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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... wou'd perswade the People that they might be happier by a change . ' Twas indeed the policy of their old Forefather , when himself was fallen from the station of Glory , to seduce Mankind into the same Rebellion with him , by telling ...
... wou'd perswade the People that they might be happier by a change . ' Twas indeed the policy of their old Forefather , when himself was fallen from the station of Glory , to seduce Mankind into the same Rebellion with him , by telling ...
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... wou'd produce in the Person of a Son . But so unhappy an oc- casion of manifesting your own Zeal in suffering for his present Majesty , the Providence of God , and the Prudence of your Ad- ministration , will , I hope , prevent . That ...
... wou'd produce in the Person of a Son . But so unhappy an oc- casion of manifesting your own Zeal in suffering for his present Majesty , the Providence of God , and the Prudence of your Ad- ministration , will , I hope , prevent . That ...
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... wou'd give me leave : the like I have observ'd in Cleo- patra . That which is wanting to work up the pity to a greater heighth , was not afforded me by the story : for the crimes of love which they both committed , were not occasion'd ...
... wou'd give me leave : the like I have observ'd in Cleo- patra . That which is wanting to work up the pity to a greater heighth , was not afforded me by the story : for the crimes of love which they both committed , were not occasion'd ...
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... wou'd fain be nibbling ere their teeth are come . Yet , in this nicety of manners does the excellency of French Poetry consist : their Heroes are the most civil people breathing ; but their good breeding seldom extends to a word of ...
... wou'd fain be nibbling ere their teeth are come . Yet , in this nicety of manners does the excellency of French Poetry consist : their Heroes are the most civil people breathing ; but their good breeding seldom extends to a word of ...
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... wou'd be thankful to him , they whom he praises wou'd chuse to be condemned ; and the Magistrates whom he has elected , wou'd modestly withdraw from their employment , to 10 avoid the scandal of his nomination . The sharpness of his ...
... wou'd be thankful to him , they whom he praises wou'd chuse to be condemned ; and the Magistrates whom he has elected , wou'd modestly withdraw from their employment , to 10 avoid the scandal of his nomination . The sharpness of his ...
Inhalt
Oedipus | 113 |
Troilus and Cressida | 217 |
Commentary | 357 |
Textual Notes | 567 |
Appendixes | 625 |
Index to the Commentary | 637 |
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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.