“Endure the hardships of your present state,
Live, and reserve yourselves for better fate.”
Aeneis, Book I, lines 289–290.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
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“So softly death succeeded life in her,
She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.”
Eleonora, Line 315.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I have a soul that like an ample shield
Can take in all, and verge enough for more.”
Don Sebastian (1690), Act I scene i.
“His courage foes, his friends his truth proclaim.”
John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel
Pt. I line 357.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
“And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted Jove,
Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand.”
Annus Mirabilis, Stanza 39.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.”
John Dryden book The Hind and the Panther
Pt. I, line 4.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“She knows her man, and when you rant and swear,
Can draw you to her with a single hair.”
Persius, Satire v, line 246.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Words, once my stock, are wanting to commend
So great a poet and so good a friend.”
Epistle to Peter Antony Motteux (1698), lines 54–55.
“An horrid stillness first invades the ear,
And in that silence we the tempest fear.”
Astraea Redux (1660), line 7–8.
The Wild Gallant, act ii. scene. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
King Arthur (1691), Act II scene v, 'Song of Venus.
“She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty,
Grows cold even in the summer of her age.”
Act IV, scene i.
Œdipus (1679)
Source: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 158–159.
“They say everything in the world is good for something.”
Act III, scene 2.
The Spanish Friar (1681)
“And new-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care
Turn'd by a gentle fire and roasted rare.”
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book viii. Baucis and Philemon, Line 97.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Plots, true or false, are necessary things,
To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.”
John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel
Pt. I line 83-84.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
“But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be;
Within that circle none durst walk but he.”
The Tempest, Prologue.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“And kind as kings upon their coronation day.”
John Dryden book The Hind and the Panther
Pt. I, line 271.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
Mariage à la Mode, Act ii, scene 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)