The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volumul 6A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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Pagina 144
... Edip . Thus pleasure never comes sincere to man , But lent by heaven upon hard usury ; And while Jove holds us out the bowl of joy , Ere it can reach our lips , ' tis dash'd with gall By some left - handed god . O mournful triumph ! O ...
... Edip . Thus pleasure never comes sincere to man , But lent by heaven upon hard usury ; And while Jove holds us out the bowl of joy , Ere it can reach our lips , ' tis dash'd with gall By some left - handed god . O mournful triumph ! O ...
Pagina 145
... Edip . My friend ! that other name keeps enmity alive . But longer to detain thee were a crime ; To love , and to Eurydice , go free . Such welcome , as a ruin'd town can give , Expect from me ; the rest let her supply . Adr . I go ...
... Edip . My friend ! that other name keeps enmity alive . But longer to detain thee were a crime ; To love , and to Eurydice , go free . Such welcome , as a ruin'd town can give , Expect from me ; the rest let her supply . Adr . I go ...
Pagina 146
... Edip . O were our gods as ready with their pity , As I with mine , this presence should be throng'd With all I left alive ; and my sad eyes Not search in vain for friends , whose promised sight Flatter'd my toils of war . 1 Pr . Twice ...
... Edip . O were our gods as ready with their pity , As I with mine , this presence should be throng'd With all I left alive ; and my sad eyes Not search in vain for friends , whose promised sight Flatter'd my toils of war . 1 Pr . Twice ...
Pagina 147
... Edip . Norany from him ? came there no attendant ? None to bring news ? 2 Pr . But one ; and he so wounded , He scarce drew breath to speak some few faint words . Edip . What were they ? something may be learnt from thence . 1 Pr . He ...
... Edip . Norany from him ? came there no attendant ? None to bring news ? 2 Pr . But one ; and he so wounded , He scarce drew breath to speak some few faint words . Edip . What were they ? something may be learnt from thence . 1 Pr . He ...
Pagina 148
... Edip . O fatal sound ! unfortunate Jocasta ! What hast thou said ? an ill hour hast thou chosen For these fore - boding words ! why , we were cursing ! Joc . Then may that curse fall only where you laid it . Edip . Speak no more ! For ...
... Edip . O fatal sound ! unfortunate Jocasta ! What hast thou said ? an ill hour hast thou chosen For these fore - boding words ! why , we were cursing ! Joc . Then may that curse fall only where you laid it . Edip . Speak no more ! For ...
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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.