John Dryden nejznámější citáty
„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]
John Dryden: Citáty anglicky
“Whatever is, is in its causes just.”
Act III, scene i.
Œdipus (1679)
John Dryden kniha Fables, Ancient and Modern
Preface to the Fables.
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)
John Dryden Aureng-zebe
Aureng-Zebe (1676), Act IV, scene i.
“Nor is the people's judgment always true:
The most may err as grossly as the few.”
John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel
Pt. I, lines 781–782.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
“Love conquers all, and we must yield to Love.”
Pastoral X, lines 98–99.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
“Fate, and the dooming gods, are deaf to tears.”
Aeneis, Book VI, line 512.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
“Look round the habitable world: how few
Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.”
Juvenal, Satire X (1693), lines 1–2.
“Calms appear, when storms are past,
Love will have its hour at last.”
John Dryden kniha Fables, Ancient and Modern
Zdroj: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), The Secular Masque (1700), Lines 72–73.
Act II, scene 2.
The Spanish Friar (1681)
Act III, scene 2.
The Spanish Friar (1681)
Act II, scene 1.
The Spanish Friar (1681)
