The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...W. Miller, 1808 |
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... mistress of your vows be kind , If you have any ; or , if you have none , So may your liberty be still your own ! Almanz . Yes , I will turn my face , but not my mind : You bane and soft destruction of mankind , What would you have with ...
... mistress of your vows be kind , If you have any ; or , if you have none , So may your liberty be still your own ! Almanz . Yes , I will turn my face , but not my mind : You bane and soft destruction of mankind , What would you have with ...
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... mistress I too long forget ; The crown I promised is not offered yet . Without her presence all my joys are vain , Empire a curse , and life itself a pain . ACT IV . SCENE I. [ Exeunt . Enter BOABDELIN , ABENAMAR , and Guards . Boab ...
... mistress I too long forget ; The crown I promised is not offered yet . Without her presence all my joys are vain , Empire a curse , and life itself a pain . ACT IV . SCENE I. [ Exeunt . Enter BOABDELIN , ABENAMAR , and Guards . Boab ...
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... mistress you adore ; And now , with studied tricks of subtlety , You come prepared to lay the fault on me . [ Wringing her hands . But , oh , that I should love so false a man ! Abdelm . Hear me , and then disprove it , if you can ...
... mistress you adore ; And now , with studied tricks of subtlety , You come prepared to lay the fault on me . [ Wringing her hands . But , oh , that I should love so false a man ! Abdelm . Hear me , and then disprove it , if you can ...
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... mistress . Aben . And my daughter too . Almanz . Believe , old man , that I her father knew : What else should make Almanzor kneel to you ? - Nor doubt , sir , but your right to her was known : For had you had no claim but love alone ...
... mistress . Aben . And my daughter too . Almanz . Believe , old man , that I her father knew : What else should make Almanzor kneel to you ? - Nor doubt , sir , but your right to her was known : For had you had no claim but love alone ...
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... mistress of the town , Is gained with ease , but then she's lost as soon : For , as those tawdry misses , soon or late , Jilt such as keep them at the highest rate ; And oft the lacquey , or the brawny clown , Gets what is hid in the ...
... mistress of the town , Is gained with ease , but then she's lost as soon : For , as those tawdry misses , soon or late , Jilt such as keep them at the highest rate ; And oft the lacquey , or the brawny clown , Gets what is hid in the ...
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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.