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• Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

  John Dryden

  Jealousy, Soul, Jaundice

  John Dryden, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of John Dryden”

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• Nature meant me
  A wife, a silly, harmless, household dove,
  Fond without art, and kind without deceit.

  John Dryden

  Art, Nature, Silly

  "All for Love".

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• Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

  John Dryden

  Taught, Genius, Born

  John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.256

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• He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

  John Dryden

  Horse, Moving, Pride

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• Dead men tell no tales.

  John Dryden

  Life, Death, Men

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.3334, Delphi Classics

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• A thing well said will be wit in all languages.

  John Dryden

  Language, Well Said, Wit

  'An Essay of Dramatic Poesy' (1668)

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• Such subtle Covenants shall be made,Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade.

  John Dryden

  Peace, War, Self

  John Dryden, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of John Dryden”

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• So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.

  John Dryden

  God, Men, Devil

  John Dryden (1701). “Poems on Various Occasions: And Translations from Several Authors”, p.10

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• Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,- Sweet is pleasure after pain.

  John Dryden

  Sweet, Pain, Treasure

  'Alexander's Feast' (1697) l. 57

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• Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

  John Dryden

  Birthday, Long, World

  Juvenal, John Dryden, Nahum Tate, Persius, Richard Duke (1713). “The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis: and of Aulus Persius Flaccus”, p.210

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• And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive title, long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's Ark.

  John Dryden

  Country, Dark, Land

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.181, Pearson Education

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• For thee, sweet month; the groves green liveries wear.
  If not the first, the fairest of the year;
  For thee the Graces lead the dancing hours,
  And Nature's ready pencil paints the flowers.
  When thy short reign is past, the feverish sun
  The sultry tropic fears, and moves more slowly on.

  John Dryden

  Sweet, Flower, Moving

  John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “The works of John Dryden now first collected ...”, p.273

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• Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.

  John Dryden

  Life, Ease, Prodigals

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 165

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• A fiery soul, which working out its way,
  Fretted the pygmy-body to decay:
  And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
  A daring pilot in extremity;
  Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high
  He sought the storms...

  John Dryden

  Work Out, Soul, Storm

  John Dryden, “Absalom And Achitophel”

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• One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.

  John Dryden

  Sublime, Age, Noble

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.2797, Delphi Classics

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• With how much ease believe we what we wish!

  John Dryden

  Believe, Wish, Ease

  Nathaniel Lee, John Dryden, Arthur Murphy, George Farquhar, Hannah Cowley (1815). “Alexander the Great, Or, the Rival Queens. A Tragedy”

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• Music is inarticulate poesy.

  John Dryden

  Music, Inarticulate, Music Is

  "Tyrannick Love, or The Royal Martyr". Tragedy by John Dryden (Preface), 1670.

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• I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty.

  John Dryden

  Looks, Fats, Young

  'The Maiden Queen' (1668) act 3, sc. 1

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• Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words.

  John Dryden

  May, Poet, Elegant

  John Dryden (1830). “Virgil: the Eclogues”, p.231

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• Music, Music for a while Shall all your cares beguile. Alexander's Feast

  John Dryden

  Care

  1692 Oedipus (with Nathaniel Lee).

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• From plots and treasons Heaven preserve my years, But save me most from my petitioners. Unsatiate as the barren womb or grave; God cannot grant so much as they can crave.

  John Dryden

  Years, Heaven, Plot

  1681 Absalom and Achitophel, pt.1, l.985-8.

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• How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! But how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms! Tosparethegrossness ofthenames, and to dothe thing yet moreseverely, isto drawa full face, and tomake the nose and cheeks stand out, and yet not to employ any depth of shadowing.

  John Dryden

  Men, Faces, Fool

  1693 A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire, 'The Art of Satire'.

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• For every inch that is not fool, is rogue.

  John Dryden

  Character, Rogues, Fool

  John Dryden (1861). “Poetical Works”, p.280

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• The Fates but only spin the coarser clue; The finest of the wool is left for you.

  John Dryden

  Fate, Wool, Clue

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author”, p.296

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• Even kings but play; and when their part is done, some other, worse or better, mounts the throne.

  John Dryden

  Kings, Play, Acting

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.558

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