The Poetry of John Dryden
The Poetry of John Dryden
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"Og may write against the King if he pleases, so long as he drinks for him, " he observed; "and his writings will never do the Government so much harm, as his drinking does it good; for true subjects will not be much perverted 210 THE POETRY OF JOHN DRYDEN by his libels, but the wine duties rise considerably by his claret. He has often called me an atheist in print; I would believe more charitably of him, and that he only goes the broad way because the other is too narrow for him. He may see by... this, I do not delight to meddle with his course of life, and his immoralities, though I have a long bead-roll of them. I have hitherto contented myself with the ridiculous part of him, which is enough in all con- science to employ one man: even without the story of his late fall at the Old Devil, where he broke no ribs, because the hardness of the stairs could reach no bones; and for my part, I do not wonder how he came to fall, for I have always known him heavy; the miracle is, how he got up again.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
"Og may write against the King if he pleases, so long as he drinks for him, " he observed; "and his writings will never do the Government so much harm, as his drinking does it good; for true subjects will not be much perverted 210 THE POETRY OF JOHN DRYDEN by his libels, but the wine duties rise considerably by his claret. He has often called me an atheist in print; I would believe more charitably of him, and that he only goes the broad way because the other is too narrow for him. He may see by... this, I do not delight to meddle with his course of life, and his immoralities, though I have a long bead-roll of them. I have hitherto contented myself with the ridiculous part of him, which is enough in all con- science to employ one man: even without the story of his late fall at the Old Devil, where he broke no ribs, because the hardness of the stairs could reach no bones; and for my part, I do not wonder how he came to fall, for I have always known him heavy; the miracle is, how he got up again.
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