How To Use Dryden In A Sentence

  • We performed the new Dryden, Ladies à la Mode, this afternoon to a half-empty house. Exit the Actress
  • The term metaphysical, originating with Dryden, and used by Johnson with a slight difference, may be easily miscomprehended by any one who chooses to forget its legitimate application both etymologically and by usage to that which comes, as it were, behind or after nature. A History of Elizabethan Literature
  • ‘citess’, ‘divineress’ (both in Dryden); ‘deaness’ (Sterne); English Past and Present
  • Dryden's position was that popular belief in such beings was enough to justify their representation in poetry.
  • An editor like Emma Dryden, who has 25 years of experience editing for major NY publishing houses but has now gone freelance, is worth every penny. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Should You Hire a Professional Editor?
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  • Love is love's reward. John Dryden 
  • ‘citess’, ‘divineress’ (both in Dryden); ‘deaness’ (Sterne); English Past and Present
  • On the other hand, the convert Dryden’s personal confession of faith was, at the same time, an eirenicon to the church of England from the catholic side.
  • Scott was used to say, of "refreshing the machiner," Dryden wrote his famous ode, "Alexander's Feast," for a meeting of the Musical Society on The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes
  • While her ladyship declaimed, the clergyman's wandering eye confessed his absent mind; his thoughts travelling, perhaps, to accomplish a truce betwixt Saladin and Conrade of Mountserrat, unless they chanced to be occupied with some occurrences of that very day, so that the lady was obliged to recall her indocile auditor with the leading question, "You are well acquainted with Dryden, of course, Mr. Cargill? St. Ronan's Well
  • Secret guilt is by silence revealed. John Dryden 
  • It was the family home of the Dryden family and was visited by the poet John Dryden.
  • The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one. John Dryden 
  • ATTRIBUTION: JOHN DRYDEN, “Horace, the Twenty-Ninth Ode of the Third Book, ” stanza 9, The Poetical Works of Dryden, new ed.rev. and enl., ed. George R. Noyes, p. 200 (1950). John Dryden (1631-1700)
  • The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one. John Dryden 
  • Genius must be born, and never can be taught. John Dryden 
  • The great age of English satire began with Dryden, who perfected the epigrammatic and antithetical use of the heroic couplet for this purpose.
  • Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul. John Dryden 
  • The coincidences of prophecy are not more remarkable than those of star-telling; and Dryden and the author I have referred to were probably both captivated into belief by some fatuitous realization of their horoscopic predictions. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1
  • DRYDEN'S translation of Virgil being commended by a right reverend bishop, Lord Chesterfield said, "The original is indeed excellent; but everything suffers by a _translation_, -- except a _bishop_! The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings
  • In our times a politician who holds the office of supervisor of his town for a few years subjects himself to sufficient criticism and envy to blast his future political ambition, if he has any; but it was not so with Judge Ellis, whose record as an office-holder of the town of Dryden will doubtless always remain unequalled. Living in Dryden: The Ellis family
  • The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one. John Dryden 
  • She quotes a “wonderfully just” passage from Milton, calls a licentious speech from Dryden's “State of Innocence” an “odious thing,” and says The Life and Romances of Mrs Eliza Haywood
  • John Dryden prescribed paraphrase, but later advocated a point between paraphrase and metaphrase.
  • The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one. John Dryden 
  • The wings of birds were clogged with ice and snow - Dryden.
  • Dryden had within him a principle of continuity which was not satisfied without lingering upon his own thoughts, brooding over them, and oftentimes pursuing them through their unlinkings with the _sequaciousness_ (pardon Famous Reviews
  • In the same prolusion, Strada quotes the "blustering" line, afterwards censured by Dryden; but erroneously reads, The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06
  • Dryden is also one of the first writers of English literary criticism.
  • The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one. John Dryden 
  • He was a friend of Dryden, for several of whose plays he wrote prologues and epilogues.
  • Once a term naturalized in English, alamort is now considered French and is rarely, if ever, used in Dryden's sense of ` melancholy. ' VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1
  • To give an idea of the feeling which has always been common in Rome against the Jesuits, it is enough to quote the often told popular legend about the windy Piazza del Gesù, where their principal church stands, adjoining what was once their convent, or monastery, as people say nowadays, though Doctor Johnson admits no distinction between the words, and Dryden called a nunnery by the latter name. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
  • Dryden, in his fine rifacimento of one of the finest passages in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, represents the Good Parson as choosing to resign his benefice rather than acknowledge the Duke of Lancaster to be King of England. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3
  • For political as well as for moral reasons Dryden's lines in Absalom and Achitophel, a parody of English radical Protestants under the Glorious Revolution, became more and more apt: The Deadlocked City
  • Dryden had in truth done little but translate the play from the French, and the language felt patchy at best his new post of Poet Laureate—he took over when Will Davenant died—has made him neglectful of his playhouse duties. Exit the Actress
  • As noted here previously, the Town of Dryden will be having a public hearing on the removal of phosphorous from the City of Ithaca's sewage treatment plant, which serves the Varna and Route 13 area sewer districts. Living in Dryden: More on phosphorous, planning
  • I then decided to translate the whole of Gambara's poem, from hendecasyllabic line to line as closely as clear English allows - that is I began with Dryden's method of metaphrase.
  • Dryden added that the same testosterone-to-estrogen process, called aromatization, also occurs in older males.
  • The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one. John Dryden 
  • Other interpretations may be given: thus, Milton, Dryden, and others, speak of the "horned flood," i.e., a body of water which, when it meets with any obstruction, divides itself and becomes _horned_, as it were. Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850
  • It is more than probable, though only a conjecture, that Dryden might be made the subject of those private exhortations, which in that reign were called closeting; and, predisposed as he was, he could hardly be supposed capable of resisting the royal eloquence. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden
  • The English poet John Dryden, who died in 1700, complained that the language was becoming unruly and disordered - ‘how barbarously we yet write and speak’, he said.
  • Dancing is the poetry of the foot. John Dryden 
  • drony;" but among his Illustrations attached to the verb "to drone," there are two from Dryden, each, it may be seen, using the word Notes and Queries, Number 49, October 5, 1850
  • During this most recent test, the velocimeter was carried aloft at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center via helicopter which flew a total of six flights at various altitudes between targeted reference points. SpaceRef Top Stories
  • Achitophel, the Hind and Panther of Dryden, the philosophic strain of Early Reviews of English Poets
  • “Though heaven should speak with all _his_ wrath at once”, and proceeds, “_heaven_ is ill syntax with _his_”; while in fact up to within forty or fifty years of the time when Dryden began to write, no other syntax was known; and to a much later date was exceedingly rare. English Past and Present
  • Considered a leading expert on flea control, Dryden says natural flea preventives, such as adding garlic to the pet's food or using the aromatic oils of cedar, lavender, mint and rosemary, are ineffective.
  • The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one. John Dryden 
  • Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. John Dryden 
  • The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one. John Dryden 
  • The print edition includes some additional statistics on educational attainment in Groton and Dryden, as well as a community calendar. Living in Dryden: March 2004 Archives
  • Secret guilt is by silence revealed. John Dryden 
  • The process of developing it into the representative pseudo-classical measure of Dryden and Pope consisted in making the lines, or at least the couplets, generally end-stopt, and in securing a general regular movement, mainly by eliminating pronounced pauses within the line, except for the frequent organic cesura in the middle. A History of English Literature
  • Once a term naturalized in English, alamort is now considered French and is rarely, if ever, used in Dryden's sense of ` melancholy. ' VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1
  • ATTRIBUTION: JOHN DRYDEN, Absalom and Achitophel, part 2, lines 268–69, p. 9 (1682, reprinted 1970). John Dryden (1631-1700)
  • The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one. John Dryden 
  • It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time. John Dryden 
  • Independent councillor Derek McVickers sparked controversy when he said he understood Albert Dryden's frustration at planning decisions.
  • Vigorous, amusing, and obscene, it burlesques a current production of Thomas Shadwell's operatic version of the Dryden - Davenant adaptation.
  • Those two extremities of stile Mr Dryden illustrates by the familiar image of two inns, which I shall term the aerial and the subterrestrial. The Works of Henry Fielding Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes $p Volume 12
  • Like all lumbering communities Dryden did not present a very advanced or refined state of development in that period, and John Southworth, who was a keen and careful observer of men and things in those times in which he participated, used to say in after years that the Dryden farmer, who occasionally took out of his clearing in those days to the county seat of this or an adjoining county with his ox team a load of lumber, or perhaps a cargo of charcoal, or sometimes a few barrels of potash salts leached from the ashes gathered after the burning of his fallow, when he was interrogated by the tradesmen to who he sold his products as to where his home was, would admit with no little hesitation and embarrassment, that he lived "just in the edge of Dryden. Living in Dryden: Developing Dryden, circa 1825
  • The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one. John Dryden 
  • Dryden has himself assigned the following reasons: ” “The plot, the characters, the wit, the passions, the descriptions, are all exalted above the level of common converse, as high as the imagination of the poet can carry them, with proportion to verisimility. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden
  • ‘So easy still it proves in factious times, with public zeal to cancel private crimes’, wrote John Dryden.
  • Dryden; but the fact is, _I did not know that Dryden's version existed_; for having undertaken to complete those of the Canterbury Tales which were wanting in Ogle's collection, and the tale in question _not being in that collection_, I proceeded to supply it, having never till very lately, strange as it may seem, _seen the volume of Dryden's Fables in which it may be found_!! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
  • In the opinion section, Lisa Cochran of Freeville writes to say that "A child can learn respect, compassion, responsibility, and how to love unconditionally from a home in which the parents -- either same-sex or not -- are in a stable and loving relationship," in response to a July 19th letter from Gabriel and Penelope Carpenter of Dryden. Living in Dryden: August 2004 Archives
  • Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. John Dryden 
  • The Dryden translation is a little harder to get into with its deliberate archaisms and anastrophes, but once you do it's very rhythmic and compelling.
  • Dryden's position was that popular belief in such beings was enough to justify their representation in poetry.
  • Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. John Dryden 
  • Some time about the year 1827, two sturdy lads, tall and well proportioned but clad in homespun and barefooted, came to "Dryden Corners" from the South Hill neighborhood, driving an ox team and bringing to market a wagon load of pine shingles which they had shaved by hand. Living in Dryden: June 2004 Archives
  • Dryden makes him sound a monument of dullness; in reality he is brisk, lively and journalistic.
  • Dryden Flight Research Center NASA's high-risk, high-payoff Hyper-X Program is ready to attempt its greatest challenge yet - flying a "scramjet" - powered X-43A research vehicle at nearly 10 times the speed of sound. WN.com - Business News
  • The Augustan age of English literature includes the writers Dryden, Swift and Pope.
  • Dryden has himself assigned the following reasons: -- "The plot, the characters, the wit, the passions, the descriptions, are all exalted above the level of common converse, as high as the imagination of the poet can carry them, with proportion to verisimility. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author
  • Ben Jonson, whose translation of Horace's _Art of Poetry_ is cited by Dryden as an example of "metaphrase, or turning an author word by word and line by line from one language to another," [395] is perhaps largely responsible for the mistaken impression regarding the earlier translators. Early Theories of Translation
  • It must be allowed that Dryden would have been hard-pressed to find another episode from ancient epic which so peculiarly recalled recent history.
  • WHEREAS, upon such dissolution, title to the property revested in the Town of Dryden Living in Dryden: West Dryden Road Church
  • In July, 1858, it was revived under the name of "The Dryden Weekly News," by Asahel Clapp, who continued its publication successfully until 1871, when he removed it to Ithaca where it is still published by his son as The Weekly Ithacan. Living in Dryden: The Village of Dryden around the Civil War
  • Dryden accidentally clipped the notorious bruiser across the nose with his stick.
  • “It really is smashing, Dryden,” said Teddy, bandying about his new mot du jour. Exit the Actress
  • Thus, even Dryden's repeated disclamation of puns, points, and quibbles, and all the repentance of his more sober hours, was unable, so soon as he began to translate Ovid, to prevent his sliding back into the practice of that false wit with which his earlier productions are imbued. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden
  • Yet that is what has happened, and it is not a cynical by-blow on the part of Dryden; the last line is entirely rousing and single-hearted. "Courage is not solely for men, but it is mainly for men."
  • It's still stranger to imagine legions of English noctambulists marching into moonlit fields to chant Dryden and Pope; but the implication of Wordsworth's scenario is that anyone undertaking the experiment would soon see the superiority of the night sky to the painted firmament of Augustan poetry.
  • Or Eliot, who wrote on the Metaphysicals, Marvell, Dryden, Blake, Wordsworth, Baudelaire and, of course, Dante, as well as many other writers.
  • Dancing is the poetry of the foot. John Dryden 
  • The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one. John Dryden 
  • During his earlier sojourns in West Kochi, Mr. Dryden met hundreds of people, interviewing them for a set of books commissioned by the Geographical Association in the U.K.
  • Dryden's position was that popular belief in such beings was enough to justify their representation in poetry.
  • Secret guilt is by silence revealed. John Dryden 
  • English sixteenth centuries, and the alembicated exquisiteness of Catullus and Carew; he does not dislike Webster because he is not Dryden, or Young because he is not Spenser; he does not quarrel with Sophocles because he is not Æschylus, or with Hugo because he is not Heine. A History of Elizabethan Literature
  • Translation, therefore," says Dryden, "is not so loose as paraphrase, nor so close as metaphrase. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
  • ACHIT'OPHEL, "Him who drew Achitophel," Dryden, author of the famous political satire of _Absalom and Achitophel_. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
  • In such an assault, no weapon would remain unhandled, no charge, true or false, unurged; and what qualities we do not there find excepted against, must surely be admitted to pass to the credit of Dryden. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden
  • However, in the End, it serv'd in some sort to mend our People's Opinion of me; and whatever the Criticks might think of it, one of the Patentees 196.1 (who, it is true, knew no Difference between Dryden and D'urfey) said, upon the Success of it, that insooth! An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I
  • Love is not in our choice but in our fate. John Dryden 

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