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

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.

* 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.

Eccles was very active as a composer for the theatre, and from the 1690s wrote a large amount of incidental music including music for William Congreve's Love for Love, John Dryden's The Spanish Friar and William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

He was the author of The Rehearsal, an amusing and clever satire on the heroic drama and especially on Dryden's The Conquest of Granada ( first performed on 7 December 1671, at the Theatre Royal, and first published in 1672 ), a deservedly popular play which was imitated by Henry Fielding in Tom Thumb the Great, and by Sheridan in The Critic.

), 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.

The forcefully masculine 45-year-old Hart " was celebrated for superman roles, notably the arrogant, bloodthirsty Almanzor in John Dryden's Conquest of Granada ", and also for playing rakish comedy heroes with nonchalance and charisma.

Compared to most other goaltending greats ( and Hockey Hall of Fame players ), Dryden's NHL career was extremely short: just over seven full seasons.

Dryden's position was abolished, in favour of having both the Leafs and Raptors managers reporting directly to MLSE President and CEO Richard Peddie.

While campaigning, a letter sent to Dryden by Ya ' acov Brosh, Consul-General of Israel in Toronto was put in Dryden's campaign literature, allegedly without Brosh's permission.

Dryden's largest change, though, was in the character of Cressida, who in his play is loyal to Troilus throughout.

Pope had translated Homer and produced an errant edition of William Shakespeare, and the 1727 Dunciad was an updating and redirection of John Dryden's poison-pen battle of MacFlecknoe.

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 ).

His number 25 jersey was retired by Cornell in 2010, shared with Ken Dryden's number 1 as the first such numbers retired by the hockey team, and believed the first in any sport in the school's varsity sports history.

It was the second-most saves by a goaltender in a Stanley Cup Finals game, coming within four stops of Canadiens goaltender Ken Dryden's 56 saves in 1971 against the Chicago Blackhawks.

Sedley is famous as a patron of literature in the Restoration period, and was the Francophile Lisideius of Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy.

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.

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

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.

) However, for readers and viewers what was most delightful was the way that Buckingham effectively punctures the puffed up bombast of Dryden's plays.

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.

Her most famous role was the loving and trustful Queen Statira in Dryden's The Rival Queens ( 17 March 1677 ).

Gould was infuriated by Dryden's change of religion, and his Jack Squab ( a reference to the Laureate being paid with food as well as brandy ) was one of the most vicious ( and uncharacteristically crude, for Gould ) attacks made on Dryden.

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

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" Other theories include those in Johann Friedrich Breithaupt's Christliche Helden Insel Malta (), published in 1632, where he calls Maltese a mixed ' barbaric ' language and John Dryden's description of the language as ' Berber ' on his visit to the islands ( the memoirs of those journeys appeared in 1776 ).

* John Dryden's All for Love

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

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

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 .”

* 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.

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.

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.

Notable heroic tragedies of this period include John Dryden's All for Love ( 1677 ) and Aureng-zebe ( 1675 ), and Thomas Otway's Venice Preserved ( 1682 ).

Among his more successful productions were some Shakespeare plays, including: Hamlet, Henry VIII, and Macbeth, as well as non-Shakespeare plays such as Sir Samuel Tuke's The Tragedy of Five Hours and John Dryden's comedy Sir Martin Marall.

He also wrote incidental music for John Dryden's Conquest of Granada and Marriage à la Mode, George Etheridge's The Man of Mode, Nathaniel Lee's Gloriana, and Thomas Shadwell's Epsom Wells.

He adapted Robert Cambert's opera Ariadne for a London performance in 1674, and wrote music for John Dryden's Albion and Albanius in 1685.

He also wrote the masque Peleus and Thetis and songs for John Dryden's Secular Masque, incidental music for William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Cymbeline, Romeo and Juliet and The Winter's Tale, and a quantity of chamber music including a set of twelve trio sonatas.

With John Dryden's assistance he translated Molière's L ' Etourdi as Sir Martin Mar-All ( 1688 ).

* 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.