The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Band 6A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... heaven or hell ; What stuff will please you next , the Lord can tell . Let them , who the rebellion first began To wit , restore the monarch , if they can ; Our author dares not be the first bold man . He , like the prudent citizen ...
... heaven or hell ; What stuff will please you next , the Lord can tell . Let them , who the rebellion first began To wit , restore the monarch , if they can ; Our author dares not be the first bold man . He , like the prudent citizen ...
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... heaven be thanked , you have a toward and pregnant genius to vice , and need not any man's instruction ; and I am too good , I thank my stars , for the vile employ- ment of a pimp . Wood . Then thou art even too good for me ; a worse ...
... heaven be thanked , you have a toward and pregnant genius to vice , and need not any man's instruction ; and I am too good , I thank my stars , for the vile employ- ment of a pimp . Wood . Then thou art even too good for me ; a worse ...
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... heaven have con- spired my ruin . I'll look in my almanack . - As I hope for mercy , ' tis cross day now . Trick . Hangyour pitiful excuses . ' Tis well known what offers I have had , and what fortunes 1 might have made with others ...
... heaven have con- spired my ruin . I'll look in my almanack . - As I hope for mercy , ' tis cross day now . Trick . Hangyour pitiful excuses . ' Tis well known what offers I have had , and what fortunes 1 might have made with others ...
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... Heaven , O Heaven ! [ Exit . Limb . So , now you have spit your venom , and the storm's over . Aldo . [ Crying . ] That I should ever live to see this day ! Trick . To shew I can live honest , in SCENE II . 37 LIMBERHAM .
... Heaven , O Heaven ! [ Exit . Limb . So , now you have spit your venom , and the storm's over . Aldo . [ Crying . ] That I should ever live to see this day ! Trick . To shew I can live honest , in SCENE II . 37 LIMBERHAM .
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... heaven's sake ; they'll quickly be gone , and then- Wood . That then will make a man venture any thing . [ He goes in , and she locks the chest . Enter LIMBERHAM and ALDO . Limb . Dost thou not wonder to see me come again so quickly ...
... heaven's sake ; they'll quickly be gone , and then- Wood . That then will make a man venture any thing . [ He goes in , and she locks the chest . Enter LIMBERHAM and ALDO . Limb . Dost thou not wonder to see me come again so quickly ...
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Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.