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Quotes from The Works of Virgil — John Dryden

1631–1700 England

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Love conquers all, and we must yield to Love.

The Works of Virgil (1697)

Fate, and the dooming gods, are deaf to tears.

The Works of Virgil (1697)

The gates of hell are open night and day;
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this the task and mighty labor lies.

The Works of Virgil (1697)

Endure the hardships of your present state,
Live, and reserve yourselves for better fate.

The Works of Virgil (1697)

Love is lord of all, and is in all the same.

The Works of Virgil (1697)

A Heroick Poem, truly such, is undoubtedly the greatest Work which the Soul of Man is capable to perform.

The Works of Virgil (1697)

Can heav'nly minds such high resentment show,
Or exercise their spite in human woe?

The Works of Virgil (1697)

Like you, an alien in a land unknown,
I learn to pity woes so like my own.

The Works of Virgil (1697)

My next desire is, void of care and strife,
To lead a soft, secure, inglorious life:
A country cottage near a crystal flood,
A winding valley, and a lofty wood.

The Works of Virgil (1697)

Arms, and the man I sing, who, forced by Fate,
And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate,
Expell'd and exil'd, left the Trojan shore;
Long labours both by sea and land he bore.

The Works of Virgil (1697)

Ye realms, yet unreveal'd to human sight,
Ye gods who rule the regions of the night,
Ye gliding ghosts, permit me to relate
The mystic wonders of your silent state!

The Works of Virgil (1697)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Dryden (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.