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But a character of an eccentrick virtue is the more exact image of human life ,
because he is not wholly exempted from its frailties ; such a person is Almanzor ,
whom I presént , with all humility , to the patronage of your , royal highness .
But a character of an eccentrick virtue is the more exact image of human life ,
because he is not wholly exempted from its frailties ; such a person is Almanzor ,
whom I presént , with all humility , to the patronage of your , royal highness .
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... if I could yet give him a character more advantageous than what he has , of the
most unshaken friend , the greatest of subjects , and the best of masters , I should
then draw to all the world a true resemblance of your worth and virtues ; at least ...
... if I could yet give him a character more advantageous than what he has , of the
most unshaken friend , the greatest of subjects , and the best of masters , I should
then draw to all the world a true resemblance of your worth and virtues ; at least ...
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... people , who could more easily dispossess their lawful sovereign , than endure
a wanton jest , he was forced to turn his thoughts another way , and to introduce
the examples of moral virtue , writ in verse , and performed in recitative music .
... people , who could more easily dispossess their lawful sovereign , than endure
a wanton jest , he was forced to turn his thoughts another way , and to introduce
the examples of moral virtue , writ in verse , and performed in recitative music .
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... more fitted to the common actions and passions of human life ; and , in short ,
more like a glass of nature , shewing us ourselves in our ordinary habits , and
figuring a inore practicable virtue to us , than was done by the ancients or
moderns .
... more fitted to the common actions and passions of human life ; and , in short ,
more like a glass of nature , shewing us ourselves in our ordinary habits , and
figuring a inore practicable virtue to us , than was done by the ancients or
moderns .
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Tis said , that Almanzor is no perfect pattern of heroic virtue , that he is a
contemner of king ' s , and that he is made to perform impossibilities . I must
therefore avow , in the first place , from whence I took the character . The first
image I had of ...
Tis said , that Almanzor is no perfect pattern of heroic virtue , that he is a
contemner of king ' s , and that he is made to perform impossibilities . I must
therefore avow , in the first place , from whence I took the character . The first
image I had of ...
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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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