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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... face , with a long chin at end on't . Item , One pair of shambling legs , with two splay feet belonging to them ; and , sum- ma totallis , from head to foot all my bodily apparel . [ To MERCURY . ] Well , you are Sosia ; there's no de ...
... face , with a long chin at end on't . Item , One pair of shambling legs , with two splay feet belonging to them ; and , sum- ma totallis , from head to foot all my bodily apparel . [ To MERCURY . ] Well , you are Sosia ; there's no de ...
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... god for us women ! he had the art of making love . Dost thou think that kings , or gods either , get mis- tresses by their good faces ? no , it is the gold , and the presents they can make ; there is the tive SCENE II . 43 . AMPHITRYON .
... god for us women ! he had the art of making love . Dost thou think that kings , or gods either , get mis- tresses by their good faces ? no , it is the gold , and the presents they can make ; there is the tive SCENE II . 43 . AMPHITRYON .
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... face to invite me , nor youth to please me , nor gold to bribe me ; and , besides all this , thou hast a wife , poor miserable Sosia ! -What , ho , Bromia ! Merc . O thou merciless creature , why dost thou conjure up that sprite of a ...
... face to invite me , nor youth to please me , nor gold to bribe me ; and , besides all this , thou hast a wife , poor miserable Sosia ! -What , ho , Bromia ! Merc . O thou merciless creature , why dost thou conjure up that sprite of a ...
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... face ; or else they would never call me cuckold , as they do . Amph . I mean thou hast not wit enough to make a lie that will hang together : thou hast set up a trade that thou hast not stock enough to manage . O that I had but a crab ...
... face ; or else they would never call me cuckold , as they do . Amph . I mean thou hast not wit enough to make a lie that will hang together : thou hast set up a trade that thou hast not stock enough to manage . O that I had but a crab ...
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... Sos . Have you not seen a sixpence split into two halves , by some ingenious school - boy ; which bore on either side the impression of the monarch's face ? Now , as those moieties were two three - pences SCENE I. 53 AMPHITRYON .
... Sos . Have you not seen a sixpence split into two halves , by some ingenious school - boy ; which bore on either side the impression of the monarch's face ? Now , as those moieties were two three - pences SCENE I. 53 AMPHITRYON .
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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...