“Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose
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Source: The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: In Six Volumes
“Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.”
Source: Poetical Works: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations
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
“Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.”
Source: THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN, Esq; Containing All His ORIGINAL POEMS, TALES, AND TRANSLATIONS, IN FOUR VOLUMES.: VOLUME THE SECOND
“Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.”
“Love either finds equality or makes it.”
Source: The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas....: Now First Collected Together, and Corrected from the Roginals
Source: The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIII: Plays: All for Love, Oedipus, Troilus and Cressida
Source: The Major Works
“The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.”
Source: The Poetical works
“Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations
“An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.”
“She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.”
Source: Dryden: Selected Poems
“Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose
“He look'd in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)
“All heiresses are beautiful.”
Source: The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: Don Sebastian, king of Portugal. Amphitryon: or, The two Sosia's. Cleomenes, the Spartan heroe. King Arthur. Love triumphant
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
“From Harmony, from heav'nly Harmony. This universal Frame began.”
Source: Selected poems
“The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.”
Source: Poetical Works: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes
Source: The poetical works of Dryden
“Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)
Source: The Poems of John Dryden, Ed., with an Introduction and Textual Notes
“Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.”
Source: The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: Don Sebastian, king of Portugal. Amphitryon: or, The two Sosia's. Cleomenes, the Spartan heroe. King Arthur. Love triumphant
“Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.”
Source: The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works ; Now First Collected, with Notes and Illustrations
“If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.”
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
Source: Dramatic works
“Genius must be born, and never can be taught.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!”
Source: Dryden: Selected Poems
“For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden, Volume IX: Plays: The Indian Emperour, Secret Love, Sir Martin Mar-all
“When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
Source: The works of John Dryden now first collected ...
“For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations