
John Oldham
John Oldham (August 9, 1653 – December 9, 1683) was an English satirical poet and translator.
Quotes
- Altho' your frailer part must yield to Fate,
By every breach in that fair lodging made,
Its blest inhabitant is more displayed.- To Madam L. E. on her Recovery, 106; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).
- And should you visit now the seats of bliss,
You need not wear another form but this.- To Madam L. E. on her Recovery, 116; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).
- Curse on the man who business first designed,
And by't enthralled a freeborn lover's mind!- Complaining of Absence, 11; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).
- While some no other cause for life can give
But a dull habitude to live.- To the Memory of Norwent, Paragraph 5; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).
- Ah, dearer than my soul…
Dearer than light, or life, or fame.- Lament for Saul and Jonathan; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).
- I wear my Pen as others do their Sword.
To each affronting sot I meet, the word
Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go,
And pointed satire runs him through and through.- Satire upon a Printer, line 36; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).
- Lord of myself, accountable to none,
But to my conscience, and my God alone.- Satire addressed to a Friend, line 36; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).
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