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 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.

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.

The movie, which is influenced by Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector, centers around two Mexicans who are mistaken for government inspectors from Mexico City by the corrupt mayor of a small town.

It is unlikely that the term " democracy " was coined by its detractors who rejected the possibility of a valid " demarchy ", as the word " demarchy " already existed and had the meaning of mayor or municipal.

The mayor presides over and is a voting member of the council.

A mayor is elected every two years.

The city is governed by a " strong " mayor system who appoints two council members and / or city residents to serve at the mayor's pleasure on the board of public works and safety.

It is used for receptions of guests of the town, and as an office for the mayor.

Each borough is governed by a borough council ( Bezirksamt ) consisting of five councilors ( Bezirksstadträte ) and a borough mayor ( Bezirksbürgermeister ).

The mayor as of 2010 is Winni Grosbøll, a member of the Social Democrats ( Socialdemokraterne ) political party.

The city's former mayor, Darwin Hindman, is largely in favor of a non-motorized transportation system, and can often be seen riding his bicycle around the city.

The mayor is elected in a citywide vote to a four year term.

The crooked town's mayor, Hiram J. Slade ( Samuel S. Hinds ), who is in collusion with Kent, appoints the town drunk, Washington Dimsdale ( Charles Winninger ), as the new sheriff, assuming that he'll be easy to control and manipulate.

But what the mayor doesn't know is that Dimsdale was a deputy under the famous lawman, Tom Destry and is able to call upon the equally formidable Tom Destry, Jr. ( James Stewart ) to help him make Bottleneck a lawful, respectable town.

* 1724 – Tumult of Thorn – religious unrest is followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn ( Toruń ) by Polish authorities.

* 1993 – The mayor of Wien ( Vienna ), Helmut Zilk, is wounded by a letter bomb.

John Hawley or Hauley, a licensed privateer and sometime mayor of Dartmouth is reputed to be a model for Chaucer's " schipman ".

As of 2012, the mayor of Davenport is Bill Gluba.

The mayor is top elected individual for the city.

The city administrator, currently Craig Malin, is appointed by the mayor with confirmation by two-thirds of the council.

The current mayor is Luizianne Lins a former academic at the local Federal University of Ceará and well known feminist.

* LaGuardia Place, a street in Greenwich Village which runs from Houston Street to Washington Square, is named for La Guardia ; there is also a statue of the mayor on that street.

During the supernatural chaos towards the end of the film, LaGuardia is said to have come back to talk to the current mayor of New York in his bedroom for an hour and a half, despite LaGuardia's being " dead for forty years ".

In 2010 Geneva City Council was made up of two representatives of the SDP ( Social Democratic Party, one of whom is the mayor ), one member of the FDP ( Free Democratic Party ), one member of the Green Party and one member of the À gauche Toute party.

The current mayor of Gilbert Plains is Lyle Smith.