“Truth is the foundation of all knowledge, and the cement of all societies.”
The Character of Polybius (1692)
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“For present joys are more to flesh and blood
Than a dull prospect of a distant good.”
Pt. III, lines 364–365.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“Happy who in his verse can gently steer
From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.”
The Art of Poetry, canto i, line 75.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 37–41.
Aeneis, Book VI, lines 192–195.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
“Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped;
And they have kept it since by being dead.”
Epilogue.
The Conquest of Granada (1669-1670)
“For truth has such a face and such a mien
As to be loved needs only to be seen.”
Pt. I, lines 33–34.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.”
St. 4.
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day http://www.englishverse.com/poems/a_song_for_st_cecilias_day_1687 (1687)
Source: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 57–60.
Pt. I, lines 230–239.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
Pt. I, lines 554–557.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
“Than a successive title long and dark,
Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark.”
Pt 1, line 301.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit,
The power of beauty I remember yet.”
Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Lines 1–2.
“Here lies my wife:here let her lie!
Now she's at rest, and so am I.”
Epitaph, intended for his wife
Aeneis, Book VI, lines 374–377.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
Essay of Dramatick Poesie (1668) Full text online http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/drampoet.html.
“Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.”
To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killegrew (1686), line 70.