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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.

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.

John Dryden
Father, Writing, Patterns
1668 An Essay of Dramatic Poesy,'Shakespeare and Ben Jonson Compared'.

And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.

John Dryden
Time, Writing, Brass
John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.77

Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.

John Dryden
Revenge, Writing, Spite
John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.409

Learn to write well, or not to write at all.

John Dryden
Writing, Learning, Wells
John Dryden (1855). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.93

The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies.

John Dryden
Writing, Enemy, Vices
John Dryden (1850). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.123

Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no further knows, For to write verse with him is to transprose.

John Dryden
Writing, Men, May
John Dryden, George Gilfillan (1857). “Poetical Works: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes”, p.139

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