John Dryden Quotes About Slaves

Quotes about: Slaves

• In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one to one was cursedly confin'd: When Nature prompted, and no Law deni'd Promiscuous use of concubine and bride; Then, Israel's monarch, after Heaven's own heart, His vigorous warmth did variously impart To wives and slaves: and, wide as his command, Scatter'd his Maker's image through the land.

  John Dryden

  Heart, Men, Israel

  John Dryden, “Absalom And Achitophel”

• Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.

  John Dryden

  Riches, Slave, Claims

• Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.

  John Dryden

  Brave, Unjust, Ruins

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden, with notes and a life of the author by sir W. Scott”, p.325

• If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.

  John Dryden

  Art, Vices, Slave

• To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free,
  These are imperial arts.

  John Dryden

  Art, Proud, Slave

  John Dryden, C. B., Esquire Charles BATHURST (1852). “Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]”, p.312

• Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom pleasd to bless.

  John Dryden

  Men, Office, Proud

  John Dryden (1859). “The poetical works of John Dryden”, p.177

• Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.

  John Dryden

  Literature, Slave

  'The Hind and the Panther' (1687) pt. 2, l. 285

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