 | Herbert Morse - 1915 - 320 pages
...stage the universal agent is Love, by whose power all good and evil is distributed, and every action quickened or retarded. To bring a lover a lady, and...them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with opposition of interest, and harass them with violence of desires with each other ; to make them meet... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1928 - 108 pages
...stage the universal agent is love, by whose power all good and evil is distributed, and every action quickened or retarded. To bring a lover, a lady, and a rival into the fable; to entangle them in contra 1 The Greek Theatre of Father Brumoy. Translated by Mrs. Charlotte Lennox, 3 vols., 1759. Johnson... | |
 | Frank Laurence Lucas - 1923 - 220 pages
...contain any person or thing remotely associated with the lower classes. "To bring," says Johnson,107 "a lover, a lady and a rival into the fable; to entangle...them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1928 - 444 pages
...grammarian may be left to classify other variations. There is, for example, the infinitival subject : To bring a lover, a lady, and a rival, into the fable ; to entangle them ... to make them meet ... to fill their mouths with ... to distress them ... to deliver them ... is... | |
 | 1909 - 498 pages
...stage the universal agent is love, by whose power all good and evil is distributed, and every action quickened or retarded. To bring a lover, a lady and...them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest, and harrass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 pages
...stage the universal agent is love, by whose power all good and evil is distributed and every action quickened or retarded. To bring a lover, a lady, and...them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to... | |
 | Harry Levin - 1988 - 225 pages
...the comic pattern is that of a mating game or dance. Dr. Johnson outlined the habitual choreography: To bring a lover, a lady, and a rival into the fable;...them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 pages
...universal agent is love <Vt/29>, by whose power all good and evil is distributed, and every action quickened or retarded. To bring a lover, a lady, and...them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...stage the universal agent is love,4 by whose power all good and evil is distributed, and every action quickened or retarded. To bring a lover, a lady and...them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest,5 and harrass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to... | |
 | Robert Alter - 1996 - 264 pages
...stage the universal agent is love, by whose power all good and evil is distributed, and every action quickened or retarded. To bring a lover, a lady, and...them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to... | |
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To bring a lover, a lady, and a rival into the fable; to entangle them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to make them meet in rapture and part... 
