The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: Don Sebastian, king of Portugal. Amphitryon: or, The two Sosia's. Cleomenes, the Spartan heroe. King Arthur. Love triumphantJ. Tonsor, 1717 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 55 - Dignity with ease and complacency, the gentleman and soldier, look agreeably blended in him. Modesty marks every line and feature of his face.
Pàgina 503 - THE SECULAR MASQUE [Enter JANUS] JANUS. Chronos, Chronos, mend thy pace, An hundred times the rolling sun Around the radiant belt has run In his revolving race.
Pàgina 92 - I will ; and yet A kind of weight hangs heavy at my heart ; My flagging soul flies under her own pitch, Like fowl in air too damp, and lugs along, As if she were a body in a body, And not a mounting substance made of fire. My senses, too, are dull and stupefied, Their edge rebated : — sure some ill approaches, And some kind spirit knocks softly at my soul, To tell me, fate's. at hand.
Pàgina 358 - I have likewise had the satisfaction to hear, that her Majesty has graciously been pleased to peruse the manuscript of this opera, and given it her royal approbation. Poets, who subsist not but on the favour of sovereign princes, and of great persons, may have leave to be a little vain, and boast of their...
Pàgina 175 - I'll rather beat it back upon the hoof to my lord Amphitryon, to see if he will acknowledge me for Sosia ; if he does not, then I am no longer his slave ; there's my freedom dearly purchased with a sore drubbing : if he does acknowledge me, then I am Sosia again.
Pàgina 505 - Thy sword within the scabbard keep, And let mankind agree; Better the world were fast asleep, Than kept awake by thee. The fools are only thinner, With all our cost and care; But neither side a winner, For things are as they were.
Pàgina 503 - Weary, weary of my weight, Let me, let me drop my Freight, And leave the World behind. I could not bear Another Year The Load of Human-kind. Enter Momus Laughing.
Pàgina 20 - Earl of was pleased to read the tragedy twice over before it was acted, and did me the favour to send me word, that I had written beyond any of my former plays, and that he was displeased any thing should be cut away.
Pàgina 190 - More words than one to a bargain, sir. I thank you, — that's no part of prudence for me to commit burglary upon the seals : Do you look first upon the signet, and tell me, in your conscience, whether the seals be not as firm as when you clapt the wax upon them.
Pàgina 212 - Sofia, you and I muft Blefs me ! what have we here ? — A couple of you ! or do I fee double ? Sof.