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 genius pains taught
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But Genius must be born; and never can be taught
pain gains pleasure
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
sweet pain drinking
Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure- Sweet is pleasure after pain.
life sweet pain
How happy the lover, How easy his chain, How pleasing his pain, How sweet to discover He sighs not in vain.
love sweet pain
Ah, how sweet it is to love! Ah, how gay is young Desire! And what pleasing pains we prove When we first approach Love's fire!
pain long half
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
art giving painting
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
sweet pain treasure
Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,- Sweet is pleasure after pain.
sweet pain pleasure
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
pain dying pleasure
But dying is a pleasure / When living is a pain.
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.