If aught can teach us aught, Affliction's looks, Making us pry into ourselves so, near, Teach us to know ourselves, beyond all books, Or all the learned schools that ever were.
This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense; For ev'n the ears of such as have no skill, Perceive a discord, and conceive offence; And knowing not w… - Sir John Davies
This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense; For ev'n the ears of such as have no skill, Perceive a discord, and conceive offence; And knowing not w…
- Sir John Davies
We may conceive an hope that the next generation will in tongue and heart and every way else become English; so as there will be no difference or dis… - Sir John Davies
We may conceive an hope that the next generation will in tongue and heart and every way else become English; so as there will be no difference or dis…
Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly. - Sir John Davies
Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.
Thou art true and honest as a dog. - Sir John Davies
Thou art true and honest as a dog.
For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings? - Sir John Davies
For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?
Wit,--the pupil of the soul's clear eye. - Sir John Davies
Wit,--the pupil of the soul's clear eye.
Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take. - Sir John Davies
Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.
What more than madness reigns, when one short sitting many hundreds drains. - Sir John Davies
What more than madness reigns, when one short sitting many hundreds drains.
Dancing is a frenzyand a rage. - Sir John Davies
Dancing is a frenzyand a rage.
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