John Dryden
John Dryden
John Drydenwas an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668...
zeal all-things
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
i-miss-you missing-you long-distance-relationship
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
second-thoughts
Second thoughts, they say, are best.
woe pity my-own
I learn to pity woes so like my own.
infinity finite
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
imagination might shut-up
Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless that, like a high ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant. He is tempted to say many things which might better be omitted, or, at least shut up in fewer words.
imagination soul enthusiasm
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.
triumph praise commendation
The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted.
sublime age noble
One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.
fountain perpetual good-sense
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
plenty sufficient
It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
scripture corruption clear
And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
flesh red way
Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.
parting
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!