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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.

John Dryden

If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
JOHN DRYDEN

Bound Habit Slave Vice
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
JOHN DRYDEN

Lost Mild Rage Sea Wind
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
JOHN DRYDEN

Eyes Heaven Nature
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
JOHN DRYDEN

Beware Man Patience
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
JOHN DRYDEN

King Mad Moments Nation
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fresh Object Pity Sight
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
JOHN DRYDEN

Equality Life Live Right
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
JOHN DRYDEN

Performance Quick Slow
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
JOHN DRYDEN

Bold Fear Greatness Mask
All empire is no more than power in trust.
JOHN DRYDEN

Empire Power Trust
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
JOHN DRYDEN

Beginning Growth Small
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
JOHN DRYDEN

Character Kind Man Natural Painting Person Poetry
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
JOHN DRYDEN

Life Past
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
JOHN DRYDEN

Fury Revenge See
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
JOHN DRYDEN

Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul

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