* 1631 – John Dryden, English poet and playwright ( d. 1700 )

John Dryden, however, objected to it ( without explanation ), leading other English speakers to avoid the construction and discourage its use.

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

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

* 1700 – John Dryden, English writer ( b. 1631 )

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.

* August 19 – John Dryden, English writer ( d. 1700 )

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

* May 12 – John Dryden, English poet and dramatist who was poet laureate ( 1670 – 1688 ).

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.

In 1922 he published English Metres, a study of poetic metrical form, and he compiled critical editions of Cynewulf's Juliana, several works of Dryden, James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans, and several Shakespearean plays.

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.

* John Dryden, English poet ( 1631 – 1700 )

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.

A translation of Ovid's Myrrha, done by English poet John Dryden in 1700, has been interpreted as a critique of the society of that day linking Myrrha to Mary II and Cinyras to James II.

The English poet John Dryden translated the myth of Myrrha for political purposes.

In 1700 English poet John Dryden published his translations of myths by Ovid, Homer, and Boccaccio in the volume Fables, Ancient and Modern.

First granted in 1762 by New Hampshire's Colonial Governor, Benning Wentworth, the territory was named Dryden, after English poet and playwright, John Dryden.

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.

In 1693, he addressed a poem to John Dryden, and his first major work, a book of the lives of English poets, was published in 1694.

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.

His career as a critic was always more illustrious, and he published editions of classical poets such as Virgil as well as English poets including John Dryden.

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

The Vandals may not have been any more destructive than other invaders of ancient times, but they did inspire British poet John Dryden to write, Till Goths, and Vandals, a rude Northern race, Did all the matchless Monuments deface ( 1694 ).

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.

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.

All the major poets of the period, Samuel Butler, John Dryden, Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson, and the Irish poet Jonathan Swift, wrote satirical verse.

* August 9-John Dryden, poet and dramatist ( died 1700 )

The name was assigned by a clerk interested in the classics to honor John Dryden, poet and playwright.

Dryden himself imitated the Aeneid in " MacFlecknoe " to describe the apotheosis of a dull poet, but the imitation made fun of the poet, and not of Virgil.

At the Whig triumph in 1688, he superseded John Dryden as poet laureate and historiographer royal.

In 1673, the poet John Dryden produced his tragedy Amboyna ; or the Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants.

Indeed, seldom has a poet been as publicly acknowledged as a leader for as long as was Pope, and, unlike the case with figures such as John Dryden or William Wordsworth, a second generation did not emerge to eclipse his position.

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.

In the 17th century the iambic hexameter, also called alexandrine, was used as a substitution in the heroic couplet, and as one of the types of permissible lines in lyrical stanzas and the Pindaric odes of Cowley and Dryden.

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

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.

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

This landfill is one of several landfills used by Dryden, Ontario.

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.

Dryden used that year to fulfill the requirements for his law degree at McGill and article for a law firm.

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 ).

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.

John Dryden used the phrase in his Essay of Dramatick Poesie, published in 1668.

When he turned to the ode form, he found that the standard Pindaric form used by poets such as John Dryden was inadequate to properly discuss philosophy.

The XLR11-RM-13 was also used in the Dryden lifting bodies, and as a booster engine in the Republic XF-91 Thunderceptor turbojet.

In 1962, Dryden Chemical Company began operating a chloralkali process plant in Dryden that produced chlorine and sodium hydroxide which were used at the nearby Dryden Pulp and Paper Company for bleaching pulp.

Rather than write in the heroic couplets found in his earlier works, Dryden used the decasyllabic quatrain exemplified in Sir John Davies ' poem Nosce Teipsum in 1599.

The first dictionary definition of " didder ," from Thomas Blount ( lexicographer ) | Thomas Blount, Glossographia Anglicana Nova: Or, A Dictionary, Interpreting Such Hard Words of whatever Language, as are at present used in the English Tongue, with their Etymologies, Definitions, & c. Also, The Terms of Divinity, Law, Physick, Mathematics, History, Agriculture, Logick, Metaphysicks, Grammar, Poetry, Musick, Heraldry, Architecture, Painting, War, and all other Arts and Sciences are herein explain'd, from the best Modern Authors, as, Sir Isaac Newton, Dr. Harris, Dr. Gregory, Mr. Lock, Mr. Evelyn, Mr. Dryden, Mr. Blunt, & c., London, 1707.

However, it also used the ballad form, and other poets, as well as critics, were very quick to condemn this rhyme scheme as unflattering and unheroic ( Dryden Epic ).

Dryden also used material he found in epic poetry: the idea of the " enchanted wood " is taken from Canto XVII of Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata ; and Andrew Pinnock suggests the rivalry between Arthur and Oswald is like the conflict between Gondibert and Oswald in Sir William Davenant's unfinished poem Gondibert ( 1650 ).