Dryden

Famous quotes containing the word dryden:

“Thus intranc’d they did lie,
Till Alexis did try
To recover new breath, that again he might die:
Then often they died; but the more they did so,
The nymph died more quick, and the shepherd more slow.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)

“So over violent, or over civil
That every man with him was God or Devil.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)

“For while my former flames remain within,
Repentance is but want of power to sin.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)