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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 392 Jahre, 8 Monate, 23 Tage oder 143.442 Tage alt.
Geboren am 09.08.1631 in Aldwincle
Gestorben am 01.05.1700 in London
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Weitere 181 Zitate von John Dryden
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Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to th'appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
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So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade.
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Such subtle covenants shall be made, Till peace itself is war in masquerade.
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Sure the poet . . . spewed up a good lump of clotted nonsense at once.
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T'abhor the makers, and their laws approve, Is to hate traitors and the treason love.
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That fairy kind of writing which depends only upon the force of imagination.
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The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision and the old men's dream!
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The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through and make a lucid interval; But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act is the great mind's bribe.
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The soft complaining flute.
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The sun, when he from noon declines, and with abated heat less fiercely shines; seems to grow milder as he goes away.
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The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky.
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Then Israel's monarch, after Heaven's own heart, His vigorous warmth did, variously, impart To wives and slaves: and, wide as his command, Scattered his Maker's image through the land.
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There is a pleasure sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know!
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These are the effects of doting age: vain doubts, idle cares and overcaution.
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Thou strong seducer, opportunity!
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Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind!
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Thou youngest virgin-daughter of the skies, Made in the last promotion of the blest.
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Thy genius calls thee not to purchase fame In keen iambics, but mild anagram: Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command Some peaceful province in Acrostic Land. There thou mayest wings display and altars raise, And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.
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To see and be seen, in heaps they run; Some to undo, and some to be undone.