John Dryden Quotes
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An horrid stillness first invades the ear,And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric...
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Ye realms, yet unreveal'd to human sight,Ye gods who rule the regions of the night,Ye gliding ghosts, permit me to relateThe mystic wonders of your silent state!
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Like you, an alien in a land unknown,I learn to pity woes so like my own.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Bacchus, ever fair and ever young.
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A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.
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Above any Greek or Roman name.
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What precious drops are thoseWhich silently each other's track pursue,Bright as young diamonds in their infant dew?
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As long as words a different sense will bear, And each may be his own interpreter, Our airy faith will no foundation find; The word's a weathercock for every wind.
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Words, once my stock, are wanting to commendSo great a poet and so good a friend.
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God never made His work for man to mend.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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'T is not for nothing that we life pursue;It pays our hopes with something still that's new.
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All, all of a piece throughout:Thy chase had a beast in view;Thy wars brought nothing about;Thy lovers were all untrue.'Tis well an old age is out,And time to begin a new.
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Like a led victim, to my death I'll go, And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow.
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Love conquers all, and we must yield to Love.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drewHis spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.