John Dryden Frases famosas
“Homens são crianças grandes.”
Men are but children of a larger growth <br class="br">The dramatick works: of John Dryden, Esq; In six volumes, Volume 4 - Página 139 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=xCMJAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA139, John Dryden - printed for Jacob Tonson at Shakespear's Head over-against Katharine-Street in the strand, 1717
“Primeiro fazemos nossos hábitos, depois nossos hábitos nos fazem.”
citado em "Citações da Cultura Universal" - Página 243, de Alberto J. G. Villamarín, Editora AGE Ltda, 2002, ISBN 8574970891, 9788574970899
Citações de prazer de John Dryden
“A felicidade que o homem pode alcançar, não está no prazer, mas no descanso da dor.”
For all the happiness Mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but.in rest from pain. <br class="br">The Indian Emperor, 1667 - Página 40 https://books.google.com.br/books?id=XZsxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA40, John Dryden - Scolar Press, 1667 - 70 páginas
John Dryden frases e citações
John Dryden: Frases em inglês
John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel
Pt. I, lines 230–239.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel
Pt. I, lines 554–557.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
“Than a successive title long and dark,
Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark.”
John Dryden livro The Hind and the Panther
Pt 1, line 301.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit,
The power of beauty I remember yet.”
John Dryden livro Fables, Ancient and Modern
Fonte: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Lines 1–2.
“Here lies my wife:here let her lie!
Now she's at rest, and so am I.”
Epitaph, intended for his wife
“All have not the gift of martyrdom.”
John Dryden livro The Hind and the Panther
Pt. II, line 59.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
Aeneis, Book VI, lines 374–377.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
Essay of Dramatick Poesie (1668) Full text online http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/drampoet.html.
“Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.”
To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killegrew (1686), line 70.
The Indian Emperor (1667), Act III, scene ii.
John Dryden livro Fables, Ancient and Modern
Preface to the Fables.
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)
“When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!”
John Dryden livro Fables, Ancient and Modern
Fonte: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Line 41.
John Dryden livro Fables, Ancient and Modern
The Cock and the Fox line 445 - 457.
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)
Georgic II, lines 688–691.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
“All human things are subject to decay,
And, when fate summons, monarchs must obey.”
Fonte: Mac Flecknoe (1682), l. 1–2.
“Sound the trumpets; beat the drums…
Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes.”
Fonte: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 50–51.
“A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.”
John Dryden livro Fables, Ancient and Modern
Preface to the Fables.
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)
Sylvae (London, 1685), Translation of the Latter Part of the Third Book of Lucretius, "Against the Fear of Death", pp. 61–62.
“For those whom God to ruin has design'd,
He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.”
John Dryden livro The Hind and the Panther
Pt. III, line 2387.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“The Wild Gallant, act ii. scene. 1.”
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her.”
John Dryden livro Fables, Ancient and Modern
Preface to the Fables.
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)
John Dryden livro The Hind and the Panther
Pt. I, lines 462–465.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“T is not for nothing that we life pursue;
It pays our hopes with something still that's new.”
John Dryden Aureng-zebe
Aureng-Zebe (1676), Act IV, scene i.
“Like a led victim, to my death I'll go,
And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow.”
Act II, scene 1.
The Spanish Friar (1681)
“And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd
For one fair female, lost him half the kind.”
Theodore and Honoria, line 227.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Thus in a pageant-show a plot is made;
And peace itself is war in masquerade.”
John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel
Pt. I, lines 750–751.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
Fonte: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 77–83.
Fonte: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 66–70.