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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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John Dryden. (1631–1700) (continued)
 
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    For pity melts the mind to love. 1
          Alexander’s Feast. Line 96.
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    Softly sweet, in Lydian measures,
Soon he sooth’d his soul to pleasures.
War, he sung, is toil and trouble;
Honour but an empty bubble;
  Never ending, still beginning,
Fighting still, and still destroying.
  If all the world be worth the winning,
Think, oh think it worth enjoying:
  Lovely Thais sits beside thee,
  Take the good the gods provide thee.
          Alexander’s Feast. Line 97.
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    Sigh’d and look’d, and sigh’d again.
          Alexander’s Feast. Line 120.
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    And, like another Helen, fir’d another Troy.
          Alexander’s Feast. Line 154.
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    Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.
          Alexander’s Feast. Line 160.
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    He rais’d a mortal to the skies,
She drew an angel down.
          Alexander’s Feast. Line 169.
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    A very merry, dancing, drinking,
Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.
          The Secular Masque. Line 40.
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    Fool, not to know that love endures no tie,
And Jove but laughs at lovers’ perjury. 2
          Palamon and Arcite. Book ii. Line 758.
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    For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
          The Cock and the Fox. Line 452.
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    And that one hunting, which the Devil design’d
For one fair female, lost him half the kind.
          Theodore and Honoria. Line 227.
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    Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit,
The power of beauty I remember yet.
          Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 1.
 
Note 1.
See Beaumont and Fletcher, Quotation 24. [back]
Note 2.
This proverb Dryden repeats in Amphitryon, act i. sc. 2.

See Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Quotation 25. [back]