#john dryden

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Beware the fury of a patient man

~ John Dryden

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"A truth that's told with bad intent/ Beats all the lies you can invent."

- John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel

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The Dryden Family: Edward Dryden (d.1717), his Wife, Elizabeth Allen and their Children, John Dryden, later Sir John Dryden, 7th Bt (1704 - 1770), Bevill Dryden (d.1758) and Mary Dryden, later Mrs John Shaw

Artist: Jonathan Richardson the Elder (English, 1665-1745)

Date: ca. 1716

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Trust Collections, England, United Kingdom

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds. John Dryden

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John Dryden, 'Lines on Milton' (1688)

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"Words are but pictures of our thoughts."

John Dryden - (1631-1700) - English Poet and Literary Critic

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Cymon and Iphigenia

Artist: John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)

Date: 1847 - 1848

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool, England

Description

The story of Cimon (or Cymon) and Iphigenia was originally told in 'The Decameron' by Boccaccio. Millais’s source though, was the version by the 17th-century English poet, John Dryden. The poem described the aristocratic but boorish Cymon who had been banished by his family to live in the country as a rustic, and his love for the distant and refined Iphigenia.