John Dryden
John Dryden
John Drydenwas an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668...
action common graceful interest seldom
Youth, beauty, graceful action, seldom fail:/ But common interest always will prevail.
sex grace vain
To so perverse a sex all grace is vain.
believe grace rewards
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
order grace peculiar
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
love grace literature
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
grace affection goodness
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
giving grace diction
There is an inimitable grace in Virgil's words, and in them principally consists that beauty which gives so inexpressible a pleasure to him who best understands their force. This diction of his, I must once again say, is never to be copied; and since it cannot, he will appear but lame in the best translation.
order grace
Order is the greatest grace.
being-strong strong grace
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
grace-and-mercy heaven attributes
Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel.
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.