“She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold even in the summer of her age.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)
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“Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.”
Source: Dryden: Selected Poems
Source: Poetical Works: With a Memoir
Source: Marriage A-La-Mode
“Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.”
Source: Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]
“Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I.”
Source: The Poems of John Dryden
“Learn to write well, or not to write at all.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
Source: The Works of John Dryden: Poetical works
“How easy 'tis, when Destiny proves kind, With full-spread sails to run before the wind!”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts”
“More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store”
Source: The Poems of John Dryden
“But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.”
“Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.”
“Dancing is the poetry of the foot.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)
“Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.”
Source: The Poems of John Dryden
Source: The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson
“The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.”
“He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.”
“Love is not in our choice but in our fate.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)
“All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.”
“For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.”
“Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.”
“Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.”
“A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.”
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: The Works of John Dryden, Volume II: Poems, 1681-1684
“Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.”
Source: Poetical works
“Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.”
“But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.”
“Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.”
“Honor is but an empty bubble.”
Source: Selected poems
“Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations