Summary
Poet and playwright whom Samuel knew at Cambridge University.
His works in the Encyclopedia:
- Annus Mirabilis
- The Indian Queen (with Sir Robert Howard)
- The Indian Emperour
- The Wild Gallant
John Dryden
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John Dryden Quotes.
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
John Dryden
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for thy copie of Drydens works.
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Dryden's staying power --
Dryden's 1683 translation of Plutarch's Lives, as edited by Arthur Hugh Clough in the 1860s, is still in print in a popular edition (Modern Library) 324 years later.
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A quote that still has dire meaning.
"We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure."
JOHN DRYDEN, Dedication of the Aeneis