Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
JOHN DRYDEN
JOHN DRYDEN
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
John DrydenJohn Dryden While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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John DrydenJohn Dryden Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Hushed as midnight silence.
John DrydenJohn Dryden They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
John DrydenJohn Dryden For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
John DrydenJohn Dryden If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Order is the greatest grace.
John DrydenJohn Dryden An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
John DrydenJohn Dryden For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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