The Works Of John Dryden Now First Collected In Eighteen Volume

_Ind._ The night seems doubled with the fear she brings, And o'er the citadel new-spreads her wings. The morning, as mistaken, turns about, And all her early fires again go out....

_Har._ My sorrow cannot be so soon digested for losing of a son I loved so well; but I consider great advantages must with some loss be bought; as this rich trade which I this d...

_Eve._ Methinks I tread more lightly on the ground; My nimble feet from unhurt flowers rebound: I walk in air, and scorn this earthly seat; Heaven is my palace; this my base ret...

Distrust, and darkness, of a future state, Make poor mankind so fearful of their fate. Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear, To be we know not what, we know not where. [_So...

_Ant._ I cannot. I could pull out an eye, and bid it go, And t'other should not weep. Oh, Dolabella, How many deaths are in this word, _depart_! I dare not trust my tongue to te...

_Char._ Be juster, heaven; such virtue punished thus, Will make us think that chance rules all above, And shuffles, with a random hand, the lots, Which man is forced to draw.

_Ind._ You first betrayed your trust, in loving me; And should not I my own advantage see? Serving my love, you may my friendship gain; You know the rest of your pretences vain....

_Aur._ What man could do, was by Morat performed; The fortress thrice himself in person stormed. Your valour bravely did the assault sustain, And filled the moats and ditches wi...

_At one door, enter_ CLEOPATRA, CHARMION, IRAS, _and_ ALEXAS, _a Train of Egyptians: at the other,_ ANTONY _and Romans. The entrance on both sides is prepared by music; the trum...

_Isab._ Come, it is a plot betwixt you: My Englishman is jealous, and has sent you to try my faith: he might have spared the experiment, after a three years absence; that was a...

_Cleo._ I am no queen: Is this to be a queen, to be besieged By yon insulting Roman, and to wait Each hour the victor's chain? These ills are small; For Antony is lost, and I ca...

_Ser._ Portents and prodigies have grown so frequent, That they have lost their name. Our fruitful Nile Flowed ere the wonted season, with a torrent So unexpected, and so wondro...

_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 n...

_Adam._ Strange was your dream, and full of sad portent; Avert it, heaven, if it from heaven were sent! Let on thy foes the dire presages fall; To us be good and easy, when we c...

_Fisc._ Then, my brave governor, if you're a true Dutchman, I'll make your fat sides heave with the conceit on't, 'till you're blown like a pair of large smith's bellows; here,...

_Tow._ Sure I mistook the place; I'll wait no longer: Something within me does forebode me ill; I stumbled when I entered first this wood; My nostrils bled three drops; then sto...

_Lucif._ Fair place! yet what is this to heaven, where I Sat next, so almost equalled the Most High? I doubted, measuring both, who was more strong; Then, willing to forget time...

is almost wholly dark: A Symphony of warlike Music is heard for some time; then from the Heavens, (which are opened) fall the rebellious Angels, wheeling in Air, and seeming tra...

_Per._ Asleep, as I imagined, and as fast as all the plummets of eternal night were hung upon his temples. Oh that some courteous dæmon, in the other world, would let him know,...

_Fisc._ 'Twill now be suddenly, if we have courage in this wild woody walk, hot with the feast and plenteous bowls, the bridal company are walking to enjoy the cooling breeze; I...

_The day is come, I see it rise, Betwixt the bride and bridegroom's eyes; That golden day they wished so long, Love picked it out amidst the throng; He destined to himself this...

_Adam._ What am I? or from whence? For that I am [_Rising._ I know, because I think; but whence I came, Or how this frame of mine began to be, What other being can disclose to m...

3. This passage though, doubtless applicable to many of the men of rank at the court of Charles II., was particularly levelled at Lord Rochester with whom our author was now on...

_Har. Sen._ Got together, got together, I warrant you, before this time; you Englishmen are so hot, you cannot stay for ceremonies. A good honest Dutchman would have been plying...

_Adam._ If this be dreaming, let me never wake; But still the joys of that sweet sleep partake. Methought--but why do I my bliss delay, By thinking what I thought? Fair vision,...

_Per._ True, the reward proposed is great enough, I want it too; besides, this Englishman has never paid me since, as his lieutenant, I served him once against the Turk at sea;...