* 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 ).

John Dryden in the 16 – 17th century and Alexander Pope in the 18th century were both well known for their writing in heroic couplets.

After the war, he earned his bachelor's degree at Purdue University and served as a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics High-Speed Flight Station, now known as the Dryden Flight Research Center, where he logged over 900 flights.

He was known for many roles in Hollywood films, among them the title role in The Invisible Man ( 1933 ), The Wolf Man ( 1941 ), a corrupt senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), Mr. Dryden in Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), and, perhaps his most notable performance, as Captain Renault in Casablanca ( 1942 ).

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 translated all the known works of Virgil, and Pope produced versions of the two Homeric epics.

The identity of the translator of the 1682 English version Critical History of the Old Testament is unclear, being often given as a Henry Dickinson who is an obscure figure, and sometimes as John Hampden ; John Dryden wrote his Religio Laici in response with a dedication to Dickinson, and Simon's work became well known.

The DRAC ( Dryden Regional Arts Council ) is an artists group that organizes yearly art tours, art shows and also operates a retail store known as Naked North Art Gallery.

The LLRVs, humorously referred to as " Flying Bedsteads ", were used by the FRC, now known as the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., to study and analyze piloting techniques needed to fly and land the Apollo Lunar Module in the moon's airless environment.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known written usage of the Latin phrase " Annus Mirabilis " is as the title of a poem composed by English poet John Dryden about the events of 1666.

Dryden made it known to the Bruins that he would elect to play at Cornell University, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree, instead of turning professional.

Tonson published editions of John Dryden and John Milton, and is best known for having obtained a copyright on the plays of William Shakespeare by buying up the rights of the heirs of the publisher of the Fourth Folio after the Statute of Anne went into effect.

Paul Dryden Warfield ( born November 28, 1942 in Warren, Ohio ) is a former professional American football wide receiver in the 1960s and 1970s known for his speed, fluid moves, grace, jumping ability and hands.

Spencer Dryden ( 7 April 1938 – 11 January 2005 ) was an American musician best known as the longest-serving drummer for Jefferson Airplane.

In 1976 she wrote and starred in a syndicated radio feature known as The Little Things in Life, again with Margaret Hamilton, and Robert Dryden as the husband.

The Chaplins became estranged in around 1891 ; a year later, Hannah gave birth to a third son — George Wheeler Dryden — fathered by music hall entertainer Leo Dryden.

The child was taken by Dryden at six months old, and did not re-enter Chaplin's life for 30 years.

English heroic couplets, especially in Dryden and his followers, are sometimes varied by the use of the occasional alexandrine, or hexameter line, and triplet.

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 >

Reynolds made extracts in his commonplace book from Theophrastus, Plutarch, Seneca, Marcus Antonius, Ovid, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Aphra Behn and passages on art theory by Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy, and André Félibien.

The expression, " the noble savage " was first used in 1672 by British poet John Dryden in his play The Conquest of Granada.

* The tales of King Midas have been told by many with some variations: by John Dryden ; by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Wife of Bath's Tale ; making Midas ' queen the betrayer of the secret ( as Midas ' wife, Aristotle names Demodike ( or Hermodike ) of Kyme ; Eudemus fr.

The principle of Cowley's Pindariques was based on a misunderstanding of Pindar's metrical practice but was widely imitated nonetheless, with notable success by John Dryden.

* Decasyllabic quatrain used by John Dryden in Annus Mirabilis, William Davenant in Gondibert, and Thomas Gray

On January 31, 1977, it was taken by road to Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, to begin operational testing.

While at NASA Dryden Enterprise was used by NASA for a variety of ground and flight tests intended to validate aspects of the shuttle program.

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.

Pope's formal education ended at this time, and from then on he mostly educated himself by reading the works of classical writers such as the satirists Horace and Juvenal, the epic poets Homer and Virgil, as well as English authors such as Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare and John Dryden.

The title of Poet Laureate, as a royal office, was first conferred by letters patent on John Dryden in 1670, two years after Davenant's death.