John Dryden
John Dryden
John Drydenwas an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668...
cheating consider favour fooled former men trust
When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. Yet, fooled by hope, men favour the deceit; trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: to-morrow's falser than the former day.
cheat consider deceit deception favour men
When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat yet, fool'd by hope, men favour the deceit
excites loud
The trumpet's loud clangour / Excites us to arms.
glorious sons treason
During his office, treason was no crime. / The sons of Belial had a glorious time.
fond harmless household meant nature silly
Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
numbness mind lazy
A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind.
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.
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.
fountain perpetual good-sense
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
parting
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
glad
The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, / The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!