John Dryden
John Dryden
John Drydenwas an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668...
broke expensive sins wisely
Did wisely from expensive sins refrain, / And never broke the Sabbath, but for gain.
draw knows rant single
She knows her man, and when you rant or swear, / Can draw you to her with a single hair.
pious polygamy sin
In pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, before polygamy was made a sin
greatness desire sin
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
eden paradise sin
Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within.
sin danger
She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
power want sin
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
loss vices sin
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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