John Dryden Quotes About Nature

Quotes about: Nature

• Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two.

  John Dryden

  Nature, Two, Age

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.139

• The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.

  John Dryden

  Nature, Eye, Science

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (1995). “The Poems of John Dryden: 1693-1696”, p.302, Pearson Education

• By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.

  John Dryden

  Art, Nature, Tails

  'Annus Mirabilis' (1667) st. 155

• We by art unteach what Nature taught.

  John Dryden

  Art, Nature, Taught

  John Dryden, John Loftis, Vinton A. Dearing (1967). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume IX: Plays: The Indian Emperour, Secret Love, Sir Martin Mar-all”, p.30, Univ of California Press

• Nature meant me
  A wife, a silly, harmless, household dove,
  Fond without art, and kind without deceit.

  John Dryden

  Art, Nature, Silly

  "All for Love".

• For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

  John Dryden

  Art, Nature, Missing

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.194

• To die is landing on some distant shore.

  John Dryden

  Life, Death, Nature

• Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her.

  John Dryden

  Nature, Chaucer

  John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: With Life and Critical Dissertation”, p.194

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