“Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.”
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Famous John Dryden Quotes
“And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.”
Source: Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]
“O freedom, first delight of human kind!”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations
“Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle.”
Source: The art of painting of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy
Source: Saggi critici
Source: Poetical Works: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations
Source: The Major Works
“Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“How easy 'tis, when Destiny proves kind, With full-spread sails to run before the wind!”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.”
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