<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419885" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To my Honor'd Friend, Dr. Charleton (excerpt)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The longest tyranny that ever sway'd<br> Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd<br> Their free-born reason to the Stagirite,<br> And made his torch their universal light.<br> So truth, while only one supplied the state,<br> Grew scarce, and dear, and yet sophisticate;<br> Until 't was bought, like emp'ric wares, or charms,<br> Hard words seal'd up with Aristotle's arms.<br> Columbus was the first that shook his throne,<br> And found a temp'rate in a torrid zone:<br> The fev'rish air fann'd by a cooling breeze,<br> The fruitful vales set round with shady trees;<br> And guiltless men, who danc'd away their time,<br> Fresh as their groves, and happy as their clime.<br> Had we still paid that homage to a name,<br> Which only God and Nature justly claim,<br> The western seas had been our utmost bound,<br> Where poets still might dream the sun was drown'd:<br> And all the stars that shine in southern skies<br> Had been admir'd by none but savage eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Among th' asserters of free reason's claim,<br> Th' English are not the least in worth, or fame.<br> The world to Bacon does not only owe<br> Its present knowledge, but its future too.<br> Gilbert shall live, till loadstones cease to draw,<br> Or British fleets the boundless ocean awe.<br> And noble Boyle, not less in nature seen,<br> Than his great brother read in states and men.<br> The circling streams, once thought but pools, of blood<br> (Whether life's fuel or the body's food),<br> From dark oblivion Harvey's name shall save;<br> While Ent keeps all the honour that he gave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Dryden">John Dryden</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419885" data-title="To my Honor'd Friend, Dr. Charleton (excerpt) de John Dryden" data-description="The longest tyranny that ever sway'd Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd Their free-born reason to the Stagirite, And made his torch their universal light. So truth, while only one supplied the state, Grew scarce, and dear, and yet sophis..."></div> </div> </div>

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