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John Dryden

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John Dryden was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden.


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Quote Left Your love by ours we measure Till we have lost our treasure, But dying is a pleasure, When living is a pain. Quote Right
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Quote Left This good had full as bad a Consequence: The Book thus put in every vulgar hand,... Quote Right
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Quote Left Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own: He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Quote Right
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Quote Left For all have not the gift of martyrdom. Quote Right
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Quote Left All human things are subject to decay,And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obeyThis Flecknoe found, who like Augustus youngWas call'd to empire, and had govern'd longIn prose and verse, was own'd, without disputeThrough all the realms of nonsense, absolute. Quote Right
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