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„Obdivuji ho, ale miluji Shakespeara.“
[(en) I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.]
o Benu Jonsonovi
Zdroj: [Orsini, Gian N. G., Benedetto Croce: Philosopher of Art and Literary Critic, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, 1961, 131, anglicky]
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John Dryden The Wild Gallant
The Wild Gallant, act ii. scene. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
King Arthur (1691), Act II scene v, 'Song of Venus.
Zdroj: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 158–159.
“They say everything in the world is good for something.”
Act III, scene 2.
The Spanish Friar (1681)
“And new-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care
Turn'd by a gentle fire and roasted rare.”
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book viii. Baucis and Philemon, Line 97.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Plots, true or false, are necessary things,
To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.”
John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel
Pt. I line 83-84.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
“But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be;
Within that circle none durst walk but he.”
John Dryden The Tempest
The Tempest, Prologue.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“And kind as kings upon their coronation day.”
John Dryden kniha The Hind and the Panther
Pt. I, line 271.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
Mariage à la Mode, Act ii, scene 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Be kind to my remains; and oh defend,
Against your judgment, your departed friend!”
Epistle to Congreve (1693), line 72.
Aeneis, Book I, lines 1–4.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
John Dryden All for Love
Act IV, scene I
All for Love (1678)
“Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.”
John Dryden Amphitryon
Amphitryon (1690), Act III scene iii.
“O gracious God! how far have we
Profaned thy heavenly gift of poesy!”
To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killegrew (1686), lines 56–57.
“All empire is no more than power in trust.”
John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel
Pt. I line 411.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
On "To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare: and what he hath left us” by Ben Jonson, in Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry (1692 - 1697) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2615
“A very merry, dancing, drinking,
Laughing, quaffing, and unthinkable time.”
John Dryden kniha Fables, Ancient and Modern
Zdroj: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), The Secular Masque (1700), Lines 38–39.
“Reason to rule, mercy to forgive:
The first is law, the last prerogative.”
John Dryden kniha The Hind and the Panther
Pt. I, lines 261-262.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.”
Epistle to Congreve (1693), line 19.
“Fool, not to know that love endures no tie,
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.”
Palamon and Arcite, book ii, line 758.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“A knockdown argument: 'tis but a word and a blow.”
John Dryden Amphitryon
Amphitryon (1690), Act I scene i.
“Not only hating David, but the king.”
John Dryden kniha The Hind and the Panther
Pt. I, line 512.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
John Dryden kniha Fables, Ancient and Modern
Palamon and Arcite.
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)
Under Mr. Milton's Picture (1688).
“Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife,
Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.”
John Dryden kniha Fables, Ancient and Modern
Zdroj: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Line 133.
“And doomed to death, though fated not to die.”
John Dryden kniha The Hind and the Panther
Pt. I, line 8.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.”
Britannia Rediviva (1688), line 208.
“For pity melts the mind to love.”
Zdroj: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 96.
