“Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light.”
Source: Dryden: Selected Poems
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Source: The Works of John Dryden, Volume XII: Plays Ambboyna, The State of Innocence, Aureng-Zebe
Source: Poetical Works: With a Memoir
“O freedom, first delight of human kind!”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations
Source: Sir Martin Mar-All. The tempest. An evening's love. Tyrannic love
“They first condemn that first advised the ill.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“He who proposes to be an author should first be a student.”
“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 ...
Source: Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]
“An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.”
“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
Source: The works of John Dryden now first collected ...
“He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose
“For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose