The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author, Volum 5William Miller, 1808 |
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Pàgina 15
... confess , are pretty tricks , but will not do our business ; we must ourselves be ruined at long run , if they have any trade here ; I know our charge at length will eat us out : I would not let these English from this isle have cloves ...
... confess , are pretty tricks , but will not do our business ; we must ourselves be ruined at long run , if they have any trade here ; I know our charge at length will eat us out : I would not let these English from this isle have cloves ...
Pàgina 22
... should but trouble ye . Tow . You make me blush ; but if you ever were a lover , sir , you will forgive a folly , which is sweet , though , I confess , ' ts much extravagant . Har . Jun . He has but too much cause 22 ACT I. AMBOY NA .
... should but trouble ye . Tow . You make me blush ; but if you ever were a lover , sir , you will forgive a folly , which is sweet , though , I confess , ' ts much extravagant . Har . Jun . He has but too much cause 22 ACT I. AMBOY NA .
Pàgina 25
... confess , have told you first , because I would not give you that disquiet ; but since he has , it is too sad a truth . Tow . Leave us , my dear , a little to ourselves . Isab . I fear you will quarrel , for he seemed in- censed , and ...
... confess , have told you first , because I would not give you that disquiet ; but since he has , it is too sad a truth . Tow . Leave us , my dear , a little to ourselves . Isab . I fear you will quarrel , for he seemed in- censed , and ...
Pàgina 27
... confess you dare not fight ; you shall have provocations . Tow . I will not stay to take them . Only this be- fore I go ; if you are truly gallant , insult not where you have power , but keep your quarrel secret ; we may have time and ...
... confess you dare not fight ; you shall have provocations . Tow . I will not stay to take them . Only this be- fore I go ; if you are truly gallant , insult not where you have power , but keep your quarrel secret ; we may have time and ...
Pàgina 36
... , you English were such precise fools as to refuse it . Beam . For frugality in trading , we confess we cannot compare with you ;. for our merchants live like noblemen ; your gentlemen , if you have any 36 ACT II . AMBOYNA .
... , you English were such precise fools as to refuse it . Beam . For frugality in trading , we confess we cannot compare with you ;. for our merchants live like noblemen ; your gentlemen , if you have any 36 ACT II . AMBOYNA .
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 291 - Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them...
Pàgina 171 - tis all a cheat, Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay ; To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse ; and, while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Pàgina 408 - Thou best of thieves ; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves ; discharging so Death's dreadful office, better than himself; Touching our limbs so gently into slumber, That death stands by, deceived by his own image, And thinks himself but sleep.
Pàgina 360 - With sceptred slaves, who waited to salute me? With eastern monarchs, who forgot the sun, To worship my uprising? Menial kings Ran coursing up and down my palace-yard...
Pàgina 403 - I will not make a business of a trifle; And yet I cannot look on you, and kill you; Pray turn your face.
Pàgina 337 - I've been too passionate. Vent. You thought me false; Thought my old age betrayed you. Kill me, sir; Pray, kill me; yet you need not, your unkindness Has left your sword no work. Ant. I did not think so; I said it in my rage: pr'ythee, forgive me. Why didst thou tempt my anger, by discovery Of what I would not hear?
Pàgina 354 - My queen's not only innocent, but loves me. This, this is she, who drags me down to ruin! " But, could she scape without me, with what haste Would she let slip her hold, and make to shore, And never look behind ! " Down on thy knees, blasphemer as thou art, And ask forgiveness of wronged innocence.
Pàgina 406 - Caesar's pride ? What! to be led in triumph through the streets, A spectacle to base plebeian eyes; While some dejected friend of Antony's, Close in a corner, shakes his head, and mutters A secret curse on her who ruined him?
Pàgina 331 - Lie there, thou shadow of an emperor; The place thou pressest on thy mother earth Is all thy empire now: now it contains thee; Some few days hence, and then 'twill be too large, When thou'rt contracted in thy narrow urn, Shrunk to a few cold ashes; then Octavia (For Cleopatra will not live to see it), Octavia then will have thee all her own, And bear thee in her...