William Congreve, al modo del mondo

 (1670 –1729) 

Works by William Congreve at Project Gutenberg

^ The mourning bride: a tragedy - Google Books. 

Of those few fools who with ill stars are curs’t,

sure scribbling fools, call’d  poets, fare the worst:

for they ‘re a sort of fools .which fortune makes,

and after she has made ‘em fools, forsakes.

(The way of the world, a comedy. Prologue,1.1)

di quei pochi sciocchi da cattive stelle maledetti,

sicuri scribacchini detti poeti pensa il peggio:

sono una sorta di sciocchi che il destino fabbrica,

ma  dopo averli fatti sciocchi li abbandona.

(Al modo del mondo, una commedia. Prologo)

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Music has charms to soothe a savage breast. (first line of the play The mourning bride, Act I, Scene 1)

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Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. (id. Act III, Scene VIII)

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O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell. (Love for love)

teatro, tuttilibri

·                    The old bachelor (1693)

·                    The double dealer (1694)

·                    Love for love (1695)

·                    The mourning bride (1697)

·                    The way of the world (1700)