 | Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton - 1813 - 324 pàgines
...resemblance to that of nature, and wberc the characters and sentiments are equally hypothetical !— Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound, And nature flies him like enchanted ground. Prol, to " Atirengzel/e.'' With this declaration of the impotence of rhyme, Dryden (once it's strenuous... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pàgines
...dramatick compositions, that it is surprising he should not have been struck by it at aa earlier period : " Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound, " And nature flies him like enchanted ground." The interest which Charles the Second took in the exhibitions of the stage is well known, and is strongly... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 608 pàgines
...dramatick compositions, that it is surprising he should not have been struck by it at An earlier period : " Passion's too fierce to be In fetters bound, " And nature flies him like enchanted ground." The interest which Charles the Second took in the exhibitions of the stage is well known, and is strongly... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 622 pàgines
...compositions, that it is surprising hit should not have been struck by it at an earlier period : " Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound, " And nature flies him like enchanted ground." The interest which Charles the Second took in the exhibitions of the stage is well known, and is strongly... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 472 pàgines
...crimes is penitence. * The author applies the same simile to the use of rhyme ia tragedy ; Passion';, too fierce to be in fetters bound, And nature flies him like enchanted gionnd. Yet since the effects of providence, we find, Are variously dispensed to human kind ; That... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 436 pàgines
...upon the wane : 1 'ml he has now another taste of wit ; And, to confess a truth, though out of time, Grows weary of his long-loved mistress, Rhyme. Passion's too fierce to be in letters bound, And nature flies him, like enchanted ground. What verse can do, he has performed in... | |
 | Prologues - 1810 - 280 pàgines
...And to confefs a truth, (though out of time) Grows weary of his long-lov'd miftrefs, Rhime. Paffion's too fierce to be in fetters bound, And Nature flies him like enchanted ground. What verfe can do he has perform'd in this, Which he prefumes the moft correct of-his. But fpite of all... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 610 pàgines
...to confefs a truth, though out of time, Grows weary of his long-lov'd miftrefs, 111 nine. Paffion's too fierce to be in fetters bound, And nature flies him like enchanted ground : 10 "What verfe can do, he has performed in this, Which he prefumes the jnoft correct of his ; But... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 616 pàgines
...And, to confefs a truth, though out of time, Grows weary of his long-lov'd miftrefs, Rhime. Paffion's too fierce to be in fetters bound, , And nature flies him like enchanted ground : 10 What verfe can do, he has performed in this, Which he prefumes the moft correct of his ; But fpite... | |
 | Thomas Otway - 1813 - 342 pàgines
...resemblance to that of nature, and where the characters and sentiments are equally hypothetical*— Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound, And nature flies him like enchanted ground. Prol. to " Aurengzebe." With this declaration of the impotence of rhyme, Dryden (once it's strenuous... | |
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But he has now another taste of wit; And, to confess a truth, (though out of time), Grows weary of his long-loved mistress rhyme. Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound, And nature flies him like enchanted ground... 
