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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

• Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst. For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace; A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay: And o'er informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the waves wenthigh He sought the storms; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boasthis wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

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• One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation, because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way; but swept like a drag-net, great and small. There was plenty enough, but the dishes were ill-sorted; whole pyramids of sweetmeats, for boys and women; but little of solid meat for men.

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• Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.

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• Ovid, the soft philosopher of love.

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• Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.

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• Parting is worse than death; it is death of love.

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• Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.

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• Possess your soul with patience.

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• Presence of mind, and courage in distress, Are more than armies to procure success.

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• Reason to rule, but mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.

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• Refined himself to soul, to curb the sense And made almost a sin of abstinence.

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• Repentance is but want of power to sin.

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• Repentance is the virtue of weak minds.

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• Revolving in his altered soul The various turns of chance below.

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• Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck.

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• Self-defense is Nature's oldest law.

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• Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

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• She hugged the offender, and forgave the offence.

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• She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, Can draw you to her with a single hair.

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• Sighed and looked, and sighed again.

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