Dryden

Famous quotes containing the word dryden:

    “Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
    And thin partitions do their bounds divide.”
    —John Dryden (1631–1700)

    “But what we gain’d in Skill we lost in Strength.
    Our Builders were with Want of Genius curst;
    The second Temple was not like the first;
    Till you, the best Vitruvius, come at length,
    Our Beauties equal, but excel our Strength.”
    —John Dryden (1631–1700)

    “The rest to some faint meaning make pretense,
    But Shadwell never deviates into sense.”
    —John Dryden (1631–1700)