His next piece of authorship was to translate the sixth elegy of the third book of Ovid's Tristia for Dryden's Miscellany Poems ( 1692, p. 148 ).

Pete was characterized as easy going, joyful, and a party-goer in Ken Dryden's book The Game.

The play contains two songs, " Why Should a Foolish Marriage Vow " by Robert Smith and " Whilst Alexis Lay Pressed " by Nicholas Staggins, both set to Dryden's lyrics and printed in the 1673 book Choice Songs and Ayres for One Voyce to Sing to the Theorbo-Lute or Bass-Viol.

John Dryden's masque King Arthur is still performed, largely thanks to Henry Purcell's music, though seldom unabridged.

A common example is John Dryden's MacFlecknoe, a poem that ridicules Dryden's contemporary, Thomas Shadwell.

The hero who speaks these words in Dryden's play is a Spanish Muslim, who, at the end of the play, in keeping with the requirements of a heroic drama, is revealed to have been, unbeknownst to himself, the son of a Christian prince ( since heroic plays by definition had noble and exemplary protagonists ).

Dryden's use of the phrase is a striking oxymoron.

John Dryden's 1690 Amphitryon is based on Molière's 1668 version as well as on Plautus.

Notable innovations from Dryden's adaptation include music by Henry Purcell and the character of Phaedra, who flirts with Sosia but is eventually won over by Mercury ’ s promises of wealth.

The familiar phrase “ Man proposes: God disposes ” is an example of antithesis, as is John Dryden's description in The Hind and the Panther: “ Too black for heaven, and yet too white for hell .”

One of his masterpieces of this period is the depiction of an amateur performance of John Dryden's The Indian Emperor, or The Conquest of Mexico ( 1732 – 1735 ) at the home of John Conduitt, master of the mint, in St George's Street, Hanover Square.

Dryden's eastern boundary is located near Aaron Provincial Park on Thunder Lake.

Dryden's mayor is Craig Nuttall.

Dryden is known by people passing by as the home of " Max the Moose ", Dryden's high mascot on the Trans-Canada Highway.

), English dramatist and poet, the object of Dryden's satire, was probably of English birth, although there is no corroboration of the suggestion of Joseph Gillow, that he was a nephew of a Jesuit priest, William Flecknoe, or more properly Flexney, of Oxford.

* May 5-Within a few days of John Dryden's death ( May 1 ), his last written work, The Secular Masque, is performed as part of Vanbrugh's version of The Pilgrim.

* In response to events of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, John Dryden's topical play Amboyna, about events in the East Indies, is reportedly " contrived and written in a month " — certainly one of the fastest acts of solo dramatic composition known.

John Dryden's version is the work of a stronger artist ; but Conington's is more faithful, preserves the general effect of the original, and stands as an independent poem.

John Dryden's work Absalom and Achitophel is a satire partially concerned with equating biblical events with the Monmouth Rebellion.

What is interesting is that the word " parody " had not been used for prose before, and the definition he offers is arguably a parody of John Dryden defining " parody " in the Discourse of Satire ( the Preface to Dryden's translations of Juvenal's and Persius ' satires ).

Shadwell is chiefly remembered as the unfortunate Mac Flecknoe of Dryden's satire, the " last great prophet of tautology ," and the literary son and heir of Richard Flecknoe:

In John Dryden's satire, Absalom and Achitophel, he is " Hushai ," the friend of David in distress.

The four speakers represented, respectively, Sir William Davenant " ingenious " collaborator on their revision of The Tempest, Sir Robert Howard and Dryden's brother-in-law, the earl of Orrery Boyle, author of the first heroic play in rhymed couplets, and Dryden himself ( neander means " new man " and implies that Dryden, as a respected member of the gentry class, is entitled to join in this dialogue on an equal footing with the three older men who are his social superiors ).

In addition, events of the five years of James's reign quickly rendered the adulatory allegory of Dryden's machinery no longer current.

However, Pope's poem is far more wide-ranging and specific than Dryden's had been.

To some degree, this imagery of unholy consecration had been present in Dryden's MacFlecknoe, but Pope's King of Dunces is much more menacing than Thomas Shadwell could ever have been in Dryden's poem.

The growth of Shakespeare's reputation is illustrated by a timeline of Shakespeare criticism, from John Dryden's " when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too " ( 1668 ) to Thomas Carlyle's estimation of Shakespeare as the " strongest of rallying-signs " ( 1841 ) for an English identity.

In the seventeenth century it spawned numerous imitative titles, including John Dryden's great poem, Religio Laici, but none matched the frank, intimate tone of the original in which the learned doctor invites the reader to share with him in the labyrinthine mysteries and idiosyncratic views of his personality.

His first London appearance was in 1704 as Dominick, in Dryden's Spanish Friar, and he continued to take important parts at Drury Lane, being the original Pounce in Steele's Tender Husband ( 1705 ), Sergeant Kite in Farquhar's Recruiting Officer, and Sir Francis Gripe in Mrs Centlivre's Busybody.

* The complete text of Davenant and Dryden's adaptation of The Tempest

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Dryden's use of the term for the title of his poem constitutes the first known written use of the phrase in an English text.

A poll found that Dryden's potential pool of support exceeded that of his opponents, due mainly to his former NHL career.

While Dryden's own plays would themselves furnish later mock-heroics ( specifically, The Conquest of Granada is satirized in the mock-heroic The Author's Farce and Tom Thumb by Henry Fielding, as well as The Rehearsal ), Dryden's MacFlecknoe is perhaps the locus classicus of the mock-heroic form as it would be practiced for a century to come.

By taking Dryden's own words out of context and pasting them together, Buckingham disrupts whatever emotions that might have gone with them originally and exposes their inherent absurdity.

Dryden's innovation is a notable turn in poetic diction in England, as he was attempting to find an English meter and vocabulary that could correspond to the ancient Latin heroic verse structure.

Here are three examples from Book IV of Dryden's translation of the Aeneid.

In 1687, he resumed his connection with the theatre by furnishing the music for Dryden's tragedy, Tyrannick Love.

In 1690, he composed the music for Betterton's adaptation of Fletcher and Massinger's Prophetess ( afterwards called Dioclesian ) and Dryden's Amphitryon.

Perhaps the outstanding example was John Dryden's English version of the poems of Virgil, published in 1697.

For example, Dryden's All for Love, a redaction of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, attempted to compress the sprawl of action and multiple settings from Egypt to Rome to a single place, and within a 24 hour time frame.

In English the phrase first appeared in the 17th century in John Dryden's heroic play, The Conquest of Granada ( 1672 ), where it was used by a Christian prince disguised as a Spanish Muslim to refer to himself, but it later became identified with the idealized picture of " nature's gentleman ", which was an aspect of 18th-century sentimentalism.

Pope's phrase, " Lo the Poor Indian ", became almost as famous as Dryden's " noble savage " and, in the 19th century, when more people began to have first hand knowledge of and conflict with the Indians, would be used derisively for similar sarcastic effect.

( Interestingly, Dickens's essay refers back to Dryden's well-known use of the term, not to Rousseau.

Hogarth, as well as Mark Sykes and Henry McMahon, who historically fulfilled Dryden's role as a political liaison.

Dryden's successor Shadwell originated annual birthday and New Year odes.

* John Dryden's play All for Love was deeply influenced by Shakespeare's treatment of the subject.

Dryden's replacement as the Airplane's drummer was Joey Covington, an L. A. musician who had been sitting in with Hot Tuna during 1969.

Literary critic Anthony W. Lee notes in his essay " Dryden's Cinyras and Myrrha " that this translation, along with several others, can be interpreted as a subtle comment on the political scene of the late seventeenth-century England.

* In John Dryden's poem The Secular Masque, Momus mocks the gods Diana, Mars, and Venus for the vanity of what they represent among human beings.

In 1687, Montagu joined with Matthew Prior in " The City Mouse and the Country Mouse ," a burlesque of John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther.