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Almost Quotes by John Dryden
- Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi in Christendome) that…
- He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise…
- Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words.
- It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language) often expresses that…
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