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John Dryden, né le 19 août 1631 à Aldwincle, Northamptonshire, et mort le 12 mai 1700 , est un poète et un dramaturge anglais ayant exercé une forte influence au XVIIe siècle. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. août 1631 – 1. mai 1700
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John Dryden: Citations en anglais

“The trumpet shall be heard on high,
The dead shall live, the living die,
And musick shall untune the Sky.”

Grand Chorus.
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day http://www.englishverse.com/poems/a_song_for_st_cecilias_day_1687 (1687)
Source: The Major Works
Contexte: So, when the last and dreadful Hour
This crumbling Pageant shall devour,
The trumpet shall be heard on high,
The dead shall live, the living die,
And musick shall untune the Sky.

“Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.”

John Dryden livre The Hind and the Panther

Pt. III, line 763.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)

“But far more numerous was the herd of such,
Who think too little, and who talk too much.”

John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel

Pt. I, lines 532–533. Compare Matthew Prior, Upon a Passage in the Scaligerana, "They always talk who never think".
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

“What passion cannot Music raise and quell?”

St. 2.
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day http://www.englishverse.com/poems/a_song_for_st_cecilias_day_1687 (1687)
Variante: What passion cannot Music raise and quell?

“The trumpet's loud clangor
Excites us to arms.”

St. 3.
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day http://www.englishverse.com/poems/a_song_for_st_cecilias_day_1687 (1687)

“She hugged the offender, and forgave the offense:
Sex to the last.”

John Dryden livre Fables, Ancient and Modern

Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Lines 367–368.

“Jealousy, the jaundice of the soul.”

John Dryden livre The Hind and the Panther

Pt. III, line 73.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)

“Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are.”

Variante: Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are.

“Your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.”

John Dryden The Maiden Queen

The Maiden Queen, Act i, scene 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Thespis, the first professor of our art,
At country wakes sung ballads from a cart.”

Prologue to Lee's Sophonisba.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.”

John Dryden livre Fables, Ancient and Modern

Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), The Secular Masque (1700), Line 82.

“Lord of yourself, uncumbered with a wife.”

Epistle to John Driden of Chesterton (1700), line 18.

“And, like another Helen, fir'd another Troy.”

Source: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 154.

“T' abhor the makers, and their laws approve,
Is to hate traitors and the treason love.”

John Dryden livre The Hind and the Panther

Pt. III, lines 706–707.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)

“All, all of a piece throughout:
Thy chase had a beast in view;
Thy wars brought nothing about;
Thy lovers were all untrue.
'Tis well an old age is out,
And time to begin a new.”

John Dryden livre Fables, Ancient and Modern

Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), The Secular Masque (1700), Lines 86–91.

“Like you, an alien in a land unknown,
I learn to pity woes so like my own.”

Aeneis, Book I, lines 889–890.
The Works of Virgil (1697)

“Above any Greek or Roman name.”

Upon the Death of Lord Hastings, line 76. Compare: "Above all Greek, above all Roman fame"; Alexander Pope, Epistle I, Book 2, line 26.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“… not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest.”

"Plutarch's Lives," Vol 1, Barnes & Noble Inc., 2006, Lysander p. 646
Translation from Greek originalː "τὸ ἀληθὲς οὐ φύσει τοῦ ψεύδους κρεῖττον ἡγούμενος, ἀλλ' ἑκατέρου τῇ χρείᾳ τὴν τιμὴν ὁρίζων."

“Can heav'nly minds such high resentment show,
Or exercise their spite in human woe?”

Aeneis, Book I, lines 17–18.
The Works of Virgil (1697)

“So over violent, or over civil,
That every man with him was God or Devil.”

John Dryden livre The Hind and the Panther

Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 557.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)

“By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid Art,
Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow.”

John Dryden Annus Mirabilis

Annus Mirabilis (1667), stanza 155.

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