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"And kind as kings upon their coronation day."
John Dryden / The Hind and the Panther. Part i. Line 271.
The Hind and the Panther. Part i. Line 271.
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"For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind."
John Dryden / The Hind and the Panther. Part iii. Line 2387.
The Hind and the Panther. Part iii. Line 2387.
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"But Shadwell never deviates into sense."
John Dryden / Mac Flecknoe. Line 20.
Mac Flecknoe. Line 20.
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"Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray."
John Dryden / Britannia Rediviva. Line 1.
Britannia Rediviva. Line 1.
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"And torture one poor word ten thousand ways."
John Dryden / Britannia Rediviva. Line 208.
Britannia Rediviva. Line 208.
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"Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace."
John Dryden / Epistle to Congreve. Line 19.
Epistle to Congreve. Line 19.
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"Be kind to my remains; and oh defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend!"
John Dryden / Epistle to Congreve. Line 72.
Epistle to Congreve. Line 72.
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"Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend."
John Dryden / Epistle to John Dryden of Chesterton. Line 92.
Epistle to John Dryden of Chesterton. Line 92.
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"Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line."
John Dryden / To the Memory of Mr. Oldham. Line 15.
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham. Line 15.
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"So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there."
John Dryden / Eleonora. Line 315.
Eleonora. Line 315.
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"Since heaven's eternal year is thine."
John Dryden / Elegy on Mrs. Killegrew. Line 15.
Elegy on Mrs. Killegrew. Line 15.
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"O gracious God! how far have we Profan'd thy heavenly gift of poesy!"
John Dryden / Elegy on Mrs. Killegrew. Line 56.
Elegy on Mrs. Killegrew. Line 56.
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"Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child."
John Dryden / Elegy on Mrs. Killegrew. Line 70.
Elegy on Mrs. Killegrew. Line 70.
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"He was exhal'd; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew."
John Dryden / On the Death of a very young Gentleman.
On the Death of a very young Gentleman.
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"Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two."
John Dryden / Under Mr. Milton's Picture.
Under Mr. Milton's Picture.
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"From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man."
John Dryden / A Song for St. Cecilia's Day. Line 11.
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day. Line 11.
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"None but the brave deserves the fair."
John Dryden / Alexander's Feast. Line 15.
Alexander's Feast. Line 15.
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"With ravish'd ears The monarch hears; Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres."
John Dryden / Alexander's Feast. Line 37.
Alexander's Feast. Line 37.
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"Bacchus, ever fair and ever young."
John Dryden / Alexander's Feast. Line 54.
Alexander's Feast. Line 54.
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"Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,-- Sweet is pleasure after pain."
John Dryden / Alexander's Feast. Line 58.
Alexander's Feast. Line 58.
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"Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain."
John Dryden / Alexander's Feast. Line 66.
Alexander's Feast. Line 66.
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"Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate, And welt'ring in his blood; Deserted, at his utmost need, By those his former bounty fed, On the bare earth expos'd he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes."
John Dryden / Alexander's Feast. Line 77.
Alexander's Feast. Line 77.
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"For pity melts the mind to love."
John Dryden / Alexander's Feast. Line 96.
Alexander's Feast. Line 96.
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"Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying. If all the world be worth the winning, Think, oh think it worth enjoying: Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee."
John Dryden / Alexander's Feast. Line 97.
Alexander's Feast. Line 97.
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"Sigh'd and look'd, and sigh'd again."
John Dryden / Alexander's Feast. Line 120.
Alexander's Feast. Line 120.
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"And, like another Helen, fir'd another Troy."
John Dryden / Alexander's Feast. Line 154.
Alexander's Feast. Line 154.
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"Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire."
John Dryden / Alexander's Feast. Line 160.
Alexander's Feast. Line 160.
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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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