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Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original.

John Dryden

Matter, Inquiring, Imitation

John Dryden (1800). “The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected: with Notes and Illustrations; an Acount of the Life and Writing of the Author, Grounded on Original and Authentick Documents; and a Collection of His Letters, the Greater Part of which Has Never Before Been Published”, p.323

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The blushing beauties of a modest maid.

John Dryden

Maids, Blushing, Modest

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.191

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Raw in the fields the rude militia swarms, Mouth without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence.

John Dryden

Military, War, Hands

John Dryden (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.143

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Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within.

John Dryden

Eden, Paradise, Sin

John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.2848, Delphi Classics

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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

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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

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The first is the law, the last prerogative.

John Dryden

Law, Literature, Lasts

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Even victors are by victories undone.

John Dryden

Victory, Undone

Epistle 'To my honoured kinsman John Driden' l. 164

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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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The people have a right supreme
To make their kings, for Kings are made for them.
All Empire is no more than Pow'r in Trust,
Which when resum'd, can be no longer just.
Successionm for the general good design'd,
In its own wrong a Nation cannot bind.

John Dryden

Kings, People, Design

John Dryden (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle.

John Dryden

Kind, Imitation, Cattle

Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, Sir Joshua Reynolds, John Dryden, Alexander Pope (1783). “The art of painting of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy”, p.166

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For granting we have sinned, and that the offence
Of man is made against Omnipotence,
Some price that bears proportion must be paid,
And infinite with infinite be weighed.

John Dryden

Men, Omnipotence, Bears

John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.194

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My love's a noble madness.

John Dryden

Love, Noble, Madness

'All for Love' (1678) act 2, sc. 1

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Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.

John Dryden

Flesh, Red, Way

John Dryden (1755). “The Duke of Guise. A tragedy. Acted by their Majesties Servants. Written by Mr. Dryden, and Mr. Lee”, p.267

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Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

John Dryden

Fortune, Ill

John Dryden (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.143

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When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon
But small, appear most long and terrible;
So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads,
Our apprehensions shoot beyond all bounds,
Owls, Ravens, Crickets seem the watch of death,
Nature's worst Vermine scare her God-like Sons.
Ecchoes the very leavings of a Voice,
Grow babling Ghosts, and call us to our Graves:
Each Mole-hill thought swells to a huge Olympus,
While we fantastick Dreamers heave and puff,
And sweat with an Imagination's weight.

John Dryden

Fear, Fate, Son

"Dramatik Works".

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A coward is the kindest animal;
'Tis the most forgiving creature in a fight.

John Dryden

Fighting, Animal, Forgiving

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My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.

John Dryden

Heart, Hands, Guilt

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.94

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For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

John Dryden

Conformity, Conform, Martyrdom

John Dryden (1767). “THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN, Esq; Containing All His ORIGINAL POEMS, TALES, AND TRANSLATIONS, IN FOUR VOLUMES.: VOLUME THE SECOND”, p.31

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

John Dryden

Life, Death, Nature

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Restless at home, and ever prone to range.

John Dryden

Travel, Home, Restless

John Dryden (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir”, p.56

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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

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For danger levels man and brute And all are fellows in their need.

John Dryden

Men, Needs, Levels

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Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.

John Dryden

Society, Politics, Ruins

Absalom and Achitophel pt. 1, l. 173 (1681)

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

John Dryden

Music, Harmony, Notes

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Born: August 9, 1631
Died: May 12, 1700
Occupation: Poet
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