John Dryden idézetek
John Dryden: Idézetek angolul
“Than a successive title long and dark,
Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark.”
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.”
Forrás: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Lines 1–2.
“All have not the gift of martyrdom.”
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.
Preface to the Fables.
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)
“When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!”
Forrás: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Line 41.
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.”
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.”
Pt. III, line 2387.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her.”
Preface to the Fables.
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)
“T is not for nothing that we life pursue;
It pays our hopes with something still that's new.”
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.”
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.