01c. 1666 ADKings' titles commonly begin by force which time wears off, and mellows into right; and power which in one age is tyranny is ripened in the next to true succession.John Dryden / quote ↗
04c. 1666 ADThe florid, elevated, and figurative way is for the passions; for love and hatred, fear and anger, are begotten in the soul by showing their objects out of their true proportion, either greater than the life, or less; but instruction is to be given by showing them what they naturally are. A man is to cheated into passion, but reasoned into truth.John Dryden / quote ↗
08c. 1666 ADThose who believe that the praises which arise from valor are superior to those which proceed from any other virtues have not considered.John Dryden / quote ↗
13c. 1666 ADLet this auspicious morning be expressed With a white stone distinguished from the rest, White as thy fame, and as thy honor clear, And let new joys attend on thy now added year.John Dryden / quote ↗
14c. 1666 ADI am sore wounded but not slainI will lay me down and bleed a whileAnd then rise up to fight againJohn Dryden / quote ↗
15c. 1666 ADWelcome, thou kind deceiver!Thou best of thieves: who, with an easy key,Dost open life, and, unperceived by us,Even steal us from ourselves.John Dryden / quote ↗
16c. 1666 ADFor you may palm upon us new for old:All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold.John Dryden / quote ↗
17c. 1666 ADSuch subtle covenants shall be made, Till peace itself is war in masquerade.John Dryden / quote ↗
19c. 1666 ADIf others in the same Glass better see 'Tis for Themselves they look, but not for me: For my Salvation must its Doom receive Not from what others, but what I believe.John Dryden / quote ↗
20c. 1666 ADThus like a Captive in an Isle confin'd,Man walks at large, a Pris'ner of the MindJohn Dryden / quote ↗
22c. 1666 ADWhatever is, is in its causes just;But purblind manSees but a part o' th' chain; the nearest link;His eyes not carrying to that equal beamThat poises all above.John Dryden / quote ↗
23c. 1666 ADTis Fate that flings the dice,And as she flingsOf kings makes peasants,And of peasants kings.John Dryden / quote ↗
24c. 1666 ADAll things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.John Dryden / quote ↗
