The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author, 5. kötetWilliam Miller, 1808 |
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191. oldal
... Arim . Heaven seems the empire of the east to lay On the success of this important day : Their arms are to the last decision bent , And fortune labours with the vast event : She now has in her hand the greatest stake , Which for ...
... Arim . Heaven seems the empire of the east to lay On the success of this important day : Their arms are to the last decision bent , And fortune labours with the vast event : She now has in her hand the greatest stake , Which for ...
192. oldal
... Arim . What heaven decrees , no prudence can pre- vent . To cure their mad ambition , they were sent To rule a distant province each alone : What could a careful father more have done ? He made provision against all , but fate , While ...
... Arim . What heaven decrees , no prudence can pre- vent . To cure their mad ambition , they were sent To rule a distant province each alone : What could a careful father more have done ? He made provision against all , but fate , While ...
193. oldal
... Arim . What of the emperor ? Solym . Unmoved , and brave , he like himself ap- pears , And , meriting no ill , no danger fears : Yet mourns his former vigour lost so far , To make him now spectator of a war : Repining that he must ...
... Arim . What of the emperor ? Solym . Unmoved , and brave , he like himself ap- pears , And , meriting no ill , no danger fears : Yet mourns his former vigour lost so far , To make him now spectator of a war : Repining that he must ...
194. oldal
... Arim . But Aureng - Zebe , by no strong passion swayed , Except his love , more temperate is , and weighed : This Atlas must our sinking state uphold ; In council cool , but in performance bold : He sums their virtues in himself alone ...
... Arim . But Aureng - Zebe , by no strong passion swayed , Except his love , more temperate is , and weighed : This Atlas must our sinking state uphold ; In council cool , but in performance bold : He sums their virtues in himself alone ...
195. oldal
... Arim . If , as I fear , Morat these powers com- mands , Our empire on the brink of ruin stands : The ambitious empress with her son is joined , And , in his brother's absence , has designed The unprovided town to take with ease , And ...
... Arim . If , as I fear , Morat these powers com- mands , Our empire on the brink of ruin stands : The ambitious empress with her son is joined , And , in his brother's absence , has designed The unprovided town to take with ease , And ...
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291. oldal - Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them...
171. oldal - tis all a cheat, Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay ; To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse ; and, while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
408. oldal - Thou best of thieves ; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves ; discharging so Death's dreadful office, better than himself; Touching our limbs so gently into slumber, That death stands by, deceived by his own image, And thinks himself but sleep.
360. oldal - With sceptred slaves, who waited to salute me? With eastern monarchs, who forgot the sun, To worship my uprising? Menial kings Ran coursing up and down my palace-yard...
403. oldal - I will not make a business of a trifle; And yet I cannot look on you, and kill you; Pray turn your face.
337. oldal - I've been too passionate. Vent. You thought me false; Thought my old age betrayed you. Kill me, sir; Pray, kill me; yet you need not, your unkindness Has left your sword no work. Ant. I did not think so; I said it in my rage: pr'ythee, forgive me. Why didst thou tempt my anger, by discovery Of what I would not hear?
354. oldal - My queen's not only innocent, but loves me. This, this is she, who drags me down to ruin! " But, could she scape without me, with what haste Would she let slip her hold, and make to shore, And never look behind ! " Down on thy knees, blasphemer as thou art, And ask forgiveness of wronged innocence.
406. oldal - Caesar's pride ? What! to be led in triumph through the streets, A spectacle to base plebeian eyes; While some dejected friend of Antony's, Close in a corner, shakes his head, and mutters A secret curse on her who ruined him?
331. oldal - Lie there, thou shadow of an emperor; The place thou pressest on thy mother earth Is all thy empire now: now it contains thee; Some few days hence, and then 'twill be too large, When thou'rt contracted in thy narrow urn, Shrunk to a few cold ashes; then Octavia (For Cleopatra will not live to see it), Octavia then will have thee all her own, And bear thee in her...