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Dryden in his time & ours.(John Dryden)(Critical essay)

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From: New Criterion
Date: 20061001
Author:Stove, R.J.

The passionate intellect really is passionate. It is the only point at which ecstasy can enter. I do not know whether we can be saved by the intellect, but I do know that I can be saved by nothing else.

--Dorothy L. Sayers

The Whig dogs should not have the best of it.

--Dr. Johnson

In 1672 (we owe this anecdote to Aubrey's Brief Lives), two great authors, both called John, had one of the strangest meetings that literature can reveal. The older scribe: Milton, sixty-four years old, blind, a grudgingly tolerated Cromwellian relic, able famously to inspire ...

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