John Dryden Quotes
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John Dryden Famous Quotes & Sayings
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One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.
How happy the lover,
How easy his chain,
How pleasing his pain,
How sweet to discover
He sighs not in vain.
How easy his chain,
How pleasing his pain,
How sweet to discover
He sighs not in vain.
He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes ...
Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind
Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind
Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.
Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there.
Discover the opinion of your enemies, which is commonly the truest; for they will give you no quarter, and allow nothing to complaisance.
'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Raw in the fields the rude militia swarms, Mouth without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence.
Night came, but unattended with repose.
Alone she came, no sleep their eyes to close.
Alone and black she came; no friendly stars arose.
Alone she came, no sleep their eyes to close.
Alone and black she came; no friendly stars arose.