John Dyer

John Dyer (1699 – 15 December 1757) was a Welsh poet who wrote in the English language.

Quotes

 * A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter’s day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.
 * Grongar Hill (1727), line 88.


 * Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view?
 * Grongar Hill (1727), line 102.


 * Disparting towers Trembling all precipitate down dash’d, Rattling around, loud thundering to the moon.
 * The Ruins of Rome (1740), line 40.


 * A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honors, without learning, without friends; but he can never go there without Christ.
 * Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 88.