More from John (dramatist) Ford

  1. Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; The sweetest freedom is an honest heart.
  2. Ford was of the first order of poets. He sought for sublimity, not by parcels in metaphors or visible images, but directly where she has he…
  3. He is a noble gentleman; withal Happy in his endeavours: the general voice Sounds him for courtesy, behaviour, language, And every fair dem…
  4. Ford is rather a sculptor of character than a painter.
  5. Why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an…
  6. Busy opinion is an idle fool.
  7. There is a place, List, daughter! in a black and hollow vault, Where day is never seen; there shines no sun, But flaming horror of consumin…
  8. Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow.

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