* Absalom and Achitophel ( 1681 ) is a landmark poetic political satire by John Dryden.

In the Restoration and eighteenth century, poetry written in couplets is sometimes varied by the introduction of a triplet in which the third line is an alexandrine, as in this sample from Dryden, which introduces a 6-5-6 triplet after two pentameter couplets:

This development is being spearheaded by NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.

The heroic couplet is often identified with the English Baroque works of John Dryden and Alexander Pope.

In 1691, he wrote the music for what is sometimes considered his dramatic masterpiece, King Arthur, with the libretto by Dryden and first published by the Musical Antiquarian Society in 1843.

While the work of this committee never went beyond planning, John Dryden is often credited with creating and exemplifying a new and modern English style.

*** More particularly following Lives and Comparisons ( D is Dryden translation ; G is Gutenberg ; P is Perseus Project ; L is LacusCurtius ):

In dealing with atheism Cudworth's method is to marshal the atheistic arguments elaborately, so elaborately that Dryden remarked " he has raised such objections against the being of a God and Providence that many think he has not answered them "; then in his last chapter, which by itself is as long as an ordinary treatise, he confutes them with all the reasons that his reading could supply.

The English translation by the 17th-century poet John Dryden is another important version.

Most classic translations, including both Douglas and Dryden, employed a rhyme scheme, a very non-Roman convention that is not usually followed in modern versions.

Brutus also uttered the well-known verse calling down a curse upon Antonius ( Plutarch repeats this from the memoirs of Publius Volumnius ): Forget not, Zeus, the author of these crimes ( in the Dryden translation this passage is given as Punish, great Jove, the author of these ills ).

Over the objections of General Murray ( Donald Wolfit ), he is sent by Mr. Dryden ( Claude Rains ) of the Arab Bureau to assess the prospects of Prince Faisal ( Alec Guinness ) in his revolt against the Turks.

Grace Slick's " Lather ," which opens the album, is said to be about her affair with drummer Spencer Dryden and his 30th birthday.

The episode of Iphigenia and Cymon that inspired such painters as Benjamin West ( 1773 ), John Everett Millais ( 1848 ) and Frederic Leighton ( 1884 ) is not a Greek myth, but a novella taken from Boccaccio's Decameron and developed later by the poet and dramatist John Dryden.

Reading the translation of the myth of Myrrha by Dryden as a comment on the political scene, states Lee, is partly justified by the characterization done by the historian Julian Hoppit on the events of the revolution of 1688:

Dryden, the only town besides Sanderson in the county, was also started in 1882, but is now a ghost town.

Designated as the Air Force Test Center ( AFTC ), Edwards is home to the 412th Test Wing, the United States Air Force Test Pilot School, and NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.

This aerial photo of the main base shows its runways extending out over the hard dry lakebed of Rogers Lake Edwards Main Base includes the Dryden Flight Research Center at its north end and is directly connected to the South Base.

Contained inside Edwards Air Force Base is NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center ( DFRC ) where modern aircraft research is still active ( e. g. the Boeing X-45 ).

Dryden holds the distinction of being the original home of Champion Homes ( 1953 ), whose approximately 150 employees who produced manufactured housing and recreational vehicles until relocating in the 1980s.

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

Dryden is home to a variety of arts groups.

It has been the home of the Dryden family since its construction in the 16th century.

Lynah has been home to hockey greats such as Ken Dryden, Joe Nieuwendyk and Olympic Gold Medalist Dana Antal.

The land for High Point State Park, donated by Colonel Anthony R. and Susie Dryden Kuser of Bernardsville, New Jersey, was dedicated as a park in 1923.

He attended Los Angeles County High School of the Arts, where he earned the opportunity to paint the Woody Guthrie Exhibit's main mural with Adam Dryden at the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum in 1999.

* Rev John Dryden Stalker ( Senior Assistant Master 1881-1902 ): Stalker was made Vice-Principal of the ( then ) High School under Mr RD Clark in 1881, and remained in that post until shortly after the departure of ' his beloved old chief ' in 1902.

* Dryden Elementary School, Dryden

The District No. 2 School, Caroline and Dryden and St. Thomas Episcopal Church are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

There are eight boys ' boarding houses ( Bramston, Crosby, Fisher Laxton House, Grafton, Laundimer, School, Sidney and St Anthony ), five girls ' boarding houses ( Dryden, Kirkeby, New House, Sanderson and Wyatt ) and a junior house ( The Berrystead ).

The Town of Caroline is served by 4 school districts Ithaca ( city ), New York, Dryden ( village ), New York, Newark Valley ( village ), New York and Candor ( village ), New York.

Students in the Town of Caroline are dispersed into several school districts: Dryden, Ithaca, Candor, and Newark Valley.

During the 16th century the school educated writers including Ben Jonson and Richard Hakluyt ; in the seventeenth, the poet John Dryden, philosopher John Locke, scientist Robert Hooke, composer Henry Purcell and architect Christopher Wren were pupils ; and in the 18th century, philosopher Jeremy Bentham and several Whig Prime Ministers and other statesmen ; recent Old Westminsters include prominent politicians of all parties, and many members of the arts and media.

" Probably the only writer before Dryden to speak of a certain metaphysical school or group of metaphysical poets is Drummond of Hawthornden ( 1585 – 1649 ), who in one of his letters speaks of " metaphysical Ideas and Scholastical Quiddities.

There are four elementary schools ( Auke Bay, Glacier Valley, Mendenhall River, and Riverbend ) one middle school ( Floyd Dryden ), and one high school ( Thunder Mountain ) located in the valley.

The two demonstrators remained in storage at Edwards Air Force Base until November 16, 2010, when both X-34s were moved with their vertical tails removed from Dryden to a hangar owned by the National Test Pilot school in Mojave, California.

The school houses its own radio station which broadcasts from newly converted studios in Old Dryden.

The old school houses were originally named after eight notable Britons in the 1970s ; Arnold, Livingstone, Scott, Kelvin, Shakespeare, Harvey, Dryden and Newton.

The Indian Queen followed in 1695, in which year he also wrote songs for Dryden and Davenant's version of Shakespeare's The Tempest ( recently, this has been disputed by music scholars < ref >

Ethnomusicologist Ter Ellingson believes that Dryden had picked up the expression " noble savage " from a 1609 travelogue about Canada by the French explorer Marc Lescarbot, in which there was a chapter with the ironic heading: " The Savages are Truly Noble ", meaning simply that they enjoyed the right to hunt game, a privilege in France granted only to hereditary aristocrats.

The English semi-opera which developed in the latter part of the 17th century, a form in which John Dryden and Henry Purcell collaborated, borrows some elements from the masque and further elements from the contemporary courtly French opera of Jean-Baptiste Lully.

In the Renaissance, the Silvae thanks to Poliziano helped inspire an entire genre of collections of miscellaneous, occasional poetry called Sylvae which remained popular throughout the period, inspiring works by Hugo Grotius and John Dryden, Dante mentions Statius in De vulgari eloquentia along with Ovid, Virgil and Lucan as one of the four regulati poetae ( ii, vi, 7 ).

It originates in the poetry of Dryden, which Goldsmith may have seen misquoted by Lord Chesterfield.

Scheemakers is perhaps best known for executing the William Kent-designed sculpture of William Shakespeare which was erected in Poets ' Corner in Westminster Abbey, London, in 1740, as well as that to John Dryden in the same church.

Dryden has one community newspaper, The Dryden Observer and is also serviced by the Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal, which operates a bureau in Dryden.

On January 14, 1958, Dryden published " A National Research Program for Space Technology ," which stated:

John Dryden described him under the character of Zimri in celebrated lines in the poem Absalom and Achitophel ( to which Buckingham replied in Poetical Reflections on a late Poem ... by a Person of Honour, 1682 ):

John Dryden used his name as a stalking horse from behind which to assail Thomas Shadwell in Mac Flecknoe ( 1682 ) The opening lines run:

Slick and Dryden in place on this album and its attendant singles completed the best-known line-up of the group, which would remain stable until Dryden's departure in early 1970.

Hunt's preference was decidedly for Chaucer's verse style, as adapted to modern English by John Dryden, in opposition to the epigrammatic couplet of Alexander Pope which had superseded it.

His only considerable enterprise in prose was a revision of a 17th century translation of Plutarch ( called the " Dryden Translation ," but actually the product of translators other than Dryden ) which occupied him from 1852, and was published as Plutarch's Lives ( 1859 ).

Dryden played from 1971 to 1979, except for the 1973 – 74 season, when he was unhappy about the contract that the Canadiens offered him, which he considered less than his market worth, given that he had won the Stanley Cup and Vezina Trophy.

Dryden was so tall, at 6 foot 4 inches ( 193 cm ), that he was often seen during stoppages in play in what became his trademark pose: resting with his blocker propped up by his goalie stick which was angled to its maximum possible height.