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"Above any Greek or Roman name."
John Dryden / Upon the Death of Lord Hastings. Line 76.
Upon the Death of Lord Hastings. Line 76.
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"And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted Jove, Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand."
John Dryden / Annus Mirabilis. Stanza 39.
Annus Mirabilis. Stanza 39.
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"Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone 't was natural to please."
John Dryden / Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 27.
Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 27.
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"A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms."
John Dryden / Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 156.
Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 156.
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"Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide."
John Dryden / Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 163.
Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 163.
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"And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son."
John Dryden / Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 169.
Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 169.
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"Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the state."
John Dryden / Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 174.
Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 174.
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"And heaven had wanted one immortal song."
John Dryden / Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 197.
Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 197.
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"But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land."
John Dryden / Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 198.
Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 198.
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"The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!"
John Dryden / Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 238.
Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 238.
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"Behold him setting in his western skies, The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise."
John Dryden / Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 268.
Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 268.
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"Than a successive title long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark."
John Dryden / Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 301.
Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 301.
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"Not only hating David, but the king."
John Dryden / Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 512.
Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 512.
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"Who think too little, and who talk too much."
John Dryden / Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 534.
Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 534.
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"A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon."
John Dryden / Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 545.
Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 545.
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"So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was God or Devil."
John Dryden / Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 557.
Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 557.
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"His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen."
John Dryden / Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 645.
Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 645.
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"Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence."
John Dryden / Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 868.
Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 868.
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"Beware the fury of a patient man."
John Dryden / Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 1005.
Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 1005.
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"Made still a blund'ring kind of melody; Spurr'd boldly on, and dashed through thick and thin, Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in."
John Dryden / Absalom and Achitophel. Part ii. Line 413.
Absalom and Achitophel. Part ii. Line 413.
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"For every inch that is not fool is rogue."
John Dryden / Absalom and Achitophel. Part ii. Line 463.
Absalom and Achitophel. Part ii. Line 463.
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"Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd."
John Dryden / Threnodia Augustalis. Line 124.
Threnodia Augustalis. Line 124.
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"For truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be lov'd needs only to be seen."
John Dryden / The Hind and the Panther. Part i. Line 33.
The Hind and the Panther. Part i. Line 33.
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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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