Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are. – John Dryden
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. – John Dryden
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are. – John Dryden
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. – John Dryden
Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil. – John Dryden
The present volume is the result of a taste for collecting poetical quotations, which beset me in the days of my nonage, now more than half a century ago…. I read the poets diligently, and registered, in a portable form, whatever I thought apposite and striking. – Henry G. Bohn, A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets, 1881