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Thomas Otway est un dramaturge anglais de l'époque de la Restauration, sous Charles II.

✵ 3. mars 1652 – 14. avril 1685
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Thomas Otway: Citations en anglais

“Dear as the vital warmth that feeds my life;
Dear as these eyes, that weep in fondness o’er thee.”

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Thomas Otway Venice Preserv'd

Venice Preserv'd (1682), Act v. Sc. 1. Compare: "Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes; Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart", Thomas Gray, The Bard, part i. stanza 3.

“What mighty ills have not been done by woman!
Who was ’t betrayed the Capitol?—A woman!
Who lost Mark Antony the world?—A woman!
Who was the cause of a long ten years’ war,
And laid at last old Troy in ashes?—Woman!
Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman!”

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Thomas Otway The Orphan

The Orphan (1680), Act iii. Sc. 1. Compare: "O woman, woman! when to ill thy mind/ Is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend", Alexander Pope, Homer’s Odyssey, book xi., line 531.

“O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee
To temper man: we had been brutes without you.
Angels are painted fair, to look like you:
There ’s in you all that we believe of heaven,—
Amazing brightness, purity, and truth,
Eternal joy, and everlasting love.”

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Thomas Otway Venice Preserv'd

Venice Preserv'd (1682), Act i. Sc. 1.

“Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.”

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Thomas Otway The Orphan

The Orphan (1680), Act iv. Sc. 2. Compare: "Let us swear an eternal friendship", John Hookham Frere, The Rovers, act i. sc. 1.

“And die with decency.”

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Thomas Otway Venice Preserv'd

Venice Preserv'd (1682), Act v. Sc. 3.