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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

“With how much ease believe we what we wish!”

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John Dryden All for Love

Cleopatra in Act IV, scene I
All for Love (1678)

“Of ancient race by birth, but nobler yet
In his own worth.”

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John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel

Pt. I, lines 900–901.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

“War seldom enters but where wealth allures.”

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John Dryden livre The Hind and the Panther

Pt. II, line 706.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)

“Too black for heav'n, and yet too white for hell.”

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John Dryden livre The Hind and the Panther

Pt. I, line 343.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)

“Made still a blund'ring kind of melody;
Spurred boldly on, and dashed through thick and thin,
Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in.
Free from all meaning, whether good or bad,
And in one word, heroically mad.”

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John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel

Pt. II, line 413.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

“Behold him setting in his western skies,
The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise.”

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John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel

Pt. I line 268.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

“Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command
Some peaceful province in acrostic land.
There thou mayst wings display and altars raise,
And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.”

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Source: Mac Flecknoe (1682), l. 205–208.

“The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes
And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.”

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John Dryden livre Fables, Ancient and Modern

Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Line 107.

“The wretched have no friends.”

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John Dryden All for Love

Act III, scene I
All for Love (1678)

“Large was his wealth, but larger was his heart.”

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John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel

Pt. I, line 826.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

“Your case no tame expedients will afford,
Resolve on death or conquest by the sword,
Which for no less a stake than life you draw,
And self-defence is Nature's eldest law.”

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John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel

Pt. I, lines 455–458.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

“Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.”

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John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel

Pt. I, line 967.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

“Railing in other men may be a crime,
But ought to pass for mere instinct in him:
Instinct he follows and no further knows,
For to write verse with him is to transpose.”

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John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel

Pt. II, line 440.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

“Love is lord of all, and is in all the same.”

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John Dryden

Georgic III, lines 380.
The Works of Virgil (1697)

“What precious drops are those
Which silently each other's track pursue,
Bright as young diamonds in their infant dew?”

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John Dryden The Conquest of Granada

Part 2, Act III, scene i.
The Conquest of Granada (1669-1670)

“Since heaven's eternal year is thine.”

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John Dryden

To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killegrew (1686), line 15.

“Possess your soul with patience.”

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John Dryden livre The Hind and the Panther

Pt. III, line 839.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)

“Better one suffer, than a nation grieve.”

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John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel

Pt. I line 416.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

“Whate’er he did was done with so much ease,
In him alone 't was natural to please.”

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John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel

Pt. I line 27-28.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

“Truth is the foundation of all knowledge, and the cement of all societies.”

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The Character of Polybius (1692)

“For present joys are more to flesh and blood
Than a dull prospect of a distant good.”

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John Dryden livre The Hind and the Panther

Pt. III, lines 364–365.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)

“Happy who in his verse can gently steer
From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.”

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The Art of Poetry, canto i, line 75.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“With ravished ears
The monarch hears;
Assumes the god,
Affects the nod,
And seems to shake the spheres.”

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Source: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 37–41.

“The gates of hell are open night and day;
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this the task and mighty labor lies.”

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John Dryden

Aeneis, Book VI, lines 192–195.
The Works of Virgil (1697)

“Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped;
And they have kept it since by being dead.”

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John Dryden The Conquest of Granada

Epilogue.
The Conquest of Granada (1669-1670)

“For truth has such a face and such a mien
As to be loved needs only to be seen.”

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John Dryden livre The Hind and the Panther

Pt. I, lines 33–34.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)

“Genius must be born, and never can be taught.”

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Epistle to Congreve (1693), line 60.

“The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.”

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John Dryden

St. 4.
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day http://www.englishverse.com/poems/a_song_for_st_cecilias_day_1687 (1687)

“Drinking is the soldier’s pleasure;
Rich the treasure;
Sweet the pleasure;
Sweet is pleasure after pain.”

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John Dryden

Source: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 57–60.

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