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The great age of English satire began with Dryden, who perfected the epigrammatic and antithetical use of the heroic couplet for this purpose.
He was a friend of Dryden, for several of whose plays he wrote prologues and epilogues.
Dryden accidentally clipped the notorious bruiser across the nose with his stick.
Or Eliot, who wrote on the Metaphysicals, Marvell, Dryden, Blake, Wordsworth, Baudelaire and, of course, Dante, as well as many other writers.
John Dryden prescribed paraphrase, but later advocated a point between paraphrase and metaphrase.
Dryden added that the same testosterone-to-estrogen process, called aromatization, also occurs in older males.
Ann is a pleasant brunette, a former class officer, yearbook editor, and member of the softball team at Dryden High.
For Dryden, the contrast between the First and Second Temples is symbolic of the relationship between contemporary Caroline poetry and that of the great Jacobeans.
He was really keyed up, more excited than Dryden had ever seen him.
Katie graduated from Dryden and went on to the State University of New York at Oswego.
She was released last summer and is taking classes at Tompkins-Cortland Community College in Dryden.
The Starr sisters are visiting my room at the Best Western Hotel outside Dryden.
The Cheerleaders by e. Jean Carroll from Spin, June 2001 Welcome to Dryden.
The Dryden translation is a little harder to get into with its deliberate archaisms and anastrophes, but once you do it's very rhythmic and compelling.
Dryden is also one of the first writers of English literary criticism.
It must be allowed that Dryden would have been hard-pressed to find another episode from ancient epic which so peculiarly recalled recent history.
The Indian Queen was adapted from a tragedy by Dryden and Sir Robert Howard.
The title of Poet Laureate, as a royal office, was first conferred by letters patent on John Dryden in 1670, two years after Davenant's death.
The authors most frequently cited by Johnson include Shakespeare, Milton and Dryden.
The folio edition also features full literary quotes by those authors that Johnson quoted, such as Dryden and Shakespeare.
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Dryden and Scott were not known as authors until each was in his fortieth year.
During the great plague in London, 1665, Dryden fled with his wife to Charleton.
Of these dramatic productions of Dryden during the first ten years of his laureateship some were very carefully written.
Dryden and Congreve, however, appear to have been addicted to the pleasant pastime.
The poet Dryden, and the epigrammatist Owen, celebrated him in still briefer verse.
He is perhaps weakest, like all poets with the signal exception of Dryden, when he is panegyrical.
Milton saw nothing in the first efforts of Dryden that made him consider Dryden better than a rhymester.
For several years after annus mirabilis, Dryden produced but little poetry apart from his dramas.
After Dryden returned to blank verse for dramatic writing, heroic verse ceased to be employed for this purpose.
He is said to have got more by this distich than Mr. Dryden did by all his works.
Planning row killer Albert Dryden is making a bid for freedom 12 years after gunning down a council officer.
He was surrounded and followed by many imitators, and it is well to remember Dryden as the greatest of them all.
You remember the story of Cymon and Iphigenia as Dryden tells it.
In the case of Dryden there is nothing to countervail this presumption.
This verdict has been as good as unanimous in favor of Dryden.
Dryden is similarly restrained by the thought of his readers.
To Shadwell was given the laureateship of which Dryden was deprived.
In the hands of Dryden the Elves of Chaucer lose their indefiniteness.
Dryden measures himself with Juvenal, Lucretius, and Virgil.
John Dryden was the son of a Northamptonshire gentleman who had a small estate and a large family, for John was the eldest of fourteen children.
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