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Call Quotes by John Dryden
- When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads,…
- [T]he Famous Rules which the French call, Des Trois Unitez , or, The Three Unities, which ought to be observ'd in every Regular Play; namely,…
- Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words.
- Farewell, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own.
- How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! But how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or…
- Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for…
- Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own.
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