“Guardati dalla furia di un uomo tranquillo.”
John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel
da "Absalom and Achitophel", 1681
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John Dryden frasi celebri
“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
“Whatever is, is in its causes just.”
Act III, scene i.
Œdipus (1679)
John Dryden libro Fables, Ancient and Modern
Preface to the Fables.
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)
John Dryden Aureng-zebe
Aureng-Zebe (1676), Act IV, scene i.
“Nor is the people's judgment always true:
The most may err as grossly as the few.”
John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel
Pt. I, lines 781–782.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
“Love conquers all, and we must yield to Love.”
Pastoral X, lines 98–99.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
“Fate, and the dooming gods, are deaf to tears.”
Aeneis, Book VI, line 512.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
“Look round the habitable world: how few
Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.”
Juvenal, Satire X (1693), lines 1–2.
“Calms appear, when storms are past,
Love will have its hour at last.”
John Dryden libro Fables, Ancient and Modern
Origine: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), The Secular Masque (1700), Lines 72–73.
Act II, scene 2.
The Spanish Friar (1681)
Act III, scene 2.
The Spanish Friar (1681)
Act II, scene 1.
The Spanish Friar (1681)
