I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
JOHN DRYDENI saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
JOHN DRYDENFaith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
JOHN DRYDENLuxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
JOHN DRYDENWhen I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
JOHN DRYDENFew know the use of life before ’tis past.
JOHN DRYDENPride – Lord of human kind.
JOHN DRYDENFame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
JOHN DRYDENBe slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
JOHN DRYDENPresent joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
JOHN DRYDENHe who would search for pearls must dive below.
JOHN DRYDENHe invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
JOHN DRYDENWhen we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
JOHN DRYDENAll authors to their own defects are blind.
JOHN DRYDENThey think too little who talk too much.
JOHN DRYDENRiches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
JOHN DRYDENAmong our crimes oblivion may be set.
JOHN DRYDEN