Dryden, the English poet, used the word " clip " to describe the swift flight of a falcon in the 17th century when he said " And, with her eagerness the quarry missed, Straight flies at check, and clips it down the wind.

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.

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

* 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.

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 ).

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 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 >

* in London, the year sees one of the major theatrical flops of the Restoration era: Albion and Albanius — an allegorical drama in praise of Charles II, with text by John Dryden and music by Louis Grabu — is in rehearsals when Charles dies in February.

* John Dryden signs a contract to produce three plays a year for the King ’ s Company.

* December 1-John Dryden marries Elizabeth, sister of Sir Robert Howard ; Dryden and John Aubrey become Fellows of the Royal Society in the same year.

The following year Dryden won the Calder Trophy, 1972, as the Rookie of the year because the previous year he did not play enough regular season games to become eligible.

The Canadiens allowed 56 more goals in the 1973 – 74 season than they had the year before with Dryden.

For fourteen years from the production of his first comedy to his memorable encounter with John Dryden, Shadwell produced a play nearly every year.

Within a year of his first wife's death, Marbury married Bridget Dryden, about ten years younger than he, from a prominent Northampton family.

A year after the marriage, according to a published account of the divorce proceedings, Dryden Kuser " began to embarrass her in social activities, ... told her that he no longer loved her and that their marriage was a failure.

A year later, Creach renewed his working relationship with Covington as a member of the San Francisco All-Stars, as well as with Covington's Airplane predecessor, Spencer Dryden, as a member of The Dinosaurs.

In 1977, Fullerton was assigned to one of the two two-man flight crews which piloted the Space Shuttle prototype Enterprise during the Approach and Landing Tests Program at Dryden that same year.

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.

A second edition appeared in the following year with extra commendatory verses in Latin and English, some of which bore the names of Nahum Tate, Thomas Otway, Aphra Behn, Richard Duke, and Edmund Waller ; and when Dryden published his translations from Theocritus, Lucretius, and Horace, he made flattering comments on Creech's work in the preface.

Johnson writes that Dryden uses the term " year of miracles " for this period of time to suggest that events could have been worse.

Dryden wrote the poem while at Charlton in Wiltshire, where he went to escape one of the great events of the year: the Great Plague of London.

" Their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage ", reported fellow playwright John Dryden in 1668, " two of theirs being acted through the year for one of Shakespeare's or Jonson's ".

During the ensuing year Tonson continued to bring out pieces by Dryden, and on 6 October 1691 paid thirty guineas for all the author's rights in the printing of the tragedy of Cleomenes.

Image: S-58TC-GLOG. JPG | MNR contracts a variety of aircraft for fire fighting each year, such as this S-58T ready to deploy to a project fire, Dryden, Ontario, 1995

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

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

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.

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.

Ultimately, however, Dryden declared Shakespeare " incomparable " because of his disregard for convention:

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 ).

: See Absalom and Achitophel for the political allegory about the Duke of Monmouth by John Dryden.

The existing branch from Kenora continues east for to Dryden.

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

Dryden became a large shipping point for cattle ranchers.

Dryden Elementary for Preschool through 6th grade and Dryden Jr ./ Sr.

Grade 5 was moved to Dryden Primary and Elk Knob Elementary to make room for more teachers.

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.

Both Dryden and Pope were as indebted to him in this as Dryden was for certain lines in his own translation of the Aeneid.

Dryden, Lord Somers and Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax took an interest in Addison's work and obtained for him a pension of £ 300 to enable him travel to Europe with a view to diplomatic employment, all the time writing and studying politics.

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.

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

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.

The play was highly praised by John Dryden and John Dennis, though it was equally condemned for its obscenity by many.

* All for Love-John Dryden

* In his Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, clergyman Jeremy Collier attaks leading contemporary dramatists ( William Congreve and Sir John Vanbrugh most prominently, but also John Dryden, Thomas d ' Urfey, and William Wycherley ) for moral shortcomings in their works.