John Dryden Quotes about Heaven
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
John Dryden, George Gilfillan (1857). “Poetical Works: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes”
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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.136
John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.287
John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.187
John Dryden (1993). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIV: Plays; The Kind Keeper, The Spanish Fryar, The Duke of Guise, and The Vindication”, p.116, Univ of California Press
1681 Absalom and Achitophel, pt.1, l.985-8.
The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill?
John Dryden (1808). “Dramatic works”, p.162
Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age, When no man dies for love, but on the stage.
John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: With Life and Critical Dissertation”, p.138
For mysterious things of faith, rely on the proponent, Heaven's authority.
John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.399, Pearson Education
Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury.
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.144
