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Virgil and Horace [were] the severest writers of the severest age.

Virgil and Horace [were] the severest writers of the severest age.

John Dryden
Age
1677 'The Author's Apology for Heroic Poetry and Heroic Licence', an essay prefacing State of Innocence, a libretto based on Paradise Lost.

For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.

John Dryden
Age, Taste, Youth
John Dryden (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden. With Illustrations by John Franklin”, p.260

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

John Dryden
Birthday, Strong, Age

Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.

John Dryden
Age, Genius, Study
'An Essay of Dramatic Poesy' (1668)

Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.

John Dryden
Thinking, Age, Creeps
Juvenal, John Dryden, Nahum Tate, Persius, Richard Duke (1713). “The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis: and of Aulus Persius Flaccus”, p.150

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 both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two.

John Dryden
Nature, Two, Age
John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.139

These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.

John Dryden
Doubt, Age, Care
John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden now first collected ...”, p.426

One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.

John Dryden
Sublime, Age, Noble
John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.2797, Delphi Classics

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