The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...W. Miller, 1808 |
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... there . Wood . Like enough : Pray , what's his name ? Aldo . George Aldo . Wood . I must confess I do know the ... There's music above . Aldo . " Tis at my daughter Tricksy's lodging ; the kept mistress I told you of , the lass of ...
... there . Wood . Like enough : Pray , what's his name ? Aldo . George Aldo . Wood . I must confess I do know the ... There's music above . Aldo . " Tis at my daughter Tricksy's lodging ; the kept mistress I told you of , the lass of ...
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... there's hopes , i'faith . Trick . You seem to know him , father . Aldo . Know him ! from his cradle- name ? Wood ... there is between this gentleman , and my feeble keeper , Mr Limber- ham ! he's to my wish , if he would but make the ...
... there's hopes , i'faith . Trick . You seem to know him , father . Aldo . Know him ! from his cradle- name ? Wood ... there is between this gentleman , and my feeble keeper , Mr Limber- ham ! he's to my wish , if he would but make the ...
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... there's another lady in the house , my landlady's fair daugh- ter ; how came you to leave her out of your cata- logue ? Aldo . She's pretty , I confess , but most damnably honest ; have a care of her , I warn you , for she's prying and ...
... there's another lady in the house , my landlady's fair daugh- ter ; how came you to leave her out of your cata- logue ? Aldo . She's pretty , I confess , but most damnably honest ; have a care of her , I warn you , for she's prying and ...
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... There's no quarrel towards , I hope . Trick . You had best tell now , and make yourself ridiculous . Limb . She's in passion : Pray do you moderate this matter , father Aldo . Trick . Father Aldo ! I wonder you are not asha- med to call ...
... There's no quarrel towards , I hope . Trick . You had best tell now , and make yourself ridiculous . Limb . She's in passion : Pray do you moderate this matter , father Aldo . Trick . Father Aldo ! I wonder you are not asha- med to call ...
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... there are other beauties in the house ; and I should be impatient of a rival : for I am apt to be partial to myself ... There's not room enough for a thought to play in . Trick . I think indeed I may safely trust you with such charms ...
... there are other beauties in the house ; and I should be impatient of a rival : for I am apt to be partial to myself ... There's not room enough for a thought to play in . Trick . I think indeed I may safely trust you with such charms ...
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Página 229 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue: if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost...
Página 291 - I am giddy, expectation whirls me round. The imaginary relish is so sweet That it enchants my sense. What will it be When that the watery...
Página 264 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. Duch. Alas ! poor Richard ! where rides he the while ? York. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Página 249 - The first rule which Bossu prescribes to the writer of an heroic poem, and which holds too by the same reason in all dramatic poetry, is to make the moral of the work, that is, to lay down to yourself what that precept of morality shall be, which you would insinuate into the people...
Página 261 - I. cannot deny that he has his failings; but they are not so much in the passions themselves as in his manner of expression: he often obscures his meaning by his words, and sometimes makes it unintelligible. I will not say of so great a poet that he distinguished not the blown puffy style from true sublimity; but I may venture to maintain that the fury of his fancy often transported him beyond the bounds of judgment, either in coining of new words and phrases, or racking words which were in use into...
Página 313 - Can life be a blessing, Or worth the possessing, Can life be a blessing, if love were away? Ah, no! though our love all night keep us waking, And though he torment us with cares all the day, Yet he sweetens, he sweetens our pains in the taking; There's an hour at the last, there's an hour to repay. In...
Página 229 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...
Página 194 - E'en wondered at because he dropt no sooner; Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years; Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more, Till, like a clock worn out with eating Time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still.
Página 252 - A character, or that which distinguishes one man from all others, cannot be supposed to consist of one particular virtue, or vice, or passion only; but 'tis a composition of qualities which are not contrary to one another in the same person...
Página 253 - Tis one of the excellencies of Shakespeare that the manners of his persons are generally apparent, and you see their bent and inclinations.