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The child was taken by Dryden at six months old, and did not re-enter Chaplin's life for 30 years.
Livingstone2 was flown as an experiment onboard Earth Observing 1, and an F-18 at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.
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.
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.
Despite these hindrances, his aim ( and that of his collaborator John Dryden ) was to establish serious opera in England, but these hopes ended with Purcell's early death at the age of 36.
Liberal MP Ken Dryden summarized the view of many of these dissenters, maintaining that it was a game of semantics that cheapened issues of national identity.
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.
* May 12 – John Dryden, English poet and dramatist who was poet laureate ( 1670 – 1688 ).
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.
This view reflects the typical Age of Reason belief that men are everywhere and in all times the same as well as a Deistic conception of natural religion ( although Pope, like Dryden, was Catholic ).
* Mr DrydenThe 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.
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.
The film was directed by Chaplin ( with his half-brother Wheeler Dryden as assistant director ), and also written and produced by Chaplin.
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 ).
" 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.
Spencer Dryden was dismissed from the band in February 1970 by a unanimous vote of the other members.
In 1996, Jefferson Airplane was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with Balin, Casady, Dryden, Kantner & Kaukonen attending & performing at the ceremony.
It was adapted by John Dryden in his very successful heroic drama Oedipus, licensed in 1678.
The highest angle of attack in sustained flight so far demonstrated was 70 degrees in the X-31 at the Dryden Flight Research Center.
Mary and William were crowned king and queen of England in 1689, and because Dryden was deeply sympathetic to James he lost his public offices and fell into political disfavor under the new reign.

Dryden and unable
Just prior to their third season, the team was sold to Cougars players Ralph Backstrom and Dave Dryden, and player-coach Pat Stapleton after the original owners, Walter and Jordon Kaiser, were unable to secure funds to build a new arena.
The group was lucky to have Dryden Goodwin spend three extremely productive days with the company during The Arab and the Jew ’ s early stages, but had to leave when they were unable to pay him for an extensive period of time.

Dryden and heroic
John Dryden in the 16 – 17th century and Alexander Pope in the 18th century were both well known for their writing in heroic couplets.
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.
* John Dryden, Aureng-zebe ( 1675 ), a heroic drama in theory based on the life of the reigning Mughal Emperor, Aurangzeb
Two tragedies written in rhymed heroic couplets, in imitation of John Dryden, followed in 1676, Sophonisba, or Hannibal's Overthrow and Gloriana, or the Court of Augustus Caesar.
Keats ' generation was familiar enough with the polished literary translations of John Dryden and Alexander Pope, which gave Homer an urbane gloss similar to Virgil, but expressed in blank verse or heroic couplets.
It is notable both as a defining example of the " heroic drama " pioneered by Dryden, and as the subject of later satire.
As for subject matter, the hero of a heroic drama must demonstrate, Dryden said, the Classical virtues of strength and decisiveness.
Dryden had written other heroic drama aside from The Conquest of Granada.
There, Dryden scolds his fellow dramatists for having immoral heroes and low sentiments, and he proposes a new type of theater, the heroic drama.
If " heroic drama " is understood only as the writings of Dryden in an heroic vein, then perhaps The Rehearsal was a success.
The four speakers represented, respectively, Sir William Davenant " ingenious " collaborator on their revision of The Tempest, Sir Robert Howard and Dryden's brother-in-law, the earl of Orrery Boyle, author of the first heroic play in rhymed couplets, and Dryden himself ( neander means " new man " and implies that Dryden, as a respected member of the gentry class, is entitled to join in this dialogue on an equal footing with the three older men who are his social superiors ).
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.
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.
John Dryden, who formulated and wrote the heroic drama in the 1670s.
The term " heroic drama " was invented by Dryden for his play, The Conquest of Granada ( 1670 ).
For the Preface to the printed version of the play, Dryden argued that the drama was a species of epic poetry for the stage, that, as the epic was to other poetry, so the heroic drama was to other plays.
He ventured to decry the heroic drama, and John Dryden retaliated by satirizing his Mamamouchi, a foolish adaptation from Molière's Bourgeois Gentilhomme and Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, in the prologue to the Assignation ( Dryden, Works, ed.

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