Source: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 77–83.
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John Dryden Quotes
Source: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 66–70.
The Works of Virgil translated into English verse by Mr. Dryden, Volume II (London, 1709), "Dedication", p. 213.
“He was exhaled; his great Creator drew
His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.”
On the Death of a Very Young Gentlemen (1700).
“He trudged along unknowing what he sought,
And whistled as he went, for want of thought.”
John Dryden book Fables, Ancient and Modern
Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Lines 84-85.
“A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.”
John Dryden book Religio Laici
Religio Laici (1682), Preface.
“Ill habits gather by unseen degrees —
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book XV, The Worship of Aesculapius (1700), lines 155–156.
“Forgiveness to the injured does belong;
But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.”
John Dryden The Conquest of Granada
Part 2, Act I, scene ii.
The Conquest of Granada (1669-1670)
“Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense
Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.”
John Dryden book The Hind and the Panther
Pt. I, line 868.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
Source: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 167–170.
“Of all the tyrannies on human kind
The worst is that which persecutes the mind.”
John Dryden book The Hind and the Panther
Pt. I, lines 239–240.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty.”
The Maiden Queen, Act iii, scene 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Of seeming arms to make a short essay,
Then hasten to be drunk — the business of the day.”
John Dryden book Fables, Ancient and Modern
Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Lines 407–408.
“Bacchus, ever fair and ever young.”
Source: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 54.
“Wit will shine
Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.”
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham, line 15.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
John Dryden book Fables, Ancient and Modern
Preface to the Fables http://www.bartleby.com/39/25.html <br class="br">Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)
John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel
Pt. I, lines 197–199. Compare Knolles, History (under a portrait of Mustapha I): "Greatnesse on Goodnesse loves to slide, not stand,/ And leaves, for Fortune’s ice, Vertue’s ferme land".
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
“The sword within the scabbard keep,
And let mankind agree.”
John Dryden book Fables, Ancient and Modern
Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), The Secular Masque (1700), Lines 61–62.
“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)
“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)
“Be kind to my remains; and oh defend,
Against your judgment, your departed friend!”
Epistle to Congreve (1693), line 72.
Aeneis, Book I, lines 1–4.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
“Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.”
Amphitryon (1690), Act III scene iii.
“O gracious God! how far have we
Profaned thy heavenly gift of poesy!”
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)
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)
