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“Be kind to my remains; and oh defend,
Against your judgment, your departed friend!”

John Dryden

Epistle to Congreve (1693), line 72.

“Arms, and the man I sing, who, forced by Fate,
And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate,
Expell'd and exil'd, left the Trojan shore;
Long labours both by sea and land he bore.”

John Dryden

Aeneis, Book I, lines 1–4.
The Works of Virgil (1697)

“Men are but children of a larger growth;
Our appetites as apt to change as theirs,
And full as craving, too, and full as vain.”

John Dryden All for Love

Act IV, scene I
All for Love (1678)

“Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.”

John Dryden Amphitryon

Amphitryon (1690), Act III scene iii.

“O gracious God! how far have we
Profaned thy heavenly gift of poesy!”

John Dryden

To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killegrew (1686), lines 56–57.

“All empire is no more than power in trust.”

John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel

Pt. I line 411.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

“I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric…”

John Dryden

On "To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare: and what he hath left us” by Ben Jonson, in Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry (1692 - 1697) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2615

“A very merry, dancing, drinking,
Laughing, quaffing, and unthinkable time.”

John Dryden book Fables, Ancient and Modern

Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), The Secular Masque (1700), Lines 38–39.

“Reason to rule, mercy to forgive:
The first is law, the last prerogative.”

John Dryden book The Hind and the Panther

Pt. I, lines 261-262.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)

“Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.”

John Dryden

Epistle to Congreve (1693), line 19.

“Fool, not to know that love endures no tie,
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.”

John Dryden

Palamon and Arcite, book ii, line 758.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“A knockdown argument: 'tis but a word and a blow.”

John Dryden Amphitryon

Amphitryon (1690), Act I scene i.

“Not only hating David, but the king.”

John Dryden book The Hind and the Panther

Pt. I, line 512.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)

“Since ev’ry man who lives is born to die,
And none can boast sincere felicity,
With equal mind, what happens, let us bear,
Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care.
Like pilgrims, to th' appointed place we tend;
The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.”

John Dryden book Fables, Ancient and Modern

Palamon and Arcite.
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)

“Three poets, in three distant ages born,
Greece, Italy, and England did adorn.
The first in loftiness of thought surpassed;
The next, in majesty; in both the last.
The force of Nature could no further go.
To make a third, she joined the former two.”

John Dryden

Under Mr. Milton's Picture (1688).

“Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife,
Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.”

John Dryden book Fables, Ancient and Modern

Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Line 133.

“And doomed to death, though fated not to die.”

John Dryden book The Hind and the Panther

Pt. I, line 8.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)

“Men met each other with erected look,
The steps were higher that they took;
Friends to congratulate their friends made haste,
And long inveterate foes saluted as they passed.”

John Dryden

Threnodia Augustalis (1685), line 124-127.

“And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.”

John Dryden

Britannia Rediviva (1688), line 208.

“For pity melts the mind to love.”

John Dryden

Source: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 96.