“The man forget not, though in rags he lies,
And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.”
Mark Akenside (1721–1770) English poet and physician
Source: Epistle to Curio (1744), Lines 197–198
“Let old Timotheus yield the prize,
Or both divide the crown;
He rais’d a mortal to the skies;
She drew an angel down.”
Source: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 167–170.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Let old Timotheus yield the prize,
Or both divide the crown;
He rais’d a mortal to the skies;
She drew an angel down." by John Dryden?
John Dryden196
English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century 1631–1700Related quotes
“I know this woman.”
“Who the hell is she?”
He stared both his brothers down. “She’s mine.”
Maya Banks (1964) Author
Source: No Place to Run
Julie Garwood (1946) American writer
Source: Honor's Splendour
Tad Williams (1957) novelist
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Stone of Farewell (1990), Chapter 25, “Petals in a Wind Storm” (pp. 626-627).
Henry Timrod (1828–1867) Poet from the American South
"Ode: Sung on the Occasion of Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C., 1867", st. 1 & 5
Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) poet, mountaineer, occultist
Source: Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972), p. 198
“The way to bliss lies not on beds of down,
And he that has no cross deserves no crown.”
Francis Quarles (1592–1644) English poet
Esther (1621), Sec. 9, Meditation 9.