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

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.

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.

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.

It was often attributed at the time to Dryden, who accordingly suffered a thrashing at the hands of Rochester's bravoes for the reflections it contained upon the earl.

Dryden, whose views often clashed with those of other party members, was highly charismatic, and gained a substantial following within the party — in May 1984, he left the party after a major disagreement with Bob Jones.

In the 1670s, only John Dryden had plays staged more often than Behn.

It has often been praised as Dryden ’ s best comedic endeavour, and Sutherland accounts for this by observing that " the comic scenes are beautifully written, and Dryden has taken care to connect them with the serious plot by a number of effective links.

Dryden, for example, argued in his influential Essay of Dramatick Poesie ( 1668 ) — the same essay in which he noted that Shakespeare's plays were performed only half as often as those of Beaumont and Fletcher — for Shakespeare's artistic superiority.

Dryden was prolific ; and he was often accused of plagiarism.

* NASA Dryden YF-23 Photo Collection with background information

Here translated by the English poet John Dryden, Solon's words define a ' moral high ground ' where differences between rich and poor can be reconciled or maybe just ignored.

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

Whatever the justice of these, it should be borne in mind that Dryden had himself translated the work of Virgil, as Pope had of Homer, so it was in their interest to encourage a preference for their own products.

The few comedies produced also tended to be political in focus, the whig dramatist Thomas Shadwell sparring with the tories John Dryden and Aphra Behn.

Whereas Greg had limited his illustrative examples to English Renaissance drama, where his expertise lay, Bowers argued that the rationale was " the most workable editorial principle yet contrived to produce a critical text that is authoritative in the maximum of its details whether the author be Shakespeare, Dryden, Fielding, Nathaniel Hawthorne, or Stephen Crane.

He had returned to England sometime before the initial production of his adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest, written with John Dryden, who would be named the next Laureate in 1670.

This does not necessarily imply that he intended metaphysical to be used in its true sense, in that he was probably referring to a witticism of John Dryden, who said of John Donne: " He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign ; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love.

On April 28, 2006, Dryden confirmed rumours that he would run for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada, which would be choosing a successor to Paul Martin at a convention in Montreal on December 2, 2006.

In an interview with the Toronto Star on November 13, 2006, Dryden expressed concern that United States Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean should not be speaking at the Liberal Party of Canada's national convention in Montreal on November 29 out of fear that a foreigner would put the party out of touch with most Canadians.

The long cadences of the Alexandrines with which most of the strophes close, continued to echo in English poetry from Dryden down to Gray, but the Odes themselves, which were found to be obscure by the poet's contemporaries, immediately fell into disesteem.

It took until 1857 for the council to realize that the system needed to be updated, which led them to grant William G. Dryden franchise rights to provide homes with water through a system of underground water mains.

On May 13, 2004, Eggleton announced he would not be a candidate in the 2004 federal election, making way for the nomination of Ken Dryden as the Liberal candidate in York Centre.

In fact, the year was beset by great calamity for England ( including the Great Fire of London ), but Dryden chose to interpret the absence of greater disaster as miraculous intervention by God, as " 666 " is the Number of the Beast and the year 1666 was expected by some to be particularly disastrous.

In September 1954 Crossfield was forced to make a dead stick landing in the North American F-100 Super Sabre he was evaluating at Dryden, a feat which North American's own test pilots doubted could be done, as the F-100 had a high landing speed.

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.

Tonson would pay nothing for notes ; Dryden retorted, " The notes and prefaces shall be short, because you shall get the more by saving paper.

The accident happened because the APU-engine did not work, and the airline decided that one of the main engines could be on at Dryden.

According to Dryden (" Preface to The Conquest of Grenada "), the rhyming couplet in iambic pentameter has the right restraint and dignity for a lofty subject, and its rhyme allowed for a complete, coherent statement to be made.

The excessive eulogy accorded both by Dryden and Pope to Walsh must be accounted for partly on the ground of personal friendship.

Pointing out that the persons were supernatural or heroic, Dryden linked his work with the genre we would call Romance: " The subject, therefore, being extended beyond the limits of human nature, admits of that sort of marvelous and surprising conduct, which is rejected in other plays ... it would follow of necessity, that the expressions should be lofty, figurative, and majestical.

The State of Innocence was intended to be performed as an opera, with the libretto written in 1674, ( first published in 1677 ) by John Dryden.

" Milton actually gave permission for Paradise Lost to be transformed by Dryden, saying " Ay, you may tag my verses if you will.

In his preface to the printed edition, Dryden explained he had had to adapt the libretto to the changed political circumstances of 1691: " But not to offend the present Times, nor a Government which has hitherto protected me, I have been oblig'd so much to alter the first Design, and take away so many Beauties from the Writing, that it is now no more what it was formerly ..." He also made alterations to suit Purcell's musical needs: " the Numbers of Poetry and Vocal Musick, are sometimes so contrary, that in many places I have been oblig'd to cramp my Verses, and make them rugged to the Reader, that they may be harmonious to the Hearer: Of which I have no Reason to repent me, because these sorts of Entertainments are principally design'd for the Ear and the Eye ; and therefore in Reason my Art on this occasion, ought to be subservient to his.

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 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.

John Dryden ( a Tory ), the first Poet Laureate, produced in 1682 Mac Flecknoe, subtitled " A Satire on the True Blue Protestant Poet, T. S.

* John Dryden, Aureng-zebe ( 1675 ), a heroic drama in theory based on the life of the reigning Mughal Emperor, Aurangzeb

* Mr Dryden – The cynical Arab Bureau official was based loosely on numerous figures, including Sir Ronald Storrs, who was head of the Arab Bureau and later the governor of Palestine.

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.

" After their debut LP was completed in March 1966, Skip Spence quit the band and he was eventually replaced by Spencer Dryden, who played his first show with the Airplane at the Berkeley Folk Festival on July 4, 1966.

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:

The most pictographs are on cliff walls above Myers Spring near Dryden, overpainting giving to the theory that several Indian cultures were involved.

* Thornville is an unincorporated community at on the boundary between Metamora Township on the west and Dryden Township on the east.

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

In the years that followed, Ogilby's reputation as a translator was to suffer from the attacks made on him by John Dryden in his satirical MacFlecknoe, and by Alexander Pope in The Dunciad.

The alleyway beside the pub was the scene of an attack on John Dryden in 1679 by thugs hired by John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, with whom he had a long-standing conflict.

On English literature the maxims of Boileau, through the translation revised by Dryden, and through the magnificent imitation of them in Pope's Essay on Criticism, have exercised no slight influence.

Will Godwin & Leo Dryden )-Leo Dryden on Berliner Gramophone

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

On 21 November 1957, Hugh Dryden, NACA ’ s director, established the Special Committee on Space Technology.

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 ):

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.

A satire in the manner of Dryden on the latitudinarianism of the authors of Foundations ( including William Temple, later Archbishop of Canterbury ).