 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 strani
...lest any should think me so exceeding vain as to teach others an art which they understand much be1ter than myself. But if this incorrect essay, written...myself a better success of the second part, wherein the virtues and faults of the English poets who have written either in this, the epic, or the lyric... | |
 | John Dryden - 312 strani
...unjustly prefer the French before them. This I intimate, lest any should think me so exceeding vain as to teach others an art which they understand much better than myself. But this is more than necessary to clear my modesty in that point, and I am very confident that there is... | |
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The drift of the ensuing discourse is chiefly to vindicate the honour of our English writers from the censure of those who unjustly prefer the French before them. This I intimate, lest any should think me so exceeding vain, as to teach others an art,... 
