Word: royaliste
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Dates: during 1893-1893
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Dryden's lack of principle, or possibly his indolent disposition led him always to submit to the ruling powers. He was Puritan in his youth, royalist in his manhood, papist in his old age. Yet after all the man was so easily influenced that it was almost impossible for him not to follow the lead of the majority. Whatever may have been his character as a man, certainly as a poet he gave with every advancing year added proof of strength, maturity and nobility. His genius was rather receptive than creative; the seeds that were planted in his mind bore...