The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author, Volume 3William Miller, 1808 - English literature |
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... devil is this master of mine ? he is ever out of the way , when he should do him- self good ! This ' tis to serve a coxcomb , one that has no more brains than just those I carry for him . Well ! of all fops commend me to him for the ...
... devil is this master of mine ? he is ever out of the way , when he should do him- self good ! This ' tis to serve a coxcomb , one that has no more brains than just those I carry for him . Well ! of all fops commend me to him for the ...
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... devil cannot hold him ; now will this thick - skulled master of mine tell the whole story to his rival ! Sir Mart . You'll say , ' twas strange , sir ; but at the first glance we cast on one another , both our hearts leaped within us ...
... devil cannot hold him ; now will this thick - skulled master of mine tell the whole story to his rival ! Sir Mart . You'll say , ' twas strange , sir ; but at the first glance we cast on one another , both our hearts leaped within us ...
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... devil camest thou to know on't ? and why the devil didst thou not tell me on't ? Warn . To the first of your devils I answer , her maid , Rose , told me on't : To the second , I wish a thousand devils take him that would not hear me ...
... devil camest thou to know on't ? and why the devil didst thou not tell me on't ? Warn . To the first of your devils I answer , her maid , Rose , told me on't : To the second , I wish a thousand devils take him that would not hear me ...
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... devil take me if I can answer her a word ; all my senses are quite employed another way . Chr . Ne'er stir , my lord , I must cry out . Lord . Then I must stop your mouth - this ruby for a kiss - that is but one ruby for another . Chr ...
... devil take me if I can answer her a word ; all my senses are quite employed another way . Chr . Ne'er stir , my lord , I must cry out . Lord . Then I must stop your mouth - this ruby for a kiss - that is but one ruby for another . Chr ...
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... too . Excuse him if thou canst . [ Aside . Warn . How the devil should I excuse him ? Thou know'st he is the greatest fop in nature . [ Aside to ROSE . Rose . But my lady does not know it ; SCENE II . 23 SIR MARTIN MAR - ALL .
... too . Excuse him if thou canst . [ Aside . Warn . How the devil should I excuse him ? Thou know'st he is the greatest fop in nature . [ Aside to ROSE . Rose . But my lady does not know it ; SCENE II . 23 SIR MARTIN MAR - ALL .
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Page 119 - em. Caliban. I must eat my dinner. This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, Which thou tak'st from me. When thou earnest first, Thou strok'dst me and mad'st much of me, wouldst give me Water with berries in't, and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night : and then I lov'd thee, And show'd thee all the qualities o' th' isle, The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile.
Page 119 - would it had been done ! Thou didst prevent me ; I had peopled else This isle with Calibans. Pro. Abhorred slave ; Which any print of goodness will not take, Being capable of all ill ! I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour One thing or other : when thou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning, but would'st gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known...
Page 143 - Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change, Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Hark! now I hear them - Ding-dong, bell.
Page 196 - O ! wonder ! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pro. Tis new to thee.
Page 164 - Perhaps, sweet youth, when you behold her, you Will find you do not love her. HIP. I find already I love, because she is another woman. FERD. You cannot love two women both at once.
Page 355 - Poets, like lovers, should be bold, and dare — They spoil their business with an over-care; And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence.
Page 388 - I'le lead you thence to melancholy Groves. And there repeat the Scenes of our past Loves: At night, I will within your Curtains peep; With empty arms embrace you while you sleep ; In gentle dreams I often will be by; And sweep along, before your closing eye.
Page 99 - Eloquence, which uses to make a business of a Letter of Gallantry, an examen of a Farce; and, in short, a great pomp and ostentation of words on every trifle. This is certainly the Talent of that Nation, and ought not to be invaded by any other.
Page 103 - Shakspeare's magic could not copied be ; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
Page 186 - Blood calls for blood ; your Ferdinand shall die, And I, in bitterness, have sent for you, To have the sudden joy of seeing him alive, And then the greater grief to see him die.