Source: The Spanish Fryar, Or, The Double Discovery: A Tragi-comedy
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Source: Sir Martin Mar-All. The tempest. An evening's love. Tyrannic love
“Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI: Plays: King Arthur, Cleomenes, Love Triumphant, and The Secular Masque and Other Contributions to The Pilgrim
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“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: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author
“When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.”
Source: Poetical works
“But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.”
Source: Poetical Works: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations
“Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.”
Source: The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson
“Love is not in our choice but in our fate.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)
“Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.”
Source: Poetical works
“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