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John Dryden’s 1677 tragedy retelling the final phase of Antony and Cleopatra

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Desire, loyalty, friendship, jealousy, judgment, self-deception and the instability of passion.

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Men are but children of a larger growth;

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“Men are but children of a larger growth;”

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Dolabella compares adult appetite and instability with childhood, using the maxim to criticize desires that remain changeable despite age.

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All for Love, represented by Project Gutenberg #2062. Dolabella speaks the line while reflecting on Antony’s passion and his own conflicting attraction to Cleopatra. It is dramatic character speech inside a tragedy, not Dryden autobiography or a universal developmental claim.

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