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John Dryden Quotes about Design

For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.

For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.

John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.108

And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.

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.271