Quotes from book
The Hind and the Panther
The Hind and the Panther: A Poem, in Three Parts is an allegory in heroic couplets by John Dryden. At some 2600 lines it is much the longest of Dryden's poems, translations excepted, and perhaps the most controversial. The critic Margaret Doody has called it "the great, the undeniable, sui generis poem of the Restoration era…It is its own kind of poem, it cannot be repeated ."
“T' abhor the makers, and their laws approve,
Is to hate traitors and the treason love.”
Pt. III, lines 706–707.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“So over violent, or over civil,
That every man with him was God or Devil.”
Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 557.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“Too black for heav'n, and yet too white for hell.”
Pt. I, line 343.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“For present joys are more to flesh and blood
Than a dull prospect of a distant good.”
Pt. III, lines 364–365.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“For truth has such a face and such a mien
As to be loved needs only to be seen.”
Pt. I, lines 33–34.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“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)
“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)
Pt. I, lines 462–465.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.”
Pt. I, line 645. Compare: Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth: "A Christian is God Almighty’s gentleman"; Edward Young, Night Thoughts, Night iv, line 788, "A Christian is the highest style of man".
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense
Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.”
Pt. I, line 868.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“Of all the tyrannies on human kind
The worst is that which persecutes the mind.”
Pt. I, lines 239–240.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“Reason to rule, mercy to forgive:
The first is law, the last prerogative.”
Pt. I, lines 261-262.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
