John Dryden Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.

  John Dryden

  I Miss You, Missing You, Long Distance Relationship

  John Dryden (1762). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: In Six Volumes”, p.196

• She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold even in the summer of her age.

  John Dryden

  Beauty, Summer, Flower

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.3032, Delphi Classics

• How blessed is he, who leads a country life, Unvex'd with anxious cares, and void of strife! Who studying peace, and shunning civil rage, Enjoy'd his youth, and now enjoys his age: All who deserve his love, he makes his own; And, to be lov'd himself, needs only to be known.

  John Dryden

  Life, Country, Peace

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.312, Delphi Classics

• 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

  Nature, Two, Age

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.139

• Arts and sciences in one and the same century have arrived at great perfection; and no wonder, since every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies; the work then, being pushed on by many hands, must go forward.

  John Dryden

  Art, Hard Work, Science

  John Dryden, Keith Walker (2003). “The Major Works”, p.79, Oxford University Press, USA

• For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.

  John Dryden

  Age, Taste, Youth

  John Dryden (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden. With Illustrations by John Franklin”, p.260

• Inspire the Vocal Brass, Inspire;
  The World is past its Infant Age:
  Arms and Honour,
  Arms and Honour,
  Set the Martial Mind on Fire,
  And kindle Manly Rage.

  John Dryden

  War, Past, Fire

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.146

• One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.

  John Dryden

  Sublime, Age, Noble

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.2797, Delphi Classics

• Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age, When no man dies for love, but on the stage.

  John Dryden

  Love, Men, Heaven

  John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: With Life and Critical Dissertation”, p.138

• Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi in Christendome) that almost a new Nature has been revealed to us? that more errours of the School have been detected, more useful Experiments in Philosophy have been made, more Noble Secrets in Opticks, Medicine, Anatomy, Astronomy, discover'd, than in all those credulous and doting Ages from Aristotle to us? So true it is that nothing spreads more fast than Science, when rightly and generally cultivated.

  John Dryden

  Philosophy, School, Science

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.4055, Delphi Classics

• Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.

  John Dryden

  Age, Genius, Study

  'An Essay of Dramatic Poesy' (1668)

• Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

  John Dryden

  Birthday, Strong, Age

• Virgil and Horace [were] the severest writers of the severest age.

  John Dryden

  Age

  1677 'The Author's Apology for Heroic Poetry and Heroic Licence', an essay prefacing State of Innocence, a libretto based on Paradise Lost.

• What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

  John Dryden

  Birthday, Years, Long

• These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.

  John Dryden

  Doubt, Age, Care

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden now first collected ...”, p.426

• Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.

  John Dryden

  Thinking, Age, Creeps

  Juvenal, John Dryden, Nahum Tate, Persius, Richard Duke (1713). “The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis: and of Aulus Persius Flaccus”, p.150

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