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...Dryden, as a writer, is thus given by. DRYDEtf. Dr. Johnson. " Dryden may be properly considered as the father of English criticism — as the writer who...former poets the greatest dramatist .wrote without rule, conducted through life and nature by a genius that rarely misled and never deserted him. As Dryden...

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...to determine upon principles the merit of compofition. Of our former poets, the greateft dramatift wrote without rules, conducted through life and nature by a genius that rarely milled, and rarely defertcd him. Of the reft, thofe who knew the laws of propriety had neglefted to...

...generation must mention with reverence as a critick and a poet. Dryden may be properly considered as the father of English criticism, as the writer who first taught us to determine tipon principles the merit of composition. Of our former poets, the greatest dramatist wrote without...

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