His son builds on, and never is content
Till the last farthing is in structure spent.
Quotes from Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson — John Dryden
1631–1700 England
246 quotes
Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature’s part,
Obey the rules and discipline of art.
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He, full of fraudful arts,
This well-invented tale for truth imparts.
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In easy dialogues is Fletcher’s praise:
He moved the mind, but had not pow’r to raise.
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Ganfride, who couldst so well in rhyme complain
The death of Richard, with an arrow slain.
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The rest to some faint meaning make pretence,
But Shadwell never deviates into sense.
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The hand and head were never lost of those
Who dealt in dogg’rel, or who punn’d in prose.
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No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime
On native sloth, and negligence of time.
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Her soul abhorring avarice,
Bounteous; but almost bounteous to a vice.
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The base wretch who hoards up all he can
Is praised and call’d a careful thrifty man.
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As thy strutting bags with money rise,
The love of gain is of an equal size.
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Their standard, planted on the battlement,
Despair and death among the soldiers sent.
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Thus fights Ulysses, thus his fame extends;
A formidable man, but to his friends.
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He with his sword unsheathed, on pain of life,
Commands both combatants to cease their strife.
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His absence from his mother oft he’ll mourn,
And, with his eyes, look wishes to return.
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Some souls we see
Grow hard and stiffen with adversity.
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Our green youth copies what grey sinners act,
When age commends the fact.
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His youth and age
All of a piece throughout, and all divine.
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You season still with sports your serious hours,
For age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours.
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Dryden (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.