Source: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 97–106. <br class="br">Context: Softly sweet, in Lydian measures,<br>Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures.<br>War, he sung, is toil and trouble;<br>Honor but an empty bubble;<br>Never ending, still beginning,<br>Fighting still, and still destroying.<br>If all the world be worth thy winning.<br>Think, oh think it worth enjoying:<br>Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee,<br>Take the good the gods provide thee.
John Dryden: Quotes about love
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“Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are.”
Variant: Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are.
“Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.”
John Dryden book Fables, Ancient and Modern
Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), The Secular Masque (1700), Line 82.
“T' abhor the makers, and their laws approve,
Is to hate traitors and the treason love.”
John Dryden book The Hind and the Panther
Pt. III, lines 706–707.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“Love is lord of all, and is in all the same.”
Georgic III, lines 380.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
“For truth has such a face and such a mien
As to be loved needs only to be seen.”
John Dryden book The Hind and the Panther
Pt. I, lines 33–34.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit,
The power of beauty I remember yet.”
John Dryden book Fables, Ancient and Modern
Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Lines 1–2.
“When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!”
John Dryden book Fables, Ancient and Modern
Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Line 41.
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)
King Arthur (1691), Act II scene v, 'Song of Venus.
“Fool, not to know that love endures no tie,
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.”
Palamon and Arcite, book ii, line 758.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“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.
“For pity melts the mind to love.”
Source: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 96.
“Love conquers all, and we must yield to Love.”
Pastoral X, lines 98–99.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
“Calms appear, when storms are past,
Love will have its hour at last.”
John Dryden book Fables, Ancient and Modern
Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), The Secular Masque (1700), Lines 72–73.