 I'll like Almanzor act ; and dare to be As haughty, and as wretched too, as he. What will he think is in my message meant ? I scarcely understand my own intent : But, silkworm-like, so long within have wrought, That I am lost in my own web of thought.  The Works of John Dryden: Dramatic works - Page 143by John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883Full view - About this book
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 474 pages
...return ? Yes ; for my love I will by virtue square ; My heart's not mine, but all my actions are. I'll like Almanzor act ; and dare to be As haughty, and...meant ? I scarcely understand my own intent: But, silk-worm like, so long within have wrought, That I am lost in my own web of thought. [Exit ALMAHIDE.... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 468 pages
...return ? Yes ; for my love I will by virtue square ; My heart's not mine, but all my actions are. I'll like Almanzor act ; and dare to be As haughty, and...meant ? I scarcely understand my own intent : But, silk-worm like, so long within have wrought, That I am lost in my own web of thought. [Exit ALMAHIDE.... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1851 - 768 pages
...73. MAGNARUM rerum tarda molimina. Do they think I might say of myself with Dryden's Almahide : — " I scarcely understand my own intent, But, silkworm-like,...wrought, That I am lost in my own web of thought." Conq. of Gtranada, pt. ii. act i. se. ii. USE of bringing out our own conceptions, and, as it were,... | |
 | 1868 - 690 pages
...expressed as it is apt in conception : — " I scarcely understand my own intent ; But, silk-worm like, so long within have wrought, That I am lost in my own web of thought." In the " Rival Ladies," Angelina, walking in the dark, describes her sensations naturally and strikingly... | |
 | JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. A.M. - 1870 - 604 pages
...as it is apt in conception : — • ' ' I scarcely understand my own intent ; But, silk- worm like, so long within have wrought, That I am lost in my own web of thought." In the " Rival Ladies," Angelina, walking in the dark, describes her sensations naturally and strikingly... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1898 - 396 pages
...expressed as it is apt in conception : — 44 1 scarcely understand my own intent; But, silk-worm like, so long within have wrought, That I am lost in my own web of thought." In the " Rival Ladies," Angelina, walking in the dark, describes her sensations naturally and strikingly... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1874 - 412 pages
...through chinks that Time has made. Waller. 86. I scarcely understand my own intent; But, silk-worm like, so long within have wrought, That I am lost in my own web of thought. — Dryden. 86. One sally of a hero's soul, While timorous wit goes round, or fords the shore, He shoots... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...and pleasure reign. COWPER : Retirement. I scarcely understand my own intent, But, silk-worm like, so long within have wrought, That I am lost in my own web of thought. DRYDEN. So truly, faithfully, my heart is thine, Dear Thought ! that when I am debarr'd from thee By... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1877 - 328 pages
...illustration is furnished byDryden : " I scarcely understand my own intent ; But, silk-worm like, BO long within have wrought That I am lost in my own web of thought." If we inquire of what resemblance is here predicated, the answer is, not of the poet and a silk-worm,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...and pleasure reign. COWPER : Retirement. I scarcely understand my own intent, But, silk-worm like, so long within have wrought, That I am lost in my own web of thought. DRYDEN. So truly, faithfully, my heart is thine, Dear Thought! that when I am debarr'd from the* By... | |
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