The Merry Monarch: Or, England Under Charles II. Its Art, Literature and Society, Band 2Remington & Company, 1885 |
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... Dryden . The portrait was exact in every detail , but its cruelty was proportionate to its cleverness . Bucking- ham , it is said , took considerable pains in teaching Lacy . * Lacy died in 1681. Three years later his posthumous comedy ...
... Dryden . The portrait was exact in every detail , but its cruelty was proportionate to its cleverness . Bucking- ham , it is said , took considerable pains in teaching Lacy . * Lacy died in 1681. Three years later his posthumous comedy ...
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... Dryden at Will's Coffee - House . He was on intimate terms with Pepys : “ I do find him , " says Pepys , " a very excellent person , such as in my whole acquaintance I do not know another better qualified for converse , whether in ...
... Dryden at Will's Coffee - House . He was on intimate terms with Pepys : “ I do find him , " says Pepys , " a very excellent person , such as in my whole acquaintance I do not know another better qualified for converse , whether in ...
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... his beating by Sir Charles Sedley's appointment . " One of his best characters was " Don Sebastian , " in * " Apology for His Own Life , " by Colley Cibber . Dryden's tragedy of that name , in which his " 32 THE MERRY MONARCH ;
... his beating by Sir Charles Sedley's appointment . " One of his best characters was " Don Sebastian , " in * " Apology for His Own Life , " by Colley Cibber . Dryden's tragedy of that name , in which his " 32 THE MERRY MONARCH ;
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... Dryden's tragedy of that name , in which his " lion - like majesty " was the delight of the town . He also " created , " as the phrase runs , " Harcourt , " in Wycherley's " Country Wife " ( 1675 ) , " Freeman , " in Wycherley's " Plain ...
... Dryden's tragedy of that name , in which his " lion - like majesty " was the delight of the town . He also " created , " as the phrase runs , " Harcourt , " in Wycherley's " Country Wife " ( 1675 ) , " Freeman , " in Wycherley's " Plain ...
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... Dryden listened to his witticisms with respect ; Cowley , Otway , Rowe , and brilliant Mrs. Centlivre were among his friends ; and Til- lotson greatly enjoyed his conversation . Everybody knows the anecdote which illustrates the ...
... Dryden listened to his witticisms with respect ; Cowley , Otway , Rowe , and brilliant Mrs. Centlivre were among his friends ; and Til- lotson greatly enjoyed his conversation . Everybody knows the anecdote which illustrates the ...
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actor actress admirable afterwards Anthony Wood Bayes beauty Betterton Bishop Bishop Burnet Burnet character Charles Charles II charming Church Church of England Cibber Colley Cibber Court Davenant death delight Denham died discourse Divine Dryden Duchess Duke of Buckingham Duke of York Duke's Earl England English father favour genius gentlemen graceful Gwynn hath heart honour Hudibras I'gad Jeremy Taylor John King King's Knipp Lady Lady Castlemaine lived London Lord Milton mind mistress nature Nell Gwynn never night noble Oxford Parliament passion Penn Penn's Pepys person philosophy play players poem poet preached Prince published Quaker Queen reign Restoration Rochester royal satire says Sedley seems sermon Siege of Rhodes sing song soul spirit stage Taylor Theatre thee things thou thought tion took tragedy truth verdict verse wife William William Penn write wrote young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 86 - Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.
Seite 260 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings, till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant and stay till the storm was over ; and then...
Seite 90 - By likening spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Seite 250 - Thou that art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that remain in the broad sea.
Seite 111 - Go, lovely Rose! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.
Seite 254 - ... asked him why he did not worship the God of heaven ? The old man told him that he worshipped the fire only, and acknowledged no other God ; at which answer Abraham grew so zealously angry, that he thrust the old man out of his tent, and exposed him to all the evils of the night and an unguarded condition. When the old man was gone, God called to Abraham, and asked him where the stranger was? He replied, I thrust him away because he did not worship thee...
Seite 84 - Him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon, i with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of...
Seite 338 - Forgive, me, LORD, for Thy dear SON, The ill that I this day have done ; That with the world, myself, and Thee, I, ere I sleep, at peace may be.
Seite 84 - For who knows not that Truth is strong, next to the Almighty ; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious, those are the shifts and the defences that Error uses against her power.
Seite 414 - To us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.