“Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations
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Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Containing the Original Poems, Tales, and Translations
Source: Poetical Works: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes
“If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.”
Source: Fables, from Boccaccio and Chaucer
“Few know the use of life before 'tis past.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden,: The life of John Dryden
Source: The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: Don Sebastian, king of Portugal. Amphitryon: or, The two Sosia's. Cleomenes, the Spartan heroe. King Arthur. Love triumphant
“Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.”
“There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.”
“Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden, Volume XX: Prose 1691-1698 De Arte Graphica and Shorter Works
“Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden