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“Virgil and Horace [were] the severest writers of the severest age.”
“These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.”
Source: The works of John Dryden now first collected ...
“Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.”
Source: The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis: and of Aulus Persius Flaccus
“For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden. With Illustrations by John Franklin
Source: The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose
“Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.”
Source: The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: In Six Volumes
Source: The Major Works
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)
“Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)
“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)
Source: The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)
“Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age, When no man dies for love, but on the stage.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: With Life and Critical Dissertation