Dryden: A SelectionMethuen, 1978 - 632 pages |
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Page 248
... never - changing state , which all must keep , Whom death has doomed to everlasting sleep . Why are we then so fond of mortal life , Beset with dangers , and maintained with strife ? A life which all our care can never save ; One fate ...
... never - changing state , which all must keep , Whom death has doomed to everlasting sleep . Why are we then so fond of mortal life , Beset with dangers , and maintained with strife ? A life which all our care can never save ; One fate ...
Page 375
... never have come in a more lucky minute ; for it found her in an ill humour with a rival of yours , that shall be nameless , about the pronunciation of a French word . PALAMEDE Count Rhodophil ? never disguise it , I know the amour : but ...
... never have come in a more lucky minute ; for it found her in an ill humour with a rival of yours , that shall be nameless , about the pronunciation of a French word . PALAMEDE Count Rhodophil ? never disguise it , I know the amour : but ...
Page 530
... never equal them , but they could never equal themselves , were they to rise and write again . We acknowledge them our fathers in wit , but they have ruined their estates themselves before they came to their children's hands . There is ...
... never equal them , but they could never equal themselves , were they to rise and write again . We acknowledge them our fathers in wit , but they have ruined their estates themselves before they came to their children's hands . There is ...
Contents
Upon the Death of the Lord Hastings 37 | 3 |
Heroic Stanzas to the Memory of Oliver Cromwell | 14 |
To Dr Charleton | 28 |
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action ALEXAS Ancients ANTONY appear arms bear beauty better cause characters CLEOPATRA comedy concernment court dear death DOLABELLA DORALICE Dryden English Enter eyes fate father fear fire foes follow force fortune French give hand happy haste hear heart Heav'n honour hope Italy judge kind king laws least leave LEONIDAS less live look lord lost manners means MELANTHA mind move nature never observed once pains PALAMEDE PALMYRA pass passions Persius persons pity play pleased plot poem poet poor praise prince raise reason rest RHODOPHIL rhyme Roman rule satire scene sense side soul speak stage stand sure tell thee things thou thought tragedy translation true turn VENTIDIUS verse virtue wife write young
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