John Dryden
John Dryden
John Drydenwas an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668...
kings war trade
War is a trade of kings.
kings play acting
Even kings but play; and when their part is done, some other, worse or better, mounts the throne.
kings fighting empires
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
kings war trade
War is the trade of kings.
kings political plot
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
kings people drones
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
death kings moments
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
kings people design
The people have a right supreme To make their kings, for Kings are made for them. All Empire is no more than Pow'r in Trust, Which when resum'd, can be no longer just. Successionm for the general good design'd, In its own wrong a Nation cannot bind.
kings fate dice
Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.
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.