John Dryden
John Dryden
John Drydenwas an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668...
love wise mind
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
fear boldness-and-courage mask
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
i-miss-you missing-you long-distance-relationship
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
men good-man want
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
dance ballet-class feet
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
birthday years long
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?
love life breakup
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
silence secret guilt
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
love remember lady-love
Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
riches slave graves
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
life men thinking
When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow's falser than the former day.
age genius kind
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
genius
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
farewell thinking littles
Farewell, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own.