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Words Quotes by John Dryden
- When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.
- Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
- As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes.
- Thoughts cannot form themselves in words so horrid As can express my guilt.
- There is an inimitable grace in Virgil's words, and in them principally consists that beauty which gives so inexpressible a pleasure to him who best…
- Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words.
- It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language) often expresses that…
- Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
- If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
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