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Even down to the eighteenth century, the portrait of every soldier of rank was
attired in complete armour, though, perhaps, he never saw a suit of mail
excepting in the Tower of London ; and on the same principle of prescriptive
custom, ...
Even down to the eighteenth century, the portrait of every soldier of rank was
attired in complete armour, though, perhaps, he never saw a suit of mail
excepting in the Tower of London ; and on the same principle of prescriptive
custom, ...
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The reader, or spectator, is never allowed to repose on the scene before him ;
and although the changes of fortune arc too rapid to be either probable, or
altogether pleasing, yet they arrest the attention by their splendour and
importance, and ...
The reader, or spectator, is never allowed to repose on the scene before him ;
and although the changes of fortune arc too rapid to be either probable, or
altogether pleasing, yet they arrest the attention by their splendour and
importance, and ...
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... left not the most impudent among them the least pretence for a false bonfire, or
a dissembled day of public thanksgiving. All our achievements against them
afterwards, though we sometimes conquered, and were never overcome, were
but a ...
... left not the most impudent among them the least pretence for a false bonfire, or
a dissembled day of public thanksgiving. All our achievements against them
afterwards, though we sometimes conquered, and were never overcome, were
but a ...
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reputation ; it was occasion only has been wanting to your courage, for that can
never be wanting to occasion. The same ardour still incites you to he- roick
actions, and the same concernment for all the interests of your king and brother ...
reputation ; it was occasion only has been wanting to your courage, for that can
never be wanting to occasion. The same ardour still incites you to he- roick
actions, and the same concernment for all the interests of your king and brother ...
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I have formed a hero, I confess, not absolutely perfect, but of an excessive and
over-boiling courage ; but Homer and Tasso are my precedents. Both the Greek
and the Italian poet had well considered, that a tame hero, who never
transgresses ...
I have formed a hero, I confess, not absolutely perfect, but of an excessive and
over-boiling courage ; but Homer and Tasso are my precedents. Both the Greek
and the Italian poet had well considered, that a tame hero, who never
transgresses ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Abdal Abdalla Abdelm Abdelmelech Aben ABENAMAR Abencerrages Almah Almahide Almanz Almanzor Amal Amalthea Arcos Arga Asca Ascanio Aurelian beauty Benito Benz Benzayda betwixt Boab brave Camillo command confess Conquest of Granada court crown dare dear death Doralice Dryden Duke Duke of ARCOS Duke of Mantua Enter Eubulus Exeunt Exit fate father favour fear fortune Fred give Granada Guards HAMET hand happy haste hear heart heaven honour hope king lady Laura leave Leon Leonidas live look lover Lucretia Lyndar Lyndaraxa madam MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE married Melantha methinks mistress never night Ozmyn Pala Palamede Palm Palmyra pity play poet Poly prince queen revenge Rhodophil SCENE Selin shew soul speak stay sure sword tell thee there's thing thou art thought twas Violetta virtue wife words Zegrys ZULEMA
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Página 40 - 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 113 - 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 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.
Página 227 - 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 222 - 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 215 - 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 59 - ... 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 16 - You have lost that which you call natural, and have not acquired the last perfection of art.
Página 234 - ... 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 120 - 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, Sir Walter Scott |
| Editor | W. Miller, 1808 |
| Procedencia del original | la Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York |
| Digitalizado | 3 Nov 2006 |
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