The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volumul 6A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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Pagina 8
... give me a reputation with the present age , and with posterity . And now , my lord , I know you are afraid , lest I should take this occasion , which lies an uncommon strain of self - depreciation , or rather to give a neat turn to his ...
... give me a reputation with the present age , and with posterity . And now , my lord , I know you are afraid , lest I should take this occasion , which lies an uncommon strain of self - depreciation , or rather to give a neat turn to his ...
Pagina 9
... give me leave to tell you , that I value the candour of your nature , and that one character of friendliness , and , if I may have leave to call it , kind- ness in you , before all those other which make you considerable in the nation ...
... give me leave to tell you , that I value the candour of your nature , and that one character of friendliness , and , if I may have leave to call it , kind- ness in you , before all those other which make you considerable in the nation ...
Pagina 10
... give you some account of this comedy , which you have never seen , because it was written and acted in your absence , at your government of Jamaica . It was intended for an honest satire against our crying sin of keep- ing ; how it ...
... give you some account of this comedy , which you have never seen , because it was written and acted in your absence , at your government of Jamaica . It was intended for an honest satire against our crying sin of keep- ing ; how it ...
Pagina 17
... give me counsel : Mark that , and trem- ble at his destiny . Gerv . I know the reason why I am kept ; be- cause you cannot be discovered by my means ; for you took me up in France , and your father knows me not . Wood . I must have a ...
... give me counsel : Mark that , and trem- ble at his destiny . Gerv . I know the reason why I am kept ; be- cause you cannot be discovered by my means ; for you took me up in France , and your father knows me not . Wood . I must have a ...
Pagina 23
... give them my counsel , and assist them with my purse . I cannot see a pretty sinner hurried to pri- son by the land - pirates , but nature works , and I must bail her ; or want a supper , but I have a cou- ple of crammed chickens , a ...
... give them my counsel , and assist them with my purse . I cannot see a pretty sinner hurried to pri- son by the land - pirates , but nature works , and I must bail her ; or want a supper , but I have a cou- ple of crammed chickens , a ...
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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.