John Dryden
John Dryden
John Drydenwas an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668...
running destiny wind
How easy 'tis, when Destiny proves kind, With full-spread sails to run before the wind!
jewels ugly rich
An ugly woman in a rich habit set out with jewels nothing can become.
tears contagion
Sure there's contagion in the tears of friends.
life dream heaven
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
pain long half
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
grace affection goodness
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
betrayal ice literature
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
perfection needs impossible
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
fear life-lesson learning
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
love literature cures
But love's a malady without a cure.
giving want poverty
If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.
sight light scripture
Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light.
brave unjust ruins
Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.
death soul body
Death only this mysterious truth unfolds, The mighty soul how small a body holds.