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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.

John Dryden

Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fake Lying Silence
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
JOHN DRYDEN

Force Happiness Land Winter
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
JOHN DRYDEN

Art Nature Teaching
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
JOHN DRYDEN

Nature Obligation Response Trust
The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
JOHN DRYDEN

Excitement Loud
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
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
JOHN DRYDEN

Best Silence Suffering Time
Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
JOHN DRYDEN

Admire Drama Father Himself Home Poet Writing
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
JOHN DRYDEN

Love Pain Pleasure
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
JOHN DRYDEN

Creation Dew Greatness Himself Morning Spirit
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
JOHN DRYDEN

Forgiveness Injury Wrong

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