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"This is the porcelain clay of humankind."
John Dryden / Don Sebastian. Act i. Sc. 1.
Don Sebastian. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"I have a soul that like an ample shield Can take in all, and verge enough for more."
John Dryden / Don Sebastian. Act i. Sc. 1.
Don Sebastian. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"A knock-down argument: 't is but a word and a blow."
John Dryden / Amphitryon. Act i. Sc. 1.
Amphitryon. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"Whistling to keep myself from being afraid."
John Dryden / Amphitryon. Act iii. Sc. 1.
Amphitryon. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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"The true Amphitryon."
John Dryden / Amphitryon. Act iv. Sc. 1.
Amphitryon. Act iv. Sc. 1.
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"The spectacles of books."
John Dryden / Essay on Dramatic Poetry.
Essay on Dramatic Poetry.
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"The English Bible,--a book which if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power."
Thomas B. Macaulay / On John Dryden. 1828.
On John Dryden. 1828.
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"His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar."
Thomas B. Macaulay / On John Dryden. 1828.
On John Dryden. 1828.
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"A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who succeeded only in an inferior department of his art, but who in that department succeeded pre-eminently."
Thomas B. Macaulay / On John Dryden. 1828.
On John Dryden. 1828.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain