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... hear such applause resounded on the victories of an Almanzor , when the same parties had possibly no later than the day before bestowed their applause as freely on the victorious Butcher , the hero of another stage . " Miscellaneous ...
... hear such applause resounded on the victories of an Almanzor , when the same parties had possibly no later than the day before bestowed their applause as freely on the victorious Butcher , the hero of another stage . " Miscellaneous ...
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... hear , if you please , one of the ancients delivering his judgment on this question ; it is Petronius Arbiter , the most elegant , and one of the most judicious authors of the Latin tongue ; who , after he had given many admirable rules ...
... hear , if you please , one of the ancients delivering his judgment on this question ; it is Petronius Arbiter , the most elegant , and one of the most judicious authors of the Latin tongue ; who , after he had given many admirable rules ...
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... answer , I introduced them not on the English stage : Shakespeare used them frequently ; and though Jonson shews no battle in his " Catiline , " yet you hear 1 from behind the scenes the sounding of trumpets , 22 AN ESSAY ON HEROIC PLAYS .
... answer , I introduced them not on the English stage : Shakespeare used them frequently ; and though Jonson shews no battle in his " Catiline , " yet you hear 1 from behind the scenes the sounding of trumpets , 22 AN ESSAY ON HEROIC PLAYS .
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... gamesters , can be content to sit quietly ; to hear my fortune cursed by some , and my faults arraigned by others ; and to suffer both without reply . ( ON MR DRYDEN'S PLAY , THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA AN ESSAY ON HEROIC PLAYS 27.
... gamesters , can be content to sit quietly ; to hear my fortune cursed by some , and my faults arraigned by others ; and to suffer both without reply . ( ON MR DRYDEN'S PLAY , THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA AN ESSAY ON HEROIC PLAYS 27.
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... hear of peace , Till we by force have first revenged our slain . Abdelm . The action we have done we will main- tain . Selin . Then let the king depart , and we will try Our cause by arms . Zul . For us and victory . Boab . A king ...
... hear of peace , Till we by force have first revenged our slain . Abdelm . The action we have done we will main- tain . Selin . Then let the king depart , and we will try Our cause by arms . Zul . For us and victory . Boab . A king ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Abdal ABDALLA Abdelm ABDELMELECH Aben ABENAMAR Abencerrages Almah Almahide Almanz Almanzor Amal Amalthea Arcos Arga ARGALEON Asca ASCANIO Aurelian beauty Ben Jonson Benito Benz Benzayda betwixt Boab brave CAMILLO command Conquest of Granada court crown dare dear death DORALICE Dryden Duke Duke of ARCOS Enter Eubulus Exeunt Exit fate father favour fear fight fortune Fred give Guards HAMET hand happy haste hear heart heaven HERMOGENES honour hope JOHN DRYDEN king lady Laura leave Leon Leonidas live look lovers Lucretia Lyndar LYNDARAXA madam MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE married MELANTHA mistress never night Ozmyn Pala Palamede Palm Palmyra pity play poet Poly prince queen revenge Rhodophil SCENE Selin shew soul speak stay sword tell thee there's thing thou art thought twas VIOLETTA virtue wife words Zegrys ZULEMA
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Página 34 - 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 107 - 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 221 - 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 216 - 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 209 - 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 53 - ... 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 10 - You have lost that which you call natural, and have not acquired the last perfection of art.
Página 228 - ... 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 114 - 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.