“They first condemn that first advised the ill.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
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“These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.”
Source: The works of John Dryden now first collected ...
“All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.”
Source: Dryden: Selected Poems
“He who proposes to be an author should first be a student.”
“When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear.”
“The bravest men are subject most to chance.”
Source: The works of John Dryden,: now first collected in eighteen volumes
“Let cheerfulness on happy fortune wait.”
Source: The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author
“New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break.”
Source: Poetical Works: With a Memoir
“A coward is the kindest animal; 'Tis the most forgiving creature in a fight.”
“Love is a child that talks in broken language, yet then he speaks most plain.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIII: Plays: All for Love, Oedipus, Troilus and Cressida
“He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden, Volume X: Plays: The Tempest, Tyrannick Love, An Evening's Love
Source: The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author
“To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.”
Source: Prose works
Source: The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes
“Be secret and discreet; the fairy favors are lost when not concealed.”
“A lively faith will bear aloft the mind, and leave the luggage of good works behind.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“For mysterious things of faith, rely on the proponent, Heaven's authority.”
Source: Dryden: Selected Poems
“So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.”
Source: Dryden: Selected Poems
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq;: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations. Now First Collected and Published Together in Four Volumes. With Explanatory Notes and Observations. Also an Account of His Life and Writings ...
Source: The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose
“Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.”
Source: The works of John Dryden,: now first collected in eighteen volumes
“Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.”
Source: The works of John Dryden now first collected ...
“A happy genius is the gift of nature.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden, Volume XX: Prose 1691-1698 De Arte Graphica and Shorter Works
“The blushing beauties of a modest maid.”
Source: Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: With Life and Critical Dissertation
Source: Select essays on the belles lettres
“Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.”
Source: 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
“Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle.”
Source: The art of painting of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy
Source: The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life
“Interest makes all seem reason that leads to it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)
“When a man's life is under debate, The judge can ne'er too long deliberate.”
“Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden,: The life of John Dryden
“A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind.”
Source: Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]
“There is a proud modesty in merit.”
Source: Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]
“It's a hard world, neighbors, if a man's oath must be his master.”
“Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.”
Source: The Poems of John Dryden: 1693-1696