John Dryden idézetek
John Dryden: Idézetek angolul
John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel
Pt. I, lines 230–239.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel
Pt. I, lines 554–557.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
“Than a successive title long and dark,
Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark.”
John Dryden könyv The Hind and the Panther
Pt 1, line 301.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit,
The power of beauty I remember yet.”
John Dryden könyv Fables, Ancient and Modern
Forrás: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Lines 1–2.
“Here lies my wife:here let her lie!
Now she's at rest, and so am I.”
Epitaph, intended for his wife
“All have not the gift of martyrdom.”
John Dryden könyv The Hind and the Panther
Pt. II, line 59.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
Aeneis, Book VI, lines 374–377.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
Essay of Dramatick Poesie (1668) Full text online http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/drampoet.html.
“Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.”
To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killegrew (1686), line 70.
The Indian Emperor (1667), Act III, scene ii.
John Dryden könyv Fables, Ancient and Modern
Preface to the Fables.
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)
“When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!”
John Dryden könyv Fables, Ancient and Modern
Forrás: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Line 41.
John Dryden könyv Fables, Ancient and Modern
The Cock and the Fox line 445 - 457.
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)
Georgic II, lines 688–691.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
“All human things are subject to decay,
And, when fate summons, monarchs must obey.”
Forrás: Mac Flecknoe (1682), l. 1–2.
“Sound the trumpets; beat the drums…
Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes.”
Forrás: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 50–51.
“A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.”
John Dryden könyv Fables, Ancient and Modern
Preface to the Fables.
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)
Sylvae (London, 1685), Translation of the Latter Part of the Third Book of Lucretius, "Against the Fear of Death", pp. 61–62.
“For those whom God to ruin has design'd,
He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.”
John Dryden könyv The Hind and the Panther
Pt. III, line 2387.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“The Wild Gallant, act ii. scene. 1.”
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her.”
John Dryden könyv Fables, Ancient and Modern
Preface to the Fables.
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)
John Dryden könyv The Hind and the Panther
Pt. I, lines 462–465.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“T is not for nothing that we life pursue;
It pays our hopes with something still that's new.”
John Dryden Aureng-zebe
Aureng-Zebe (1676), Act IV, scene i.
“Like a led victim, to my death I'll go,
And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow.”
Act II, scene 1.
The Spanish Friar (1681)
“And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd
For one fair female, lost him half the kind.”
Theodore and Honoria, line 227.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Thus in a pageant-show a plot is made;
And peace itself is war in masquerade.”
John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel
Pt. I, lines 750–751.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
Forrás: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 77–83.
Forrás: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 66–70.