The song " Lather ", appearing on the Airplane's Crown of Creation, is said to have been written by Grace Slick on the occasion of Dryden's 30th birthday.

This was to be both Jefferson Airplane's founder Marty Balin and drummer Spencer Dryden's last album with the group, ( although they did both appear on the " Mexico " single released in 1970 and its B-side " Have You Seen the Saucers?

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.

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.

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.

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

* Michael H. Gorn, " Hugh L. Dryden's Career in Aviation and Space ", 1996, Washington, D. C., Monographs in Aerospace History.

* Hugh L. Dryden's Career in Aviation and Space, by Michael H. Gorn

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.