(1670 –1729)
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)
*
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor
hell a fury like a woman scorned. (id. Act III, Scene VIII)
*
O fie, miss, you must not
kiss and tell. (Love for love)
teatro, tuttilibri
·
The old bachelor (1693)
·
The double dealer (1694)
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Love for love (1695)
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The mourning bride (1697)
·
The way of the world (1700)
