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... extraneous object of · their pursuit , or admiration . Thus , the burst of Hotspur
concerning the pursuit of honour paints his enthusiastic character ; but it would
be hard to point out a passage indicating that exuberant confidence in his own ...
... extraneous object of · their pursuit , or admiration . Thus , the burst of Hotspur
concerning the pursuit of honour paints his enthusiastic character ; but it would
be hard to point out a passage indicating that exuberant confidence in his own ...
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Indeed , so essentially necessary are the encouragements of beauty to military
achievement , that we find queen Isabella ordering to the field of battle a corps de
reserve of her maids of honour , to animate the fighting warriors with their smiles
...
Indeed , so essentially necessary are the encouragements of beauty to military
achievement , that we find queen Isabella ordering to the field of battle a corps de
reserve of her maids of honour , to animate the fighting warriors with their smiles
...
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You were then an honour to it , when it was a reproach to itself. * Although the
valour of the unfortunate James II . seems to have sunk with his good fortune ,
there is no reason to question his having merited the compliment in the text .
You were then an honour to it , when it was a reproach to itself. * Although the
valour of the unfortunate James II . seems to have sunk with his good fortune ,
there is no reason to question his having merited the compliment in the text .
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Then it was , that at the cost of other nations you informed and cultivated that
valour , which was to defend your native country , and to vindicate its honour from
the insolence of our encroaching neighbours . When the Hollanders , not
contented ...
Then it was , that at the cost of other nations you informed and cultivated that
valour , which was to defend your native country , and to vindicate its honour from
the insolence of our encroaching neighbours . When the Hollanders , not
contented ...
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... the title of so absolute a defeat ; or perhaps the guardian angel of our nation
was not enough concerned when you were absent , and would not employ his
utmost vigour for a less important stake , than the life and honour of a royal
admiral .
... the title of so absolute a defeat ; or perhaps the guardian angel of our nation
was not enough concerned when you were absent , and would not employ his
utmost vigour for a less important stake , than the life and honour of a royal
admiral .
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Página 38 - 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 111 - 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 3 - 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.
Página 225 - 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 220 - 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 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.
Página 57 - ... 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 14 - You have lost that which you call natural, and have not acquired the last perfection of art.
Página 232 - ... 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 118 - 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.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ... Volumen 4 de The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected, John Dryden |
| Autores | John Dryden, Walter Scott |
| Editor | W. Miller, 1808 |
| Procedencia del original | la Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York |
| Digitalizado | 3 Nov 2006 |
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