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John Dryden war ein einflussreicher englischer Dichter, Literaturkritiker und Dramatiker.

✵ 9. August 1631 – 1. Mai 1700
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“Madam me no madam.”

John Dryden The Wild Gallant

The Wild Gallant, act ii. scene. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Timotheus, to his breathing flute,
And sounding lyre,
Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.”

Quelle: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 158–159.

“And new-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care
Turn'd by a gentle fire and roasted rare.”

Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book viii. Baucis and Philemon, Line 97.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Plots, true or false, are necessary things,
To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.”

John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel

Pt. I line 83-84.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

“But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be;
Within that circle none durst walk but he.”

John Dryden The Tempest

The Tempest, Prologue.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“And kind as kings upon their coronation day.”

John Dryden buch The Hind and the Panther

Pt. I, line 271.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)

“Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.”

John Dryden Amphitryon

Amphitryon (1690), Act III scene iii.

“O gracious God! how far have we
Profaned thy heavenly gift of poesy!”

To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killegrew (1686), lines 56–57.

“All empire is no more than power in trust.”

John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel

Pt. I line 411.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

“I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric…”

On "To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare: and what he hath left us” by Ben Jonson, in Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry (1692 - 1697) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2615

“A very merry, dancing, drinking,
Laughing, quaffing, and unthinkable time.”

John Dryden buch Fables, Ancient and Modern

Quelle: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), The Secular Masque (1700), Lines 38–39.

“Reason to rule, mercy to forgive:
The first is law, the last prerogative.”

John Dryden buch The Hind and the Panther

Pt. I, lines 261-262.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)

“Fool, not to know that love endures no tie,
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.”

Palamon and Arcite, book ii, line 758.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Not only hating David, but the king.”

John Dryden buch The Hind and the Panther

Pt. I, line 512.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)

“Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife,
Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.”

John Dryden buch Fables, Ancient and Modern

Quelle: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Line 133.

“And doomed to death, though fated not to die.”

John Dryden buch The Hind and the Panther

Pt. I, line 8.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)

“And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.”

Britannia Rediviva (1688), line 208.

“For pity melts the mind to love.”

Quelle: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 96.

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