Poems and Prose of John DrydenPenguin Books, 1955 - 356 pages |
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Page 94
... rest besieged but we constrained the town.2 We saw th ' event that followed our success ; France , though pretending arms , pursued the peace , Obliged by one sole treaty to restore What twenty years of war had won before . Enough for ...
... rest besieged but we constrained the town.2 We saw th ' event that followed our success ; France , though pretending arms , pursued the peace , Obliged by one sole treaty to restore What twenty years of war had won before . Enough for ...
Page 158
... rest , since the other four are then to be straitened within the compass of the remaining half . For it is unnatural that one act , which being spoke or written is not longer than the rest , should be supposed longer by the audience ...
... rest , since the other four are then to be straitened within the compass of the remaining half . For it is unnatural that one act , which being spoke or written is not longer than the rest , should be supposed longer by the audience ...
Page 180
... rest of the persons are only sub- servient to set him off . If he intends this by it , that there is one person in the play who is of greater dignity than the rest , he must tax not only theirs but those of the ancients and , which he ...
... rest of the persons are only sub- servient to set him off . If he intends this by it , that there is one person in the play who is of greater dignity than the rest , he must tax not only theirs but those of the ancients and , which he ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
PROLOGUE TO THE TEMPEST 1670 | 97 |
PROLOGUE AND EPILOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY | 104 |
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