John Dyer Quotes

“Disparting towers
Trembling all precipitate down dash’d,
Rattling around, loud thundering to the moon.”

John Dyer

The Ruins of Rome (1740), line 40.

“Ever charming, ever new,
When will the landscape tire the view?”

John Dyer Grongar Hill

Grongar Hill (1727), line 102.

“A little rule, a little sway,
A sunbeam in a winter’s day,
Is all the proud and mighty have
Between the cradle and the grave.”

John Dyer Grongar Hill

Grongar Hill (1727), line 88.

“A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honors, without learning, without friends; but he can never go there without Christ.”

John Dyer

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 88.