John Dryden Quote

He needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature: he looked inwards, and found her there…He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great.

On shakespeare

An Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668)


He needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature: he looked inwards, and found her there…He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit...

He needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature: he looked inwards, and found her there…He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit...

He needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature: he looked inwards, and found her there…He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit...

He needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature: he looked inwards, and found her there…He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit...