John Dryden
John Dryden
John Drydenwas an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668...
affect gravity men name solid wanting wit
Those wanting wit affect gravity and go by the name of solid men
danced days witness
Witness ye days and nights, and all ye hours, / That danced away with down upon your feet.
married past three within
I am to be married within these three days; married past redemption.
allied bounds divide great madness near sure thin wits
Great wits are sure to madness near allied - And thin partitions do their bounds divide
literature madness wit
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
wit wanted frugal
One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.
long wit
Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.
language well-said wit
A thing well said will be wit in all languages.
men judging long
When a man's life is under debate, The judge can ne'er too long deliberate.
freedom democracies-have people
Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
heaps
To see and to be seen, in heaps they run; / Some to undo, and some to be undone.
affects assumes ears monarch seems shake
With ravished ears / The monarch hears, / Assumes the god, / Affects to nod, / And seems to shake the spheres.
cure doctor exercise fee fields health hunt wise
Better to hunt in fields for health unbought than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend;
shun struggle
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.