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Dichter, Literaturkritiker, Dramatiker, Vertreter des englischen Klassizismus, "Absalom and Achitophel", "Marriage à la mode", "The Hind and the Panther" (England, 1631 - 1700).

John Dryden · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

John Dryden wäre heute 393 Jahre, 7 Monate, 25 Tage oder 143.778 Tage alt.

Geboren am 09.08.1631 in Aldwincle
Gestorben am 01.05.1700 in London
Sternzeichen: ♌ Löwe

• Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

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• Give, you gods, Give to your boy, your Caesar, The rattle of a globe to play withal, This gewgaw world, and put him cheaply off: I'll not be pleased with less than Cleopatra.

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• Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good nature is the product of right reason.

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• Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

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• Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own: He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day.

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• Happy, happy, happy, pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair.

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• He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him.

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• He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.

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• He wants worth who dares not praise a foe.

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• He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

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• He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul . . . He was naturally learn'd; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature: he looked inwards, and found her there . . . He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great.

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• His colours laid so thick on every place, As only showed the paint, but hid the face.

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• Honor is but an empty bubble.

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• How can finite grasp infinity.

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• How easy 'tis, when destiny proves kind, with full-spread sails to run before the wind!

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• How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! But how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms! To spare the grossness of the names, and to do the thing yet more severely, is to draw a full face, and to make the nose and cheeks stand out, and yet not to employ any depth of shadowing.

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• I am as free as nature first made man, ere the base laws of servitude began, when wild in woods the noble savage ran.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.

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• I am to be married within these three days; married past redemption.

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• I can enjoy her while she's kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes the wings, and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away.

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