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Quotation by John Dryden
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John Dryden (69)Additional Sources
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)Absalom and Achitophel, Pt. IAbsalom and Achitophel, Pt. IIAbsolom and AchitophelAlbanat, in King Arthur (1691)Related Subjects
prayer (5) creation (4) love (4) faith (4) world, the (4) law (4) beauty (3) humankind (3) soul (3) heaven (3)
Then for the Style; Majestick and Divine,
It speaks no less than God in every Line:
Commanding words; whose Force is still the same
As the first Fiat that produc'd our Frame.
It speaks no less than God in every Line:
Commanding words; whose Force is still the same
As the first Fiat that produc'd our Frame.
John Dryden (1631–1700), British poet. Religio Laici (l. 152–155). . .
Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose, Vols. I–II. Vol. I: 1600–1660; Vol. II: 1660–1700. Helen C. White, Ruth C. Wallerstein, and Ricardo Quintana, eds. (1951, 1952) The Macmillan Company.
Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose, Vols. I–II. Vol. I: 1600–1660; Vol. II: 1660–1700. Helen C. White, Ruth C. Wallerstein, and Ricardo Quintana, eds. (1951, 1952) The Macmillan Company.
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