John Dryden
John Dryden
John Drydenwas an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668...
strong opportunity
Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!
stupid eye people
The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.
art hard-work hands
Arts and sciences in one and the same century have arrived at great perfection; and no wonder, since every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies; the work then, being pushed on by many hands, must go forward.
best-love
Love either finds equality or makes it.
being-strong strong grace
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
truth mean common
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity.
knowing mad poetry
Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of melody; Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin, Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in; Free from all meaning whether good or bad, And in one word, heroically mad.
silence asks denied
Not to ask is not be denied.
sin danger
She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
philosophy school years
Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi in Christendome) that almost a new Nature has been revealed to us? that more errours of the School have been detected, more useful Experiments in Philosophy have been made, more Noble Secrets in Opticks, Medicine, Anatomy, Astronomy, discover'd, than in all those credulous and doting Ages from Aristotle to us? So true it is that nothing spreads more fast than Science, when rightly and generally cultivated.
mother eye men
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
fitness exercise technology
God never made his work for man to mend.
nature art silly
Nature meant for me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
harmony universal universe
From Harmony, from heav'nly Harmony. This universal Frame began.