What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experien…

John Dryden
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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet. ✨ John Dryden (1854). Poetical Works, p.132
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen. ✨ 'The Hind and the Panther' (1687) pt. 1, l. 33
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings. ✨ 'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 83
Genius must be born, and never can be taught. ✨ John Dryden (1868). The Poetical Works of John Dryden, p.256
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