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The true Amphitryon is the Amphitryon where we dine.
Amphitryon (1690)
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
Epistle to Congreve (1693)
Love is lord of all, and is in all the same.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
With how much ease believe we what we wish!
All for Love (1678)
If others in the same Glass better see
'Tis for Themselves they look, but not for me:
For my Salvation must its Doom receive
Not from what others, but what I believe.
Religio Laici (1682)
Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care
To grant, before we can conclude the prayer:
Preventing angels met it half the way,
And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
Britannia Rediviva (1688)
I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric.
The Satires of Juvenal and Persius (1693)
A Heroick Poem, truly such, is undoubtedly the greatest Work which the Soul of Man is capable to perform.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
For those whom God to ruin has design'd,
He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
But far more numerous was the herd of such,
Who think too little, and who talk too much.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be;
Within that circle none durst walk but he.
The Tempest (1670)
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense
Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
Behold him setting in his western skies,
The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
An infant waking to the paps would press,
And meets, instead of milk, a falling tear.
Annus Mirabilis (1667)
To take up half on trust, and half to try,
Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day;
Like Hectors in at every petty fray.
All for Love (1678)
For friendship, of itself a holy tie,
Is made more sacred by adversity.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
She hugged the offender, and forgave the offense,
Sex to the last.
Cymon and Iphigenia (1700)
War, he sung, is toil and trouble;
Honour but an empty bubble.
Alexander's Feast (1697)
Keen appetite
And quick digestion wait on you and yours.