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Poet Quotes by John Dryden
- He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
- He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . . He was naturally…
- Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned…
- 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…
- Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in…
- Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words.
- Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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