John Dryden
John Dryden
John Drydenwas an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668...
nature art tails
By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.
art vices slave
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
art oxford london
So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade.
art rocks wrecks
Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck.
art nature taught
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
art nature missing
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
art giving painting
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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.
nature art silly
Nature meant for me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
art proud slave
To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts.
chose discourse nearest rugged verse
And this unpolished rugged verse I chose / As fittest for discourse and nearest prose.
though warm
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm
poor ten thousand torture word
And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.
child thus
And thus the child imposes on the man.