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• And, like another Helen, fir'd another Troy.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Alexander's Feast, Line 154...
• Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Alexander's Feast, Line 160...
• For pity melts the mind to love. -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Alexander's Feast, Line 96
• Sigh'd and look'd, and sigh'd again. -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Alexander's Feast, Line 120
• 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
• Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er agai
  And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain....
• With ravish'd ears The monarch hears; Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Alexander's Feast, Line 37...
• And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Absalom and Achitophel, Part i, Line 169...