If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
JOHN DRYDENIf by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
JOHN DRYDENWe by art unteach what Nature taught.
JOHN DRYDENVirgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
JOHN DRYDENMuch malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
JOHN DRYDENBeware the fury of a patient man.
JOHN DRYDENHe who would search for pearls must dive below.
JOHN DRYDENImagining 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 DRYDENAll things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
JOHN DRYDENDeathless laurel is the victor’s due.
JOHN DRYDENSatire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
JOHN DRYDENShakespeare 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 DRYDENGriefs assured are felt before they come.
JOHN DRYDENThe sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
JOHN DRYDENKeen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
JOHN DRYDENReason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
JOHN DRYDENZeal, the blind conductor of the will.
JOHN DRYDEN