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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, 24 Tage oder 143.443 Tage alt.
Geboren am 09.08.1631 in Aldwincle
Gestorben am 01.05.1700 in London
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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War is the trade of kings.
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War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble. Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying, If the world be worth thy winning, Think, oh think, it worth enjoying.
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We loathe our manna, and we long for quails.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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What judgement I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or reject; to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose.
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What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
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Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone, 'twas natural to please.
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Whatever is, is in its causes just.
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When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.
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Where trust is greatest, there treason is in its most horrid shape.
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Why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease? And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son.
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Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.
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With ravished ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail: And pity never ceases to be shown To him, who makes the people's wrongs his own.
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Les fautes, comme des fétus de paille, flottent à la surface; qui veut chercher des perles doit plonger au fond.
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Mieux vaut qu'un seul souffre plutôt qu'une nation ne soit affligée.
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Nous aimâmes et nous aimâmes aussi longtemps que nous le pûmes jusqu'à ce que notre amour se fût consumé lui-même chez tous deux; mais notre mariage est mort quand le plaisir s'est enfui; ce fut le plaisir qui en fit un serment.