John Denham Quotes

Youth, what man’s age is like to be doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

Old Mother Wit, and Nature gave Shakespeare and Fletcher all they have; In Spenser, and in Jonson, Art Of slower Nature got the start.

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

O 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.

Can knowledge have no bound, but must advance So far, to make us wish for ignorance?