Dryden

Famous quotes containing the word dryden:

“Nature meant me
A wife, a silly harmless household Dove,
Fond without art; and kind without deceit.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)

“We lov’d, and we lov’d, as long as we could,
Till our love was lov’d out in us both;
But our marriage is dead, when the pleasure is fled:
‘Twas pleasure first made it an oath.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)

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