Famous Quotes | Here stopped the good old sire,...
Here stopped the good old sire, and wept for joy
In silent raptures of the hopeful boy.
All arguments, but most his plays, persuade
That for anointed dullness he was made.
- John Dryden
Attribution: John Dryden (1631–1700), British poet. Alternative title, A Satire upon the True-Blue Protestant Poet T.S... MacFlecknoe; or, A Satire upon the True-Blue Protestant Poet T.S. (l. 60–63). . . Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938) Oxford University Press.
Categories: Dullness
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