The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 7Paterson, 1882 - 1 páginas |
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Albanius Albion Albion and Albanius Almeyda Antonio Archbishop of LYONS arms Bend BENDUCAR betwixt blood Cardinal of GUISE Christian conscience court Cril Crillon crown dare death devil Don Sebastian Dorax Dryden Duke of Guise Duke of Monmouth emperor Enter Exeunt Exit faction fate father fear fool friends give guards hand head hear heart heaven Henry III holy Holy League honour judge king King of Navarre king's libel LIBRARIES STANFORD lord madam majesty Malicorne Marmoutier Morayma Mufti Muley-Zeydan murder Navarre never noble opera Papists parallel Parliament party person play poet prince Protestant rabble reason rebel religion revenge royal scene Sebast slave soul speak STANFORD UNIVERSITY sure sword tell thee there's thou hast throne tragedy traitor true twas tyrant UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES villain Whig
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Página 294 - I beg no pity for this mouldering clay ; For if you give it burial, there it takes Possession of your earth ; If burnt, and scatter'd in the air, the winds That strew my dust diffuse my royalty, And spread me o'er your clime ; for where one atom Of mine shall light, know there Sebastian reigns.
Página 135 - THE VINDICATION OR THE PARALLEL of the French Holy-League, and the English League and Covenant, Turn'd into a Seditious Libell against the King and his Royal Highness, by Thomas Hunt and the Authors of the Reflections upon the Pretended Parallel in the Play called The Duke of Guise.
Página 378 - But observe how he defies him out of the classics in the following lines : Why didst thou not engage me man to man, And try the virtue of that Gorgon face To stare me into statue ? " Almeyda, at the same time, is more book-learned than Don Sebastian.
Página 54 - The rebel tribe, of which that vermin's one, Have now set forward and their course begun; And while that Prince's figure they deface, As they before had massacred his name, Durst their base fears but look him in the face, They'd use his person as they've...
Página 229 - The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally supernatural, as gods, and goddesses, and heroes, which at least are descended from them, and are in due time to be adopted into their number.
Página 232 - It is almost needless to speak anything of that noble language in which this musical drama was first invented and performed. All who are conversant in the Italian cannot but observe that it is the softest, the sweetest, the most harmonious, not only of any modern tongue, but even beyond any of the learned. It seems indeed to have been invented for the sake of Poetry and Music...
Página 137 - A Defence of the Charter and Municipal Rights of the City of London, and the Rights of other Municipal Cities and Towns of England. Directed to the Citizens of London, by Thomas Hunt.
Página 313 - Hollingshed writ before him ; otherwise we must have been content with their dull relations, if a better pen had not been allowed to come after them, and writ his own account after a new and better manner.
Página 266 - Old father Ocean calls my tide ; Come away, come away ; The barks upon the billows ride, The master will not stay ; The merry boatswain from his side His whistle takes, to check and chide The lingering lads' delay, And all the crew aloud has cried, Come away, come away. See, the god of seas attends thee, Nymphs divine, a beauteous train ; All the calmer gales befriend thee, In thy passage o'er the main ; Every maid her locks is binding, Every Triton's horn is winding ; \Yelcome to the wat'ry plain...
Página 243 - But hark ! the full orchestra strike the strings ; The hero struts, and the whole audience sings. My jarring ear harsh grating murmurs wound, Hoarse and confused, like Babel's mingled sound. Hard chance had placed me near a noisy throat, 195 That in rough quavers bellow'd ev'ry note.