How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter his feet in the shackles of a historian.
Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath. - William Davenant
Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.
- William Davenant
Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public ro… - William Davenant
Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public ro…
Go! dive into the Southern Sea, and when Th'ast found, to trouble the nice sight of men, A swelling pearl, and such whose single worth Boasts all the… - William Davenant
Go! dive into the Southern Sea, and when Th'ast found, to trouble the nice sight of men, A swelling pearl, and such whose single worth Boasts all the…
Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But Pr… - William Davenant
Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But Pr…
Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence. - William Davenant
Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.
Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve, unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour; Ambition is not tir'd… - William Davenant
Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve, unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour; Ambition is not tir'd…
Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know. - William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.
Generous souls Are still most subject to credulity. - William Davenant
Generous souls Are still most subject to credulity.
Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves. - William Davenant
Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
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