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John Dryden Quotes
«Great wits are sure to madness near allied - And thin partitions do their bounds divide»
«Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.»
Author: John Dryden
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Poet)
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About:
Beauty
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Keywords:
dangers,
footing,
glide,
glided,
glides,
glide by,
gliding,
shun,
slippery,
smooth,
swiftly,
tread
«Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader»
«To die is landing on some distant shore.»
«He [Shakespeare] was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul . . . He was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.»
Author: John Dryden
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
ancient,
comprehensive,
inwards,
largest,
looked,
modern,
naturally,
needed,
poets,
Shakespeare,
spectacles
«When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat yet, fool'd by hope, men favour the deceit»
«Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.»
«When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. Yet, fooled by hope, men favour the deceit; trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: to-morrow's falser than the former day.»
«In pious times 'ere priest craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin: When man, on many, multiply'd his kind Ere one to one was, cursedly, confined; When Nature prompted, and no law deny'd Promiscuous use of concubine and bride»
Author: John Dryden
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
bride,
concubine,
confined,
craft,
crafted,
crafts,
cursedly,
multiply,
one to one,
pious,
polygamy,
priest,
promiscuous,
prompted,
prompting
«By education most have been misled; so they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, and thus the child imposes on the man.»