The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIII: Plays: All for Love, Oedipus, Troilus and CressidaUniversity of California Press, 24.01.1985 - 672 Seiten Volume XIII contains three of Dryden's Plays, along with accompanying scholarly appartus: All for Love, Oedipus, and Troilus and Cressida. |
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... Arms than theirs , and other Sinews are requir'd , to raise the weight of such an Author ; and when they would toss him against their Enemies , Genua labant , gelidus concrevit frigore sanguis , Tum lapis ipse , viri vacuum per inane ...
... Arms than theirs , and other Sinews are requir'd , to raise the weight of such an Author ; and when they would toss him against their Enemies , Genua labant , gelidus concrevit frigore sanguis , Tum lapis ipse , viri vacuum per inane ...
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... Arms Far as the Earth's deep Center . Well , you know The state of things ; no more of your ill Omens , And black Prognosticks ; labour to confirm The peoples hearts . Enter Ventidius , talking aside with a Gentleman of Antony's . Serap ...
... Arms Far as the Earth's deep Center . Well , you know The state of things ; no more of your ill Omens , And black Prognosticks ; labour to confirm The peoples hearts . Enter Ventidius , talking aside with a Gentleman of Antony's . Serap ...
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... Arms As the first Cæsar was , that I might kill thee Without a Stain to Honor ! Ven . You may kill me ; You have done more already , call'd me Traitor . Ant . Art thou not one ? Ven . For showing you your self , Which none else durst ...
... Arms As the first Cæsar was , that I might kill thee Without a Stain to Honor ! Ven . You may kill me ; You have done more already , call'd me Traitor . Ant . Art thou not one ? Ven . For showing you your self , Which none else durst ...
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... Arms , And Mans each part about me : once again , 440 That noble eagerness of fight has seiz'd me ; That eagerness , with which I darted upward To Cassius's Camp : In vain the steepy Hill , Oppos'd my way ; in vain a War of Speares Sung ...
... Arms , And Mans each part about me : once again , 440 That noble eagerness of fight has seiz'd me ; That eagerness , with which I darted upward To Cassius's Camp : In vain the steepy Hill , Oppos'd my way ; in vain a War of Speares Sung ...
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... Arm'd Assembly with his Nod , But making show as he would rub his eyes , Disguis'd and blotted out a falling tear . Cleop . Did he then weep ? and , Was I worth a tear ? 70 If what thou hast to say be not as pleasing , Tell me no more ...
... Arm'd Assembly with his Nod , But making show as he would rub his eyes , Disguis'd and blotted out a falling tear . Cleop . Did he then weep ? and , Was I worth a tear ? 70 If what thou hast to say be not as pleasing , Tell me no more ...
Inhalt
Oedipus | 113 |
Troilus and Cressida | 217 |
Commentary | 357 |
Textual Notes | 567 |
Appendixes | 625 |
Index to the Commentary | 637 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Achilles Adrastus Æge Ægeon Æneas Agamemnon Ajax Alex Alexas Antony and Cleopatra Antony's Cæsar Calchas character Charmion Clark Cleo Cleop copies Corneille corrected form cou'd Creon Cressi criticism Danby death Diom Diomede Dolla Dollabella Dryden English Eurydice ev'n eyes Fate fear fool French Ghost Gods Grecian Greek Hæmon hast heart Heav'n Hect Hector Helen honour I'le Iras Jocasta John Dryden King Laius Lajus Loeb trans Lord Menelaus Nestor Octavia Oedipus Pand Pandarus passion Patroclus Phorbas plague play plot Plutarch Poem Poet Poetry pow'r preface Prince Queen Roman Rymer s.d. Enter s.d. Exeunt s.d. Exit scene Seneca set as verse Shakespeare shou'd Sophocles Soul speak speech Sword Theban Thebes thee Thers Thersites thou thought Tiresias tragedy Troilus and Cressida Trojan Troy Ulysses uncorrected Ventidius words wou'd
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Seite 251 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. Duch. Alas ! poor Richard ! where rides he the while ? York. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Seite 411 - A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers...
Seite 437 - Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought, Perplex'd in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe...
Seite 23 - Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below.
Seite 78 - Men are but children of a larger growth; Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain ; And yet the soul, shut up in her dark room, Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing; But, like a mole in earth, busy and blind, Works all her folly up, and casts it outward To the world's open view...
Seite 471 - For, if the action be but one, and that plain, without any counterturn of design or episode, ie, underplot, how can it be so pleasing as the English, which have both underplot and a turned design, which keeps the audience in expectation of the catastrophe? whereas in the Greek poets we see through the whole design at first.
Seite 99 - Caesar's fleet. Now death or conquest! If the first happen, fate acquits my promise; If we o'ercome, the conqueror is yours. [A distant shout within.