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John Dryden Quotes - Page 16

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Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.

Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.

Humility, Virtue, Prime

John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations”, p.185

The Fates but only spin the coarser clue; The finest of the wool is left for you.

Fate, Wool, Clue

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.296

Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying. If all the world be worth the winning, Think, oh think it worth enjoying: Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee.

Sweet, War, Fighting

John Dryden (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir”, p.17

For thee, sweet month; the groves green liveries wear. If not the first, the fairest of the year; For thee the Graces lead the dancing hours, And Nature's ready pencil paints the flowers. When thy short reign is past, the feverish sun The sultry tropic fears, and moves more slowly on.

Sweet, Flower, Moving

John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “The works of John Dryden now first collected ...”, p.273

Not to ask is not be denied.

Silence, Denied, Asks

The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen, Lives not to please himself, but other men; Is always drudging, wastes his life and blood, Yet only eats and drinks what you think good.

Men, Thinking, Blood

John Dryden (1811). “The poetical works of John Dryden, esq: containing original poems, tales, and translations, with notes”, p.436

Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

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

Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed.

Needs, Impossible, Fame

John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.256

Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.

Fate, Wings, News

John Dryden (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden. With Illustrations by John Franklin”, p.156

When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!

Love, Fire, Blood

John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.432

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

Men, Office, Proud

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

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

Music, Harmony, Notes

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!

Fate, Joy, Sorrow

To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.

Faith, Names, Trying

John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.401, Pearson Education

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

Taught, Genius, Born

John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.256

My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.

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

Thoughts cannot form themselves in words so horrid As can express my guilt.

Guilt, Form

John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, John Brown (1792). “British Theatre: Isabella, or, The fatal marriage”

Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.

Tree, Verbs, Nouns

John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations”, p.353

When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her.

Misfortunes

The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill?

Heaven, Free Will, Endure

John Dryden (1808). “Dramatic works”, p.162

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

Military, War, Hands

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

My love's a noble madness.

Love, Noble, Madness

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

A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay: And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms...

Work Out, Soul, Storm

John Dryden, “Absalom And Achitophel”

Restless at home, and ever prone to range.

Travel, Home, Restless

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

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.

Men, Omnipotence, Bears

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

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