Quotes by John Denham

John Denham

Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.

Age

Lasts

Years

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

Book

Reading

Use

But whither am I strayed? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men’s dispraise; Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built; Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign, Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain.

Brother

Kings

Son

It is no exaggeration to say that Israeli policy in the occupied territories is not simply a matter of foreign policy – it is a matter for British domestic security policy too.

British

Matter

Territory

Learn to live well, that thou may’st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do.

Life

Live Well

May

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

Genius

Ought

Translations

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

Language

Pouring

Spirit

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Knowledge

Knows

Trying

Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.

Fate

Pride

Writing

Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those made not poets, but the poets those.

Dream

May

Taste

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Quotes by John Denham

John Denham

Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

But whither am I strayed? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men’s dispraise; Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built; Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign, Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain.

It is no exaggeration to say that Israeli policy in the occupied territories is not simply a matter of foreign policy – it is a matter for British domestic security policy too.

Learn to live well, that thou may’st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do.

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.

Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those made not poets, but the poets those.

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