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

* Absalom and Achitophel ( 1681 ) is a landmark poetic political satire by John Dryden.

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

:— John Dryden

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.

Major poems in the closed couplet, apart from the works of Dryden and Pope, are Samuel Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes, Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village, and John Keats's Lamia.

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.

During this period he discussed matters with such figures as John Dryden and Isaac Newton.

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

The witty sally of a Baroque writer, John Dryden, against the verse of Donne in the previous generation, affords a concise contrast between Baroque and Mannerist aims in the arts:

* 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.

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.

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

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

Among the committee's members were John Evelyn ( 1620 – 1706 ), Thomas Sprat ( 1635 – 1713 ), and John Dryden ( 1631 – 1700 ).

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.

Thus, John Dryden, among many others, compares the " irregular " Shakespeare with the " regular " Ben Jonson in his Essay of Dramatick Poesie ( 1668 ), and makes use of the unity of time in this passage criticizing Shakespeare's history plays:

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 ).

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

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

John Adams fashioned much of pre-Revolutionary radical ideology, wrote the constitution of his home state of Massachusetts, negotiated, with Franklin and Jay, the peace with Britain and served as our first Vice President and our second President.

It has been said of John Stuart Mill that he wrote so clearly that he could be found out.

Concerning the sentence, Foss wrote, `` If it be possible that mercy shall override vengeance and that John Brown's sentence shall be commuted to imprisonment, it would be well -- well for the country and for Virginia ''.

Upon arriving at Baltimore, Selkirk on December 22 wrote to John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State at Washington, inquiring about laws covering trade with `` Missouri and Illinois Territories ''.

Jefferson wrote in 1785 in a letter to John Jay that

Given that John of Worcester wrote his chronicle after the eruption of the Canterbury – York supremacy struggle, the story of Ealdred renouncing any claims to Worcester needs to be considered suspect.

This became the dominant form in the Restoration, when composers such as Henry Purcell ( 1659 – 1695 ) and John Blow ( 1649 – 1708 ) wrote elaborate examples for the Chapel Royal with orchestral accompaniment.

* John Hull, a university lecturer, wrote about going blind in Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness.

“ A visit to the ground has only confirmed me ,” Lucas wrote in 1921 ; “ and it was interesting to find that Mr. Apostolides, son of the large local landowner, the hospitality of whose farm at Tekés I enjoyed, was convinced too that the site was by Driskole Krini, for the very sound reason that neither the hills nor the river further east suit Caesar ’ s description .” John D. Morgan in his definitive “ Palae-pharsalus – the Battle and the Town ”, arguing for a site closer still to Krini, where he places Palaepharsalos, writes: “ My reconstruction is similar to Lucas ’ s, and in fact I borrow one of his alternatives for the line of the Pompeian retreat.

John Napier wrote, " I do not feel impressed with Mr. Wallace's story " regarding having over of film showing Bigfoot.

Citing research by John Green, who found that several contemporary British Columbia newspapers regarded the alleged capture as very dubious, Clark notes that the Mainland Guardian of New Westminster, British Columbia, wrote, " Absurdity is written on the face of it.

" Our dragoons ," wrote John Deane, " pushing into the village … made terrible slaughter of the enemy.

The traditional theory holds that John the Apostle — considered to have written the Gospel and the epistles of John — was exiled on Patmos in the Aegean archipelago during the reign of Domitian, and there wrote Revelation.

Charles Erdman ( 1866 – 1960 ) advocated apostolic authorship and wrote that only the Apostle John fits the image of the author derived from the text.

Those who favour the later date appeal to the earliest external testimony, that of the Christian father Irenaeus ( c. 150-202 ), who wrote that he received his information from people who knew John personally.

In 1981, nominee John Banville wrote a letter to The Guardian requesting that the prize be given to him so that he could use the money to buy every copy of the longlisted books in Ireland and donate them to libraries, " thus ensuring that the books not only are bought but also read — surely a unique occurrence.

John W. Haley, his eldest son, wrote Sound and Glory, a biography of Haley, while his youngest daughter, Gina Haley, is a professional musician based in Texas.

* In 1982, John Swenson wrote Bill Haley: The Daddy of Rock and Roll ( published in the UK under the title, Bill Haley ).

* In 1990, Haley's eldest son, John W. Haley, along with John von Hoëlle wrote Sound and Glory, a biography focusing mostly on Haley's early life and peak career years.

In 1944, Jones wrote to John Walvoord of Dallas Theological Seminary that while the university had " no objection to educational work highly standardized …. We, however, cannot conscientiously let some group of educational experts or some committee of experts who may have a behavioristic or atheistic slant on education control or even influence the administrative policies of our college.

John and Roy Boulting also wrote and directed a series of successful satires, including Private's Progress ( 1956 ) and I'm All Right, Jack ( 1959 ).

John Shirley wrote articles on Sterling and Rucker's significance.

That the assessment of the contemporary situation advanced by John Paul II is not binding on the faithful was confirmed by Cardinal Ratzinger when he wrote in 2004 that,