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Sir John Denham FRS war ein irischer Schriftsteller.

✵ 1615 – 10. März 1669
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“Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull;
Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full.”

John Denham Cooper's Hill

Cooper's Hill, Line 189.
Kontext: Oh, 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.

“We're ne'er like angels till our passion dies.”

John Denham

Not by Denham, as often stated, but by Thomas Dekker. It is in his The Honest Whore Part 2, Act I, scene 2.
Misattributed

“But whither am I strayed? I need not raise
Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise;
Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built;
Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt
Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign,
Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain.”

John Denham

On Mr. John Fletcher's Works. Compare: "Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill", Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, Prologues (republished in Dramatic Works, 1739); "Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne", Alexander Pope, Prologue to the Satires, line 197.

“Nor ought a genius less than his that writ
Attempt translation.”

John Denham

To Sir Richard Fanshaw, Upon his Translation of Pastor Fido, line 9.

“Actions o' th' last age are like almanacks o' th' last year.”

John Denham

The Sophy: A Tragedy (1642), Act I, scene ii.

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

John Denham

To Sir Richard Fanshaw, Upon his Translation of Pastor Fido (1648), line 1.

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