The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volumul 6A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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Pagina 229
... Achilles , full of the purest and most admirable moral precept , expressed in the most poetical and dignified language . Probably this omission arose from Dryden's desire to simplify the plot , by leaving out the intrigues of the Gre ...
... Achilles , full of the purest and most admirable moral precept , expressed in the most poetical and dignified language . Probably this omission arose from Dryden's desire to simplify the plot , by leaving out the intrigues of the Gre ...
Pagina 240
... Achilles . I will not weary my reader with the scenes which are added of Pandarus and the lovers , in the third , and those of Thersites , which are wholly altered ; but I cannot omit the last scene in it , which is almost half the act ...
... Achilles . I will not weary my reader with the scenes which are added of Pandarus and the lovers , in the third , and those of Thersites , which are wholly altered ; but I cannot omit the last scene in it , which is almost half the act ...
Pagina 251
... Achilles patient , because Homer has described them quite otherwise . Yet this is a rock , on which ignorant writers daily split ; and the absurdity is as monstrous , as if a painter should draw a coward running from a battle , and tell ...
... Achilles patient , because Homer has described them quite otherwise . Yet this is a rock , on which ignorant writers daily split ; and the absurdity is as monstrous , as if a painter should draw a coward running from a battle , and tell ...
Pagina 268
... ACHILLES , Grecian Warriors , engaged in the Siege of Troy . AJAX , NESTOR , DIOMEDES , PATROCLUS , MENELAUS , THERSITES , a slanderous Buffoon . CRESSIDA , Daughter to CALCHAS . ANDROMACHE , Wife to HECTOR . TROILUS AND CRESSIDA . ACT ...
... ACHILLES , Grecian Warriors , engaged in the Siege of Troy . AJAX , NESTOR , DIOMEDES , PATROCLUS , MENELAUS , THERSITES , a slanderous Buffoon . CRESSIDA , Daughter to CALCHAS . ANDROMACHE , Wife to HECTOR . TROILUS AND CRESSIDA . ACT ...
Pagina 271
... Achilles , whom opinion crowns The chief of all our host , Having his ears buzz'd with his noisy fame , Disdains thy sovereign charge , and in his tent Lies , mocking our designs ; with him Patroclus , Upon a lazy bed , breaks scurril ...
... Achilles , whom opinion crowns The chief of all our host , Having his ears buzz'd with his noisy fame , Disdains thy sovereign charge , and in his tent Lies , mocking our designs ; with him Patroclus , Upon a lazy bed , breaks scurril ...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volumul 6 John Dryden,Walter Scott Vizualizare completă - 1821 |
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Achilles Adrastus Æneas Agam Agamemnon Ajax Alph Andromache arms Bert Bertran betwixt blood Brain Brainsick brother Calchas Creon Cressida curse dare daughter dear death Dioc Diom Diomede Dryden Edip Edipus Enter Eurydice Exeunt Exit eyes fate father Aldo fear fool friar fury Gerv ghost give gods Grecian Hæmon hand hast hear heart heaven Hect Hector honour Jocasta king Laius leave Limb Limberham look lord madam Menelaus mistress murder never Pand Pandarus passion Patro Patroclus Phor Phorbas pity play Pleas poet Polybus Pray Priam priest prince queen Raym rogue Saint scene Shakespeare shew Sophocles soul speak sword tell Thebans Thebes thee there's Thers Thersites thou art thought Tiresias Torrismond tragedy Trick Tricksy Troil Troilus and Cressida Trojan Troy Ulys Ulysses Wood Woodall words wretched
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Pagina 223 - Keeps honour bright: To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path...
Pagina 223 - High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Pagina 285 - Too subtle-potent, tun'd too sharp in sweetness, For the capacity of my ruder powers: I fear it much; and I do fear besides, That I shall lose distinction in my joys...
Pagina 188 - E'en wondered at because he dropt no sooner; Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years; Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more, Till, like a clock worn out with eating Time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still.
Pagina 223 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast; keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue: If you...
Pagina 117 - Yet man, vain man, would with his short-lined plummet Fathom the vast abyss of heavenly justice. Whatever is, is in its causes just, Since all things are by fate. But purblind man Sees but a part o' th' chain, the nearest links, His eyes not carrying to that equal beam That poises all above.
Pagina 258 - God save him; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, — His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience ; — That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Pagina 365 - AmboyS" upon the theatre ; but when I had taken up what I supposed a fallen star, I found I had been cozened with a jelly ;* nothing but a cold, dull mass, which glittered no longer than it was shooting...
Pagina 223 - For time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And, with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Pagina 440 - Kings' titles commonly begin by force, Which time wears off, and mellows into right; So power, which, in one age, is tyranny, Is ripened, in the next, to true succession: She's in possession.