The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volumul 6A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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Pagina 118
... Laius forth with a numerous party of guards , to avoid the indecorum of a king going abroad too slenderly attended . The guards lose their way within a league of their master's capital ; and , by this awkward contrivance , their absence ...
... Laius forth with a numerous party of guards , to avoid the indecorum of a king going abroad too slenderly attended . The guards lose their way within a league of their master's capital ; and , by this awkward contrivance , their absence ...
Pagina 119
... Laius , are all secondary and subordinate considerations to the loves of Theseus and Dircé , as flat and un- interesting a pair as ever spoke platitudes in French hexameters . So much is this the engrossing subject of the drama , that ...
... Laius , are all secondary and subordinate considerations to the loves of Theseus and Dircé , as flat and un- interesting a pair as ever spoke platitudes in French hexameters . So much is this the engrossing subject of the drama , that ...
Pagina 120
... Laius , braves his resentment , and pro- phesies his miserable catastrophe . In Dryden's play , the first anathema of the prophet is levelled only against the unknown murderer ; and it is not till the powers of hell have been invoked ...
... Laius , braves his resentment , and pro- phesies his miserable catastrophe . In Dryden's play , the first anathema of the prophet is levelled only against the unknown murderer ; and it is not till the powers of hell have been invoked ...
Pagina 123
... Laius , been represented as atrocious , or , at least , un- warrantable ; as the sequel would then have been a warning , how impossible it is to calculate the consequences or extent of a single act of guilt . But , after all , Dryden ...
... Laius , been represented as atrocious , or , at least , un- warrantable ; as the sequel would then have been a warning , how impossible it is to calculate the consequences or extent of a single act of guilt . But , after all , Dryden ...
Pagina 125
... Laius ; which is here performed in view of the audience , the rites and ceremonies so far his , as he agreed with anti- quity , and the religion of the Greeks . But he him- self was beholden to Homer's Tiresias , in the Odysses , " for ...
... Laius ; which is here performed in view of the audience , the rites and ceremonies so far his , as he agreed with anti- quity , and the religion of the Greeks . But he him- self was beholden to Homer's Tiresias , in the Odysses , " 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.