William Congreve
William Congreve
William Congrevewas an English playwright and poet...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth24 January 1670
asked question
She is chaste who was never asked the question
dead quite
Is he then dead? / What, dead at last, quite, quite for ever dead!
age age-and-aging believe golden men
Believe it, Men have ever been the same,And all the Golden Age is but a Dream.
almost looks sweet treats whom
Whom she refuses, she treats still / With so much sweet behaviour, / That her refusal, through her skill, / Looks almost like a favour.
men rest wives
Wife, spouse, my dear, joy, jewel, love, sweet-heart and the rest of that nauseous cant, in which men and their wives are so fulsomely familiar.
leisure married repent
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
born came upstairs
I came upstairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar.
affecting artful careless seem
Careless she is with artful care, / Affecting to seem unaffected.
fire lost proper rude shock smoke
Nature, to each allots his proper Sphere, But, that forsaken, we like Comets err: Toss'd thro' the Void, by some rude Shock we're broke, And all our boasted Fire is lost in Smoke
bend charms english-poet hath music savage soothe
Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
bend charms music savage soothe
Music has charms to soothe the savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
discovers expectation folly insipid joys security wish
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.
expectation joy joys
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.
light tricks women
Women are like tricks by light of hand,Which, to admire, we should not understand.