John Dryden
John Dryden
John Drydenwas an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668...
fond harmless household meant nature silly
Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
base free laws nature noble savage servitude wild woods
I am as free as nature first made man, / Ere the base laws of servitude began, / When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
free nature
I am as free as nature first made man.
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.
nature eye science
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.
art nature taught
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
art nature missing
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
life death nature
To die is landing on some distant shore.
nature chaucer
Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her.
nature art silly
Nature meant for me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
nature two age
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two.
poetry heroic human-nature
Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature.
reason good-nature good-sense
Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good nature is the product of right reason.
chose discourse nearest rugged verse
And this unpolished rugged verse I chose / As fittest for discourse and nearest prose.