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"He rais'd a mortal to the skies, She drew an angel down."
John Dryden / Alexander's Feast. Line 169.
Alexander's Feast. Line 169.
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"A very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time."
John Dryden / The Secular Masque. Line 40.
The Secular Masque. Line 40.
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"Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury."
John Dryden / Palamon and Arcite. Book ii. Line 758.
Palamon and Arcite. Book ii. Line 758.
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"For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss."
John Dryden / The Cock and the Fox. Line 452.
The Cock and the Fox. Line 452.
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"And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind."
John Dryden / Theodore and Honoria. Line 227.
Theodore and Honoria. Line 227.
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"Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet."
John Dryden / Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 1.
Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 1.
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"When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!"
John Dryden / Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 41.
Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 41.
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"He trudg'd along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought."
John Dryden / Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 84.
Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 84.
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"The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise."
John Dryden / Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 107.
Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 107.
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"Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife, Soon taught the sweet civilities of life."
John Dryden / Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 133.
Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 133.
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"She hugg'd the offender, and forgave the offence: Sex to the last."
John Dryden / Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 367.
Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 367.
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"And raw in fields the rude militia swarms, Mouths without hands; maintain'd at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence; Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever but in times of need at hand."
John Dryden / Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 400.
Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 400.
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"Of seeming arms to make a short essay, Then hasten to be drunk,--the business of the day."
John Dryden / Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 407.
Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 407.
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"Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe."
John Dryden / The Art of Poetry. Canto i. Line 75.
The Art of Poetry. Canto i. Line 75.
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"Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own; He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day."
John Dryden / Imitation of Horace. Book iii. Ode 29, Line 65.
Imitation of Horace. Book iii. Ode 29, Line 65.
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"Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour."
John Dryden / Imitation of Horace. Book iii. Ode 29, Line 71.
Imitation of Horace. Book iii. Ode 29, Line 71.
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"I can enjoy her while she 's kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes the wings and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away."
John Dryden / Imitation of Horace. Book iii. Ode 29, Line 81.
Imitation of Horace. Book iii. Ode 29, Line 81.
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"And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm."
John Dryden / Imitation of Horace. Book iii. Ode 29, Line 87.
Imitation of Horace. Book iii. Ode 29, Line 87.
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"Arms and the man I sing, who, forced by fate And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate."
John Dryden / Virgil, Æneid, Line 1.
Virgil, Æneid, Line 1.
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"And new-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care Turn'd by a gentle fire and roasted rare."
John Dryden / Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book viii. Baucis and Philemon, Line 97.
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book viii. Baucis and Philemon, Line 97.
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"Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,-- As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas."
John Dryden / Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book xv. The Worship of Æsculapius, Line 155.
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book xv. The Worship of Æsculapius, Line 155.
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"She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, Can draw you to her with a single hair."
John Dryden / Persius. Satire v. Line 246.
Persius. Satire v. Line 246.
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"Look round the habitable world: how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue."
John Dryden / Juvenal. Satire x.
Juvenal. Satire x.
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"Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch."
John Dryden / Mariage à la Mode. Act ii. Sc. 1.
Mariage à la Mode. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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"Thespis, the first professor of our art, At country wakes sung ballads from a cart."
John Dryden / Prologue to Lee's Sophonisba.
Prologue to Lee's Sophonisba.
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"Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below."
John Dryden / All for Love. Prologue.
All for Love. Prologue.
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"Men are but children of a larger growth."
John Dryden / All for Love. Act iv. Sc. 1.
All for Love. Act iv. Sc. 1.
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"Your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me."
John Dryden / The Maiden Queen. Act i. Sc. 2.
The Maiden Queen. Act i. Sc. 2.
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"I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty."
John Dryden / The Maiden Queen. Act iii. Sc. 1.
The Maiden Queen. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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"But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he."
John Dryden / The Tempest. Prologue.
The Tempest. Prologue.
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"I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran."
John Dryden / The Conquest of Granada. Part i. Act i. Sc. 1.
The Conquest of Granada. Part i. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"Forgiveness to the injured does belong; But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong."
John Dryden / The Conquest of Granada. Part ii. Act i. Sc. 2.
The Conquest of Granada. Part ii. Act i. Sc. 2.
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"What precious drops are those Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their infant dew?"
John Dryden / The Conquest of Granada. Part ii. Act iii. Sc. 1.
The Conquest of Granada. Part ii. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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"Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead."
John Dryden / The Conquest of Granada. Epilogue.
The Conquest of Granada. Epilogue.
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"Death in itself is nothing; but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where."
John Dryden / Aurengzebe. Act iv. Sc. 1.
Aurengzebe. Act iv. Sc. 1.
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"When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow 's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. Strange cozenage! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give."
John Dryden / Aurengzebe. Act iv. Sc. 1.
Aurengzebe. Act iv. Sc. 1.
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"'T is not for nothing that we life pursue; It pays our hopes with something still that 's new."
John Dryden / Aurengzebe. Act iv. Sc. 1.
Aurengzebe. Act iv. Sc. 1.
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"All delays are dangerous in war."
John Dryden / Tyrannic Love. Act i. Sc. 1.
Tyrannic Love. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are."
John Dryden / Tyrannic Love. Act iv. Sc. 1.
Tyrannic Love. Act iv. Sc. 1.
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"Whatever is, is in its causes just."
John Dryden / OEdipus. Act iii. Sc. 1.
OEdipus. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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"His hair just grizzled, As in a green old age."
John Dryden / OEdipus. Act iii. Sc. 1.
OEdipus. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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"Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long,-- Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner. Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years, Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more; Till like a clock worn out with eating time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still."
John Dryden / OEdipus. Act iv. Sc. 1.
OEdipus. Act iv. Sc. 1.
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"She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold even in the summer of her age."
John Dryden / OEdipus. Act iv. Sc. 1.
OEdipus. Act iv. Sc. 1.
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"There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen know."
John Dryden / The Spanish Friar. Act ii. Sc. 1.
The Spanish Friar. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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"Lord of humankind."
John Dryden / The Spanish Friar. Act ii. Sc. 1.
The Spanish Friar. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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"Bless the hand that gave the blow."
John Dryden / The Spanish Friar. Act ii. Sc. 1.
The Spanish Friar. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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"Second thoughts, they say, are best."
John Dryden / The Spanish Friar. Act ii. Sc. 2.
The Spanish Friar. Act ii. Sc. 2.
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"He 's a sure card."
John Dryden / The Spanish Friar. Act ii. Sc. 2.
The Spanish Friar. Act ii. Sc. 2.
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"As sure as a gun."
John Dryden / The Spanish Friar. Act iii. Sc. 2.
The Spanish Friar. Act iii. Sc. 2.
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"Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven, Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest."
John Dryden / The Spanish Friar. Act v. Sc. 2.
The Spanish Friar. Act v. Sc. 2.
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