John Dryden
John Dryden
John Drydenwas an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668...
earth kindly welcome
Welcome as kindly showers to the long parched earth.
kind imitation cattle
Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle.
death woe kind
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
age genius kind
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
vices kind satire
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
life kindness keys
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
pride kind lord
Pride - Lord of human kind
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.