William Congreve
William Congreve
William Congrevewas an English playwright and poet...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth24 January 1670
becomes best picture sort tenderness
Yes, but tenderness becomes me best - a sort of dyingness - you see that picture has a sort of a - ha, Foible? A swimmingness in the eyes.
fire lost proper rude shock smoke
Nature, to each allots his proper Sphere, But, that forsaken, we like Comets err: Toss'd thro' the Void, by some rude Shock we're broke, And all our boasted Fire is lost in Smoke
pale till veracity
If I have not fretted myself till I am pale again, there's no veracity in me.
bliss grateful hours oft present though
In hours of bliss we oft have met: They could not always last; And though the present I regret, I'm grateful for the past.
bliss grateful hours oft present though
In hours of bliss we oft have met:They could not always last;And though the present I regret,I'm grateful for the past.
branch fellows flood wash
A branch of one of your antediluvian families, fellows that the flood could not wash away.
great married strange
Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.
bend charms english-poet hath music savage soothe
Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
boxes cheering ears fill happier hearts lives love sealed speak tenderness thrilled until words
Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them.
alluring couch disorder meet rise
Rise to meet him in a pretty disorder - yes- O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.
rise sun thee till
Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise
hope prone
I hope you do not think me prone to an iteration of nuptials.
leisure married repent
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
heart marry purely rid
I could find it in my heart to marry thee, purely to be rid of thee.