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“Iddio non creò l'opera Sua perché l'uomo la correggesse.”
Lettera a John Driden di Chesterton, 1700
Origine: Da Sir Martin Mar-all.
“Non prendere la vita che non puoi dare, | perché tutte le cose hanno un uguale diritto a vivere.”
Origine: Interpolazione di Dryden nella sua traduzione (1700) delle Metamorfosi di Ovidio, nei versi del cap. XV riguardanti il vegetarianismo pitagorico; citato in Erica Joy Mannucci, La cena di Pitagora, Carocci, Roma, 2008, p. 16. ISBN 978-88-430-4574-7
John Dryden: Frasi in inglese
John Dryden
The Wild Gallant
The Wild Gallant, act ii. scene. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
King Arthur (1691), Act II scene v, 'Song of Venus.
Origine: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 158–159.
“They say everything in the world is good for something.”
Act III, scene 2.
The Spanish Friar (1681)
“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
libro
The Hind and the Panther
Pt. I, line 271.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
Mariage à la Mode, Act ii, scene 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Be kind to my remains; and oh defend,
Against your judgment, your departed friend!”
Epistle to Congreve (1693), line 72.
Aeneis, Book I, lines 1–4.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
“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)
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
libro
Fables, Ancient and Modern
Origine: 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
libro
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)
“A knockdown argument: 'tis but a word and a blow.”
John Dryden
Amphitryon
Amphitryon (1690), Act I scene i.
“Not only hating David, but the king.”
John Dryden
libro
The Hind and the Panther
Pt. I, line 512.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
Under Mr. Milton's Picture (1688).
“Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife,
Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.”
John Dryden
libro
Fables, Ancient and Modern
Origine: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Line 133.
“And doomed to death, though fated not to die.”
John Dryden
libro
The Hind and the Panther
Pt. I, line 8.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“For pity melts the mind to love.”
Origine: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 96.
