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.

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 brother, Erasmus, was the grandfather of the famous playwright and Poet Laureate, John Dryden.

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.

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.

Dryden's sentiments about Shakespeare's matchless imagination and capacity for painting " nature " were echoed without a break in the 18th century by, for example, Joseph Addison (" Among the English, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others "), Alexander Pope (" every single character in Shakespeare is as much an Individual as those in Life itself "), and Samuel Johnson ( who scornfully dismissed Voltaire's and Rhymer's neoclassical Shakespeare criticism as " the petty cavils of petty minds ").

The character of Amnon in John Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel ( 1681 ) is thought to be based on him.

It has been said that when Tonson bought the copy of Troilus and Cressida ( 1679 ), the first play of John Dryden's that he published, he was obliged to borrow the purchase money (£ 20 ) from Abel Swalle, another bookseller.

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 ).

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

Dryden's poem tells the story of the first foment by making Monmouth into Absalom, the beloved boy, Charles into David ( who also had some philandering ), and Shaftesbury into Achitophel.

Thaïs appears as Alexander's mistress in John Dryden's poem Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Music ( 1697 ), which begins with a description of Alexander enthroned with " the lovely Thais by his side " who sat " like a blooming eastern bride ".

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 English, the phrase Noble Savage first appeared in poet Dryden's heroic play, The Conquest of Granada ( 1672 ):< poem >

* 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.

It first appeared in Wesley's Hymns for those that Seek, and those that Have Redemption ( Bristol, 1747 ), apparently intended as a Christianization of the song " Fairest Isle " sung by Venus in Act 5 of John Dryden's operatic play King Arthur ( 1691 ), on which Wesley's first stanza is modelled.

In particular, Dryden's The Conquest of Granada, which had been his most popular play ( and the one whose preface had defined " heroic drama "), is the play Buckingham parodies.

See Dryden's " Defense of An Essay of Dramatic Poesy " ( 1669 ), where Dryden tries to persuade the rather literal-minded Howard that audiences expect a play to be an imitation of nature, not a surrogate for nature itself.

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.

Hart's natural dignity in playing royal roles was also often commented on by contemporaries, and in the heroic play he " was celebrated for superman roles, notably the arrogant, bloodthirsty Almanzor in John Dryden's Conquest of Granada.

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

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.

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.

* 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.

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.