John Dryden Quotes - Page 20

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• The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.

  John Dryden

  Stupid, Eye, People

  John Dryden (1855). “The Poetical Works”, p.464

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• Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle.

  John Dryden

  Kind, Imitation, Cattle

  Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, Sir Joshua Reynolds, John Dryden, Alexander Pope (1783). “The art of painting of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy”, p.166

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• Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.

  John Dryden

  Tree, Verbs, Nouns

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations”, p.353

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• For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

  John Dryden

  Conformity, Conform, Martyrdom

  John Dryden (1767). “THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN, Esq; Containing All His ORIGINAL POEMS, TALES, AND TRANSLATIONS, IN FOUR VOLUMES.: VOLUME THE SECOND”, p.31

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• Better one suffer than a nation grieve.

  John Dryden

  Grieving, Suffering, Nations

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 416

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