The Works of John Dryden,: Amphitryon, or The two sosias, a comedy. King Arthur, or the British Worthy, a dramatic opera. Cleomenes, the Spartan hero, a tragedy. Love triumphant, or Nature will prevail, a tragicomedyWilliam Miller, Albemarle Street, 1808 |
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Page 335
... Alph . Oh raging , impious , and yet hopeless fire ! Not daring to possess what I desire ; Condemn'd to suffer what I cannot bear ; Tortur'd with love , and furious with despair . Of all the pains which wretched mortals prove , The ...
... Alph . Oh raging , impious , and yet hopeless fire ! Not daring to possess what I desire ; Condemn'd to suffer what I cannot bear ; Tortur'd with love , and furious with despair . Of all the pains which wretched mortals prove , The ...
Page 349
... Alph . I saw you , sir , engaged in ceremonies , And therefore thought I might defer this office , To give you time for decent thanks to Garcia . Vera . You rather went where more affection cal- led you . Alph . I may have been too ...
... Alph . I saw you , sir , engaged in ceremonies , And therefore thought I might defer this office , To give you time for decent thanks to Garcia . Vera . You rather went where more affection cal- led you . Alph . I may have been too ...
Page 350
... Alph . I have already said much more than needs , To move a noble mind ; Such as my father's is , or ought to be . Vera . Come , let me hear my duty from my son . Alph . If more be wanting on so plain a theme , Think on the slippery ...
... Alph . I have already said much more than needs , To move a noble mind ; Such as my father's is , or ought to be . Vera . Come , let me hear my duty from my son . Alph . If more be wanting on so plain a theme , Think on the slippery ...
Page 351
... Alph . The world knows how I fought : But old men have prerogative of tongue , And kings of power , and parents that of nature . Your pardon , royal sir . Vera . I give it you ; Your battle now is paid at the full price . [ XIMENA ...
... Alph . The world knows how I fought : But old men have prerogative of tongue , And kings of power , and parents that of nature . Your pardon , royal sir . Vera . I give it you ; Your battle now is paid at the full price . [ XIMENA ...
Page 352
... Alph . I think I do , because I won a kingdom . Vera . And knowest not how to keep it . Ram . What claim have you ? What right to my Castile ? Vera . The right of conquest ; for , when kings make war , No law betwixt two sovereigns can ...
... Alph . I think I do , because I won a kingdom . Vera . And knowest not how to keep it . Ram . What claim have you ? What right to my Castile ? Vera . The right of conquest ; for , when kings make war , No law betwixt two sovereigns can ...
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Page 189 - In the Art of exciting Pity, she had a Power beyond all the Actresses I have yet seen, or what your Imagination can conceive.
Page 452 - One day a great feast was held ; and after dinner the representation of Solomon his Temple, and the coming of the Queen of Sheba, was made, or (as I may better say) was meant to have been made, before their Majesties, by device of the Earl of Salisbury and others.
Page 88 - But not for a lip, nor a languishing eye: She's fickle and false, and there we agree, For I am as false and as fickle as she: We neither believe what either can say, And, neither believing, we neither betray. 'Tis civil to swear, and say things of course; We mean not the taking for better, for worse. When present we love, when absent agree: 10 I think not of Iris, nor Iris of me. The legend of love no couple can find So easy to part, or so equally joined.
Page 401 - Her eyes, her lips, her cheeks, her shape, her features, Seem to be drawn by Love's own hand ; by Love, Himself in love...
Page 463 - Took all the ungodly pains, and got the least. Thus did the thriving malady prevail ; The court its head, the poets but the tail. The sin was of our native growth, 'tis true ; The scandal of the sin was wholly new. Misses there were, but modestly concealed ; Whitehall the naked Venus first revealed, Who standing as at Cyprus in her shrine, The strumpet was adored with rites divine.
Page 338 - Call you that desperate, which, by a line Of institution, from our ancestors Hath been derived down to us, and received In a succession for the noblest way Of breeding up our youth, in letters, arms, Fair mien, discourses, civil exercise, And all the blazon of a gentleman ? Where can he learn to vault, to ride, to fence, To move his body gracefuller, to speak His language purer, or to tune his mind Or manners more to the harmony of nature, Than in these nurseries of nobility?
Page 459 - His onset was violent: those passages which while they stood single had passed with little notice, when they were accumulated and exposed together, excited horror; the wise and the pious caught the alarm, and the nation wondered why it had so long suffered irreligion and licentiousness to be openly taught at the public charge.
Page 246 - I THINK, or hope at least, the coast is clear ; That none but men of wit and sense are here ; That our Bear-garden friends are all away, Who bounce with hands and feet, and cry, Play, play...
Page 459 - He was formed for a controvertist ; with sufficient learning ; with diction vehement and pointed, though often vulgar and incorrect : with unconquerable pertinacity ; with wit in the highest degree keen and sarcastick ; and with all those powers exalted and invigorated by just confidence in his cause.
Page 456 - With shouting and hooting we pierce through the sky, And Echo turns hunter, and doubles the cry. JANUS Then our age was in its prime : CHRONOS Free from rage.