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-- Neil Dryden Lawrence, Kan.
Lest the reader think of Dryden as a stuffy purist, here he is on neologisms:
Dramatic Poesy & Other Essays, John Dryden, Everyman's Library, J.M. Dent, 1912, 1950, p. 100.
It is interesting to observe that Dryden, born only fifteen years after the death of Shakespeare, should a mere forty years later regard him as being of another age: clearly, three centuries ago people had quite a perception of time different from our own, largely, I believe, brought about by our more thorough documentation of the past hundred years in books, newspapers and other periodicals, photographs, films, and, more recently, videos.
The quotations are from Catiline, by Ben Johnson, whom Dryden held in very high regard, a most judicious writer.
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