The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq., Vol. 1 of 9 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq., Vol. 1 of 9

I have obferv'd in your Speech, that the former Part of it is convincing, as to what the Modems have profited by the Rules of the Ancients; but in the latter you are careful to conceal how much they have excell'd them We own all the Helps we have from them, and want neither Veneration nor Gratitude, while we acknow ledge, that to overcome them we muft make ufi: of the Advantages we have received from them; but to theie Affii'rances we have join'd° our own Induflry; we fate down with a dull Imitation of them) we might then have loll fomewhat of the old Perfcétion, but no ver ac uir'd any that was new. We draw not there fore er their Lines, but thofe of Nature; and having the Life before us, befides the Experience of all they knew, it is no wonder if we hit fome Airs and Fea tures which they have mifs'd.

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