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Página 79
All I desire , to end the unlucky strife , Is but a vow , that you will be my wife .
Lyndar . To tie me to you by a vow is hard ; It shows , my love you as no tie regard
.Name any thing but that , and I ' ll agree . Abdelm . Swear , then , you never will
my ...
All I desire , to end the unlucky strife , Is but a vow , that you will be my wife .
Lyndar . To tie me to you by a vow is hard ; It shows , my love you as no tie regard
.Name any thing but that , and I ' ll agree . Abdelm . Swear , then , you never will
my ...
Página 96
Had I beheld him basely beg his life , I should not now submit to be his wife ; But
when I saw his courage death controul , I paid a secret homage to his soul ; And
thought my cruel father much to blame , Since Ozmyn ' s virtue his revenge did ...
Had I beheld him basely beg his life , I should not now submit to be his wife ; But
when I saw his courage death controul , I paid a secret homage to his soul ; And
thought my cruel father much to blame , Since Ozmyn ' s virtue his revenge did ...
Página 104
Yet , since the king did to Almanzor swear , And in his death ungrateful may
appear , He ought , in justice , first to spare his life , And then to claim your
promise as his wife . Almah . Whate ' er my secret inclinations be , , To this , since
honour ...
Yet , since the king did to Almanzor swear , And in his death ungrateful may
appear , He ought , in justice , first to spare his life , And then to claim your
promise as his wife . Almah . Whate ' er my secret inclinations be , , To this , since
honour ...
Página 105
The king ( who doomed you to a cruel fate ) Gave to my prayers both his revenge
and hate ; But at no other price would rate your life , Thian my consent and oath
to be his wife . Alman : . Would you , to save my life SCENE II . 105 THE ...
The king ( who doomed you to a cruel fate ) Gave to my prayers both his revenge
and hate ; But at no other price would rate your life , Thian my consent and oath
to be his wife . Alman : . Would you , to save my life SCENE II . 105 THE ...
Página 121
... The needy creep from cellars under ground ; To them new cries from tops of
garrets sound ; The aged from the chimneys seek the cold ; . And wives from
windows helpless infants hold . Boab . See what the many - headed beast
demands .
... The needy creep from cellars under ground ; To them new cries from tops of
garrets sound ; The aged from the chimneys seek the cold ; . And wives from
windows helpless infants hold . Boab . See what the many - headed beast
demands .
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Términos y frases comunes
Abdal Abdelm Aben Almah Almanz Almanzor appear arms beauty believe Benito Benz better Boab bring cause command court crown dare dear death desire Duke Enter Exeunt Exit eyes face fair fall fate father fear fight force fortune Fred give Guards hand happy haste hear heart heaven hold honour hope hour I'll keep kind king lady least leave Leon live look lost lovers Lyndar madam married mean mind mistress move nature never night once Ozmyn Pala person play poet Poly prince queen reason SCENE seems Selin soul speak stand stay sure sword tell thee thing thou thought true turn virtue wife
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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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