Word: dryden
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...sharp you will see a small book of Ben Johnson's with this characteristic phrase: Sum Ben Jonsonii. It would take too much space to give even an incomplete list of autographs; here are a few: John Locke, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, William Wordsworth, Robt. Burns, Emanuel Kant, John Dryden, Walter Scott, Edmund Burke. The manuscripts are of still greater interest. A Latin poem by John Milton; a musical composition of Haydn's; a letter from George Washington to Gen. Schuyler; an official document of the Confederate States signed by Jeff. Davis and Alex. H. Stevens; an invitation to Charles...
Prof. Longfellow's bust has been placed in Westminster Abby between those of Chaucer and Dryden. The inscription was prepared by Dean Stanley before his death...
...rarely that a word or a phrase can be set down as an Americanism except upon probability and opinion; whereas the contrary is shown, if shown at all, upon fact-proof that cannot be gainsaid. The citation of a word from English literature at or before the time of Dryden shows that it cannot possibly be "American" in origin; evidence of its continued use by British writers during the last century and the present proves the impossibility of its being an Americanism in any sense of that term. Indeed, evidence and proof should hardly be mentioned in relation to this...
...library was interesting, but tantalizing. We should so much like to explore the contents of those many, many shelves, and our time was so short ! The ancient things collected in the topmost story interested us very much. One thing we noticed was a Greek text-book used by John Dryden, when a school-boy. He had scribbled his name many times over the pages, school-boy fashion, and interspersed Latin hotes in the Greek, to assist his memory. Then there was a copy of Pindar, which had belonged to Milton, and had his notes on the margin written in Greek...
Although Cambridge University is generally regarded as second to Oxford in the classical curriculum, she has educated the principal English poets. Chaucer is generally believed to have been a Cambridge man, Milton was a Master of Arts at Christ's College, and Dryden went from Westmnster to Trinity College, Cambridge. Of the poets of this century, Wordsworth was a Johnian and Coleridge an under graduate of Jesus, Cambridge. Lord Byron is one of the glories of Trinity, and Alfred Tennyson was of the same college...