John Dryden
John Dryden
John Drydenwas an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668...
brave soul treasure
That gloomy outside, like a rusty chest, contains the shoring treasure of a soul resolved and brave.
brave bravery fairs
None but the brave deserve the fair.
brave unjust ruins
Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.
brave pairs fairs
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
men brave quarrels
A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray.
men bravery honor
The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.
men bravery chance
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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.
image scattered wide
And, wide as his command, / Scattered his Maker's image through the land.
age genius includes particular studies universal
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which includes those that live in it to some particular studies
glorious sons treason
During his office, treason was no crime. / The sons of Belial had a glorious time.