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• He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.

  John Dryden

  Fountain, Good Sense, Perpetual

  1700 Of Chaucer. Fables Ancient and Modern, preface.

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• So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.

  John Dryden

  Lying, Doe, Spiders

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.96, Pearson Education

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• Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

  John Dryden

  Tails, Stubborn, Lions

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.22, Pearson Education

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• You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

  John Dryden

  Sight, Water, Crooked

  John Dryden (1985). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIII: Plays: All for Love, Oedipus, Troilus and Cressida”, p.42, Univ of California Press

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• The World to Bacon does not only owe it's present knowledge, but its future too.

  John Dryden

  Atheism, Doe, World

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.118

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• By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.

  John Dryden

  Art, Nature, Tails

  'Annus Mirabilis' (1667) st. 155

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• 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

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• Calms appear, when Storms are past;
  Love will have his Hour at last:
  Nature is my kindly Care;
  Mars destroys, and I repair;
  Take me, take me, while you may,
  Venus comes not ev'ry Day.

  John Dryden

  Love, Past, Storm

  John Dryden (1784). “The poetical works of John Dryden”, p.233

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• As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark; The relics of mankind, secure at rest, Oped every window to receive the guest, And the fair bearer of the message bless'd.

  John Dryden

  Long, Ark, Earth

  John Dryden, Ludwig GANTTER (1854). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden, with Biographical and Critical Notices, Edited by Ludwig Gantter”, p.328

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• He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

  John Dryden

  Horse, Moving, Pride

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• 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

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• He who proposes to be an author should first be a student.

  John Dryden

  Firsts, Students, Authorship

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• 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

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• Such subtle Covenants shall be made,Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade.

  John Dryden

  Peace, War, Self

  John Dryden, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of John Dryden”

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• That gloomy outside, like a rusty chest, contains the shoring treasure of a soul resolved and brave.

  John Dryden

  Brave, Soul, Treasure

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• So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.

  John Dryden

  God, Men, Devil

  John Dryden (1701). “Poems on Various Occasions: And Translations from Several Authors”, p.10

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• Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,- Sweet is pleasure after pain.

  John Dryden

  Sweet, Pain, Treasure

  'Alexander's Feast' (1697) l. 57

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• Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.

  John Dryden

  Soul, Desire, Rage

  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.212

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• He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.

  John Dryden

  Two, Faces, Admiration

  'Essay on the Dramatic Poetry of the Last Age' (1672)

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• Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words.

  John Dryden

  May, Poet, Elegant

  John Dryden (1830). “Virgil: the Eclogues”, p.231

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• He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . . He was naturally learn'd; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there. . . . He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating in to clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some occasion is presented to him.

  John Dryden

  Book, Men, Soul

  'An Essay of Dramatic Poesy' (1668) on Shakespeare

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• Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

  John Dryden

  Birthday, Long, World

  Juvenal, John Dryden, Nahum Tate, Persius, Richard Duke (1713). “The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis: and of Aulus Persius Flaccus”, p.210

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• Music, Music for a while Shall all your cares beguile. Alexander's Feast

  John Dryden

  Care

  1692 Oedipus (with Nathaniel Lee).

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• Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.

  John Dryden

  Life, Ease, Prodigals

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 165

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• A thing well said will be wit in all languages.

  John Dryden

  Language, Well Said, Wit

  'An Essay of Dramatic Poesy' (1668)

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