The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author, Band 8William Miller, 1808 |
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... clean work on't , that at least my skin may look like chequer - work . Amph . This request is too reasonable to be re- fused . But , that all things may be done in order , tell me over again the same story , with all the cir- cumstances ...
... clean work on't , that at least my skin may look like chequer - work . Amph . This request is too reasonable to be re- fused . But , that all things may be done in order , tell me over again the same story , with all the cir- cumstances ...
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... . What just revenge ! - Thou miscreant elf , thou renegado scout , So clean , so furbished , so renewed in white , The livery of our foes ; I see thee through : : What mak'st thou here ? thou trim apostate , 148 ACT III . KING ARTHUR .
... . What just revenge ! - Thou miscreant elf , thou renegado scout , So clean , so furbished , so renewed in white , The livery of our foes ; I see thee through : : What mak'st thou here ? thou trim apostate , 148 ACT III . KING ARTHUR .
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... Clean . And I was coming to you , on that message , Just when I met Pantheus . арасе , Panth . Good omen , sir , of some intended good . Your fortune mends ; she reconciles When Egypt makes the advances . Cleom . Rise a prophet ! —— For ...
... Clean . And I was coming to you , on that message , Just when I met Pantheus . арасе , Panth . Good omen , sir , of some intended good . Your fortune mends ; she reconciles When Egypt makes the advances . Cleom . Rise a prophet ! —— For ...
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... Clean . You are not Ptolemy ; Nor is he Cleomenes . Cleom . I'll press him home , To give me my dispatch ; few ships will serve To bear my little band , and me , to Greece : I will not ask him one of his Egyptians ; No , let him keep ...
... Clean . You are not Ptolemy ; Nor is he Cleomenes . Cleom . I'll press him home , To give me my dispatch ; few ships will serve To bear my little band , and me , to Greece : I will not ask him one of his Egyptians ; No , let him keep ...
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... Clean . Wouldst thou bring horses here , to shame our men ? Those very words , of spirited and war , Are treason in our clime . Cleom . From the king downward , ( if there be a downward , From Ptolemy to any of his slaves , ) No true ...
... Clean . Wouldst thou bring horses here , to shame our men ? Those very words , of spirited and war , Are treason in our clime . Cleom . From the king downward , ( if there be a downward , From Ptolemy to any of his slaves , ) No true ...
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Seite 453 - Sheba; but he fell down and humbled himself before her, and was carried to an inner chamber, and laid on a bed of state, which was not a little defiled with the presents of the Queen which had been bestowed on his garments; such as wine, cream, jelly, beverage, cakes, spices, and other good matters.
Seite 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.
Seite 453 - I will now, in good sooth, declare to you, who will not blab, that the gunpowder fright is got out of all our heads, and we are going on, hereabouts, as if the devil was contriving every man should blow up himself, by wild riot, excess, and devastation of time and temperance.
Seite 458 - All, all of a piece throughout ; Thy chase had a beast in view : Thy wars brought nothing about ; Thy lovers were all untrue. 'Tis well an old age is out, And time to begin a new.
Seite 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.
Seite 195 - Enriching moisture dropp'd on every thing ; " Plenty he sow'd below, and cast about him light ! " But then, alas ! to thee alone " One of old Gideon's miracles was shown; " For every tree and every herb around " With pearly dew was crown'd, " And upon all the quicken'd ground " The fruitful seed of heaven did brooding lie, " And nothing but the Muse's fleece was dry.
Seite 451 - I shall leave him dressed to posterity in the colours I saw him in the next progress after his inauguration, which was as green as the grass he trod on : with a feather in his cap, and a horn instead of a sword by his side ; how suitable to his age, calling, or person, I leave to others to judge from his pictures...
Seite 342 - 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...
Seite 116 - ... and he was endless in consultations ; for when after much discourse a point was settled, if he could find a new jest to make even that which was suggested by himself seem ridiculous, he could not hold, but would study to raise the credit of his wit, though it made others call his judgment in question.
Seite 453 - I am certain she was not joined with good works, and left the Court in a staggering condition; Charity came to the King's feet, and seemed to cover the multitude of sins her sisters had committed...