in admitting new, which are more proper, more sounding, and more significant.
Página 61 - Beneath a myrtle shade. Which love for none but happy lovers made, I slept ; and straight my love before me brought Phyllis, the object of my waking thought. Undressed she came my flames to meet, While love strewed flowers beneath her feet ; Flowers which, so pressed by her, became more sweet.
Página 225 - ... 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. Thus, insensibly, our way of living became more free ; and the fire of the English wit, which...
Página 40 - 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 116 - A watchful fate o'ersees its tender years: Till, grown more strong, it thrusts and stretches out, And elbows all the kingdoms round about: The place thus made for its first breathing free, It moves again for ease and luxury; Till, swelling by degrees, it has...
Página 62 - A careless veil of lawn was loosely spread: From her white temples fell her shaded hair, Like cloudy sunshine not too brown nor fair: Her hands, her lips did love inspire; Her ev'ry grace my heart did fire : But most her eyes which languish'd with desire.
Página 66 - Tis he ; I feel him now in every part : Like a new lord he vaunts about my heart; Surveys, in state, each corner of my breast, While poor fierce I, that was, am dispossessed...
Página 353 - ... in my own defence, neither will I gratify the ambition of two wretched scribblers, who desire nothing more than to be answered. I have not wanted friends, even amongst strangers, who have defended me more strongly than my contemptible pedant could attack me ; for the other, he is only like Fungoso in the play, who follows the fashion at a distance, and adores the Fastidious Brisk of Oxford.
Página 5 - If from thy hands alone my death can be, I am immortal and a god to thee. If I would kill thee now, thy fate's so low, That I must stoop ere I can give the blow : But mine is fixed so far above thy crown, That all thy men, Piled on thy back, can never pull it down : But, at my ease, thy destiny I send, By ceasing from this hour to be thy friend.
Página 213 - 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.