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...Here too, or hereabout, was where the poet John Dryden was almost murdered by rogues hired by the Earl of Rochester in 1679....
...In Seventeen (Hodder & Stoughton, £14.99) John Brownlow has no such constraints....
...“It’s much like dancing on ropes with fettered legs,” wrote 17th-century poet John Dryden on translating Ovid’s Epistles....
...Almost half a century later, Sen became master of the college that gave the world Isaac Newton, Lords Byron and Tennyson, John Dryden, Bertrand Russell, Jawaharlal Nehru and Ludwig Wittgenstein....
...— Jan Dryden What have we missed? Tell us below what you’re reading in these strange times Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Cafe....
...The action in John Dryden’s accompanying play opens with a battle in which King Arthur sees off the Saxons, appropriately on St George’s Day....
...Her death at 25 prompted an elegy from the poet laureate John Dryden, lauding her “bright soul” and excellence “in the two Sister-Arts of Poesie, and Painting”....
...See John Dryden, “The Spanish Fryar or The Double Discovery”, Act IV, Scene 1 (1681) (“there is a Proverb, I confess, which says, That Dead men tell no Tales.”). I completely reject Dr....
...John Butt comes to this recording with a reputation as a keen and individual thinker in the Baroque repertoire....
...Such is the tangle of affections by this stage in John Dryden’s 1675 tragedy Aureng-zebe — retitled The Captive Queen in Barrie Rutter’s production — that her immodest declaration barely registers....
...The 17th-century author John Dryden, too, sympathised with “the wretched translator [who] must make what music he can in the expression”....
...“Dotard” is a word that has largely fallen out of regular English usage, but it will be familiar to readers of Shakespeare (“Away with the dotard . . .”) or John Dryden (“Poor, feeble dotard!”)....
...Gone is John Dryden’s original spoken drama, which, traditionally, went hand-in-hand with Purcell’s music....
...The Oedipus legend casts a long shadow over theatre and film from Dryden and Voltaire to Cocteau and Pasolini. Opera has been more reluctant to engage with it....
...In one, Nell, her sister and her dresser, help the dithering playwright John Dryden (Graham Butler) to compose a realistic woman character....
...Nor had his reputation improved by the end of the century when the poet laureate, John Dryden, wrote: “That which the World called Wit in Shakespeare’s age, is laughed at as improper for our stage.”...
...John Dryden’s poem inspired from Handel a 13-part work shared between soprano, tenor and chorale, spiced with a series of delightful instrumental obbligatos, all of which claim their place in the music of...
...But the only cameo came from retro-soul singer John Newman, who proceeded to dash through an overly frenetic version of the 2013 hit “Feel the Love”....
...The rebrand does not extend to the company logo, which will continue to be a stylised version of the Rock of Gibraltar, a symbol its founder, John Dryden, began using in the 1880s to signify strength and...
...This weekend, the second part of John Dryden’s sumptuous adaptation of Rohinton Mistry’s novel A Fine Balance (1995) airs on BBC Radio 4....
...Pirie considered the post-Shakespeare world of Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and John Dryden the richest in all literature....
...When Henry Purcell and John Dryden teamed up in 1691 to write King Arthur, they were experimenting with new media that, unbeknown to them, created a get-out-of-jail-free card for 21st-century directors....
...Ackroyd ends by quoting Dryden on William’s accession: “an old age is out/And time to begin a new”....
...John Lavery and John Singer Sargent were inspirations for “Jean Maconochie”, his lustrous depiction of his Edinburgh lover in an emerald-green hat, and its successor “The White Dress: Portrait of Jean”,...
...Popular with Puritans, it is not surprising that he was out of fashion by the Restoration; in 1676 the poet laureate John Dryden sneered at poets who “choose for thy command/ Some peaceful province in acrostic...
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