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John Denham: Frasi in inglese
John Denham Cooper's Hill
Cooper's Hill, Line 189.
Contesto: Oh, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream
My great example, as it is my theme!
Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull;
Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full.
“Ambition is like love, impatient
Both of delays and rivals.”
The Sophy: A Tragedy, Act I, scene ii.
“We're ne'er like angels till our passion dies.”
Not by Denham, as often stated, but by Thomas Dekker. It is in his The Honest Whore Part 2, Act I, scene 2.
Misattributed
On Mr. John Fletcher's Works. Compare: "Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill", Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, Prologues (republished in Dramatic Works, 1739); "Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne", Alexander Pope, Prologue to the Satires, line 197.
“Nor ought a genius less than his that writ
Attempt translation.”
To Sir Richard Fanshaw, Upon his Translation of Pastor Fido, line 9.
The Destruction of Troy (1656), Preface.
“Actions o' th' last age are like almanacks o' th' last year.”
The Sophy: A Tragedy (1642), Act I, scene ii.
To Sir Richard Fanshaw, Upon his Translation of Pastor Fido, line 15.
“Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate,
That few but such as cannot write, translate.”
To Sir Richard Fanshaw, Upon his Translation of Pastor Fido (1648), line 1.
“Let not the pleasing many thee delight,
First judge if those whom thou dost please judge right.”
Origine: Of Prudence (1668), line 229
“Wisdom's first progress is to take a view
What's decent or indecent, false or true.”
Origine: Of Prudence (1668), line 1
Origine: Of Prudence (1668), line 225
Origine: Of Prudence (1668), line 11
