The Works of John Dryden: Dramatic worksW. Paterson, 1882 |
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ACACIS Alib ALIBECH ALMERIA Amid AMIDEO Asteria beauty betwixt Bibber blank verse brother Burr Cand Candiope Celadon Const Constance Cort cousin CYDARIA dare death devil dost Dryden Duke of Lerma Enter Exeunt Exit eyes Fail FAILER fair fate fear fight Florimel fortune Fran give gods Gons GONSALVO GUYOMAR haste heart heaven HIPPOLITO honour hope Inca Indian Indian Queen ISABELLE Ismeron JOHN DRYDEN Julia kind lady live look lord Loveby Lysimantes madam MANUEL marry methinks mistress Mont MONTEZUMA ne'er never NONSUCH ODMAR OLINDA Orazia ORBELLAN passion Phil Philocles pity play poet prince Queen revenge rhyme Rodorick SCENE servant Setstone Sir Timorous soul Spaniards speak stay sure sword tell thee there's thing thou Trax TRAXALLA Trice Twas Vasq verse virtue vow to gad words Zemp
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Seite 137 - But the excellence and dignity of it were never fully known till Mr Waller taught it; he first made writing easily an art; first showed us to conclude the sense most commonly in distichs; which, in the verse of those before him, runs on for so many lines together that the reader is out of breath to overtake it..
Seite 130 - Play ; when it was only a confused mass of thoughts tumbling over one another in the dark : when the Fancy was yet in its first work, moving the sleeping Images of Things towards the light, there to be distinguished ; and then, either chosen or rejected by the Judgement.
Seite 138 - For imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless, that like an high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment.
Seite 16 - And just abandoning the ungrateful stage : Unprofitably kept at Heaven's expense, I live a rent-charge on His providence : But you, whom every Muse and grace adorn, Whom I foresee to better fortune born, Be kind to my remains ; and oh, defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend ! Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue, But shade those laurels which descend to you : And take for tribute what these lines express ; You merit more, nor could my love do less.
Seite 128 - I feel death rising higher still and higher, Within my bosom; every breath I fetch Shuts up my life within a shorter compass, And, like the vanishing sound of bells, grows less And less each pulse, till it be lost in air.
Seite 384 - Ah fading joy ! how quickly art thou past ! * Yet we thy ruin haste. As if the cares of human life were few, We seek out new : And follow fate, that does* too fast pursue.
Seite 364 - All things are hush'd as Nature's self lay dead, The mountains seem to nod their drowsy head : The little birds in dreams their songs repeat, And sleeping flowers beneath the night dews sweat. Even lust and envy sleep...
Seite 298 - Our language is noble, full, and significant ; and I know not why he who is master of it may not clothe ordinary things in it as decently as the Latin, if he use the same diligence in his choice of words : delectus verborum origo est eloquentiae.
Seite 297 - Thus prose, though the rightful prince, yet is by common consent deposed, as too weak for the government of serious plays ; and he failing, there now start up two competitors ; one the nearer in blood, which is blank verse ; the other more fit for the ends of government, which is rhyme. Blank verse is, indeed, the nearer prose, but he is blemished with the weakness of his predecessor. Rhyme (for I will deal clearly) hSs somewhat of the usurper in him ; but he is brave and generous, and his dominion...
Seite 136 - I admire some men should perpetually stumble in a way so easy, and inverting the order of their words, constantly close their lines with verbs, which though commended sometimes in writing Latin, yet we were whipt at Westminster if we used it twice together. I knew some, who, if they were to write in blank verse, Sir, I ask your pardon, would think it sounded more heroically to write, Sir, I your pardon ask.