John Dryden Quotes About Harmony

Quotes about: Harmony

• From Harmony, from heav'nly Harmony. This universal Frame began.

  John Dryden

  Science, Harmony, Universal

  John Dryden (2013). “Selected Poems”, p.83, Courier Corporation

• As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes.

  John Dryden

  Music, Harmony, Notes

• What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or reject; to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose.

  John Dryden

  Running, Giving, Judgment

  'Fables Ancient and Modern' (1700) preface

• Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution.

  John Dryden

  Beauty, Constitution, Harmony

  John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author”, p.400

• From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, 'Arise, ye more than dead!' Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry, In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. 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

  Men, Order, Voice

  'A Song for St Cecilia's Day' (1687) st. 1

• Virgil is so exact in every word, that none can be changed but for a worse; nor any one removed from its place, but the harmony will be altered. He pretends sometimes to trip; but it is only to make you think him in danger of a fall, when he is most secure.

  John Dryden

  Fall, Thinking, Make You Think

  Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, Sir Joshua Reynolds, John Dryden, Alexander Pope (1783). “The art of painting of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy”, p.176

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