John Dryden Quotes About Pleasure
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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There is an inimitable grace in Virgil's words, and in them principally consists that beauty which gives so inexpressible a pleasure to him who best understands their force. This diction of his, I must once again say, is never to be copied; and since it cannot, he will appear but lame in the best translation.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure- Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying. If all the world be worth the winning, Think, oh think it worth enjoying: Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee.
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe.
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Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
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When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow 's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. Strange cozenage! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give.
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But dying is a pleasure / When living is a pain.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,- Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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