John Dryden idézetek
John Dryden: Idézetek angolul
The Wild Gallant, act ii. scene. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
King Arthur (1691), Act II scene v, 'Song of Venus.
Forrás: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 158–159.
“They say everything in the world is good for something.”
Act III, scene 2.
The Spanish Friar (1681)
“And new-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care
Turn'd by a gentle fire and roasted rare.”
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book viii. Baucis and Philemon, Line 97.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Plots, true or false, are necessary things,
To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.”
Pt. I line 83-84.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
“But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be;
Within that circle none durst walk but he.”
The Tempest, Prologue.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“And kind as kings upon their coronation day.”
Pt. I, line 271.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
Mariage à la Mode, Act ii, scene 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Be kind to my remains; and oh defend,
Against your judgment, your departed friend!”
Epistle to Congreve (1693), line 72.
Aeneis, Book I, lines 1–4.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
“Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.”
Amphitryon (1690), Act III scene iii.
“O gracious God! how far have we
Profaned thy heavenly gift of poesy!”
To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killegrew (1686), lines 56–57.
“All empire is no more than power in trust.”
Pt. I line 411.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
On "To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare: and what he hath left us” by Ben Jonson, in Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry (1692 - 1697) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2615
“A very merry, dancing, drinking,
Laughing, quaffing, and unthinkable time.”
Forrás: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), The Secular Masque (1700), Lines 38–39.
“Reason to rule, mercy to forgive:
The first is law, the last prerogative.”
Pt. I, lines 261-262.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“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)
“A knockdown argument: 'tis but a word and a blow.”
Amphitryon (1690), Act I scene i.
“Not only hating David, but the king.”
Pt. I, line 512.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
Under Mr. Milton's Picture (1688).
“Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife,
Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.”
Forrás: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Line 133.
“And doomed to death, though fated not to die.”
Pt. I, line 8.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“For pity melts the mind to love.”
Forrás: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 96.