John Dryden
John Dryden
John Drydenwas an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668...
conformity conform martyrdom
For all have not the gift of martyrdom.
life death nature
To die is landing on some distant shore.
nice honor soil
Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.
society politics ruins
Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
faith light saws
Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the Light.
home sacred refuge
Home is the sacred refuge of our life.
jealousy proof-of-love medicine
Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure.
love men heaven
Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age, When no man dies for love, but on the stage.
love noble madness
My love's a noble madness.
war military hands
Raw in the fields the rude militia swarms, Mouth without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence.
music harmony notes
As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes.
eden paradise sin
Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within.
men office proud
Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom pleasd to bless.
kings people design
The people have a right supreme To make their kings, for Kings are made for them. All Empire is no more than Pow'r in Trust, Which when resum'd, can be no longer just. Successionm for the general good design'd, In its own wrong a Nation cannot bind.