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“With how much ease believe we what we wish!”

John Dryden All for Love

Cleopatra in Act IV, scene I
All for Love (1678)

“Of ancient race by birth, but nobler yet
In his own worth.”

John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel

Pt. I, lines 900–901.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

“War seldom enters but where wealth allures.”

John Dryden book The Hind and the Panther

Pt. II, line 706.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)

“Too black for heav'n, and yet too white for hell.”

John Dryden book The Hind and the Panther

Pt. I, line 343.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)

“Made still a blund'ring kind of melody;
Spurred boldly on, and dashed through thick and thin,
Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in.
Free from all meaning, whether good or bad,
And in one word, heroically mad.”

John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel

Pt. II, line 413.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

“Behold him setting in his western skies,
The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise.”

John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel

Pt. I line 268.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

“Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command
Some peaceful province in acrostic land.
There thou mayst wings display and altars raise,
And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.”

John Dryden

Source: Mac Flecknoe (1682), l. 205–208.

“The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes
And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.”

John Dryden book Fables, Ancient and Modern

Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Line 107.

“The wretched have no friends.”

John Dryden All for Love

Act III, scene I
All for Love (1678)

“Large was his wealth, but larger was his heart.”

John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel

Pt. I, line 826.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

“Your case no tame expedients will afford,
Resolve on death or conquest by the sword,
Which for no less a stake than life you draw,
And self-defence is Nature's eldest law.”

John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel

Pt. I, lines 455–458.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

“Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.”

John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel

Pt. I, line 967.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

“Railing in other men may be a crime,
But ought to pass for mere instinct in him:
Instinct he follows and no further knows,
For to write verse with him is to transpose.”

John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel

Pt. II, line 440.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

“Love is lord of all, and is in all the same.”

John Dryden

Georgic III, lines 380.
The Works of Virgil (1697)

“What precious drops are those
Which silently each other's track pursue,
Bright as young diamonds in their infant dew?”

John Dryden The Conquest of Granada

Part 2, Act III, scene i.
The Conquest of Granada (1669-1670)

“Since heaven's eternal year is thine.”

John Dryden

To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killegrew (1686), line 15.

“Possess your soul with patience.”

John Dryden book The Hind and the Panther

Pt. III, line 839.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)

“The true Amphitryon is the Amphitryon where we dine.”

John Dryden Amphitryon

Amphitryon (1690), Act IV scene i.

“Better one suffer, than a nation grieve.”

John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel

Pt. I line 416.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

“Whate’er he did was done with so much ease,
In him alone 't was natural to please.”

John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel

Pt. I line 27-28.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)