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23 Aug 2022, 6:03 am by Tom Lynch
 All for Love, prologue (1678), by John Dryden (19 August 1631 – 12 May 1700) Dryden could have been advising modern day humanity, especially the American variety. [read post]
12 Feb 2022, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
President John Quincy Adams Although she and JQA remained married over fifty years, their marriage was certainly not of the quality that John and Abigail Adams had. [read post]
18 May 2020, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
Beckwith, Now, I'm Liberal, But To a Degree: An Essay on Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination by John Corvino, Ryan T. [read post]
28 Mar 2020, 8:21 am
" That's how John Dryden wrote it in 1668.But the French form — "à propos" — also appears in many English works. [read post]
15 Sep 2018, 2:00 pm by Legal Skills Prof
Yes, according to Geoffrey Pullum and other scholars, the 17 century poet is responsible for making us and our students crazy with silly rules: Dryden famously invented the myth that sentence-ending prepositions are an error. [read post]
24 Nov 2017, 7:33 pm by heidi8
  Guys like Pope and Dryden took old narratives and rewrote them to make fun of people they didn’t like, because the eighteenth century was basically high school. [read post]
3 May 2017, 8:45 am by JD Hull
--Samuel Johnson, commenting on the life work of John Dryden (1631-1700), English poet, critic and playwright. [read post]
5 Mar 2017, 8:51 pm by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk)
-John Dryden The Judgment of Paris, Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) [read post]
10 Oct 2016, 8:37 am by JD Hull
--John Dryden The Judgment of Paris, Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) [read post]
21 Mar 2016, 5:52 pm by INFORRM
Street notes that as far back as the 17th century non-political public figures (such as the poets John Dryden, John Milton and Andrew Marvell) were voicing their opinions on the English civil war. [read post]
10 Jun 2015, 3:41 pm by Steve Lubet
Charlie,” and, as an encore, a spritely “Uncle John’s Band. [read post]
30 Jun 2014, 8:01 am by Patricia Salkin
The Court of Appeals in Dryden and Middlefield rested its decision on both the Municipal Home Rule Law (MHRL) and the Town Law. [read post]
2 May 2014, 9:59 pm by JD Hull
--John Dryden The Judgment of Paris, Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) [read post]
20 Mar 2014, 9:59 pm by JD Hull
--Samuel Johnson, commenting on the life work of John Dryden (1631-1700), English poet, critic and playwright. [read post]
2 Dec 2013, 8:59 pm by JD Hull
--Samuel Johnson, commenting on the life work of John Dryden (1631-1700), English poet, critic and playwright. [read post]
10 Aug 2013, 10:55 am by JD Hull
Commenting on the body of work left by John Dryden (1631-1700), the English poet, critic and playwright, Samuel Johnson, who was born a few years after Dryden's death, called Dryden's compositions "the effects of a vigorous genius working upon large materials". [read post]
20 Jun 2013, 10:59 pm by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk)
--John Dryden The Judgment of Paris, Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) [read post]