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• So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was God or Devil.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Absalom and Achitophel, Part i, Line 557...
• And heaven had wanted one immortal song.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Absalom and Achitophel, Part i, Line 197...
• And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Britannia Rediviva, Line 208...
• Bacchus, ever fair and ever young. -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Alexander's Feast, Line 54
• None but the brave deserves the fair. -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Alexander's Feast, Line 15
• And kind as kings upon their coronation day.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- The Hind and the Panther, Part i, Line 271...
• Imparadis'd in one another's arms. -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book iv, Line 506
• Female: One of the opposing, or unfair, sex. -- Ambrose Bierce: "The Devil's Dictionary
• A bevy of fair women. -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book xi, Line 582