John Dryden Quotes About Art
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Nature meant me A wife, a silly, harmless, household dove, Fond without art, and kind without deceit.
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By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.
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Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Arts and sciences in one and the same century have arrived at great perfection; and no wonder, since every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies; the work then, being pushed on by many hands, must go forward.
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Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts.
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So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade.
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