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Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… Exemplar." T. M. was soon worthily followed by Waller, Dryden, Spratt, and others, in the style of adulation which …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… tongues. Those accommodating bards, especially Waller and Dryden, were quickly prepared to hail the glories of the …
Old and New London
… Coventry is mentioned by Sir Walter Scott, in his "Life of Dryden," as a parallel to the assault on that poet by hired …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… Roads in Brit. i. 187-9. Memorials of Old Leics. ed. Alice Dryden, 36. O. S. Anderson, The Eng. Hundred-Names, 45-46; H. …
Old and New London
… to whom it may be news:"It was Charles II. who gave to Dryden the hint for writing his poem called 'The Medal.' One … day, as the king was walking in the Mall and talking with Dryden, he said, 'If I were a poet I would write a poem on … the following manner, and then gave him the plan for it. Dryden took the hint, carried the poem as soon as it was …
Old and New London
… in his "Session of the Poets," and whose nature and pathos Dryden praised, though somewhat reluctantlydied, as it is …
Old and New London
… speaks in the Guardian (No. 102) of his "Doily suit," and Dryden in one place mentions "Doyly petticoats;" but if we …
Old and New London
… in partnership. He published extensively for Addison, Dryden, and Pope; and his edition of Clarke's "Csar," which …
Old and New London
… where I have heretofore heard Common Prayer read." Dryden, too, in his "Wild Gallant," speaks with evident …