Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: John Dryden

 

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1700-1799Read some spectators in great anguish of mind. 'Im weary of my part My torch is out, and the world stands before me Li...Gertrude Savile John DrydenAll for LovePrint: Book
1700-1799"Is there yet left the least unmortgag'd hope" ('All for Love')Gertrude Savile John DrydenAll for LovePrint: Book
1700-1799Read an act of 'The Rehearsall' and one of 'All for Love'. Bed 12.Gertrude Savile John DrydenAll for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy..Print: Book
1700-1799Came up and din'd alone. Writt little. Read 'All for Love'.Gertrude Savile John DrydenAll for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy..Print: Book
1700-1799Din'd alone in own room. Read part of 'All for Love'.Gertrude Savile John DrydenAll for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy..Print: Book
1800-1849'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more...Joseph Barker John DrydenPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled ...Mary Smith John DrydenPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Walter Scott: 'I had a peep at your edition of Dryden - I had not time to read the Notes which w...William Wordsworth John DrydenunknownPrint: Book
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Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L...George Gordon Lord Byron John DrydenunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w...George Howell John DrydenPrint: Book
1700-1799'At the age of five she was caught by her father reading Dryden: 'I dropt my Book and burst into Tears'. However, inst...Laetitia Pilkington John DrydenPrint: Book
1700-1799?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ...John Marsh John DrydenVirgil's husbandry; or, An essay on the GeorgicsPrint: Book
1800-1849'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev...Lady Caroline Lamb John DrydenunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'she was reading Dryden's "Don Sebastian", which treats of incest, and happened to ask Byron a question. He said angri...Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron John DrydenDon SebastianPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Dryden's comedy of the Spanish Fryar, was not much pleased with it.'Joseph Hunter John DrydenThe Spanish FryarPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read several of Dryden's original Poems. The sudden transition from his "Funeral Lines on Oliver Cromwell", to his "...Thomas Green John DrydenWorksPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Dryden's Dedication to his "Translations of Juvenal's Satires":--a stranger, rambling composition...'Thomas Green John DrydenThe satires of Juvenalis, translated into EnglishPrint: Book
1800-1849'Began Dryden's "Prose Works"...'Thomas Green John DrydenProse Works, ed. MalonePrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Macintosh June 19 1796 'At length I set up my rest under a broad spreading cedar, beside the statue of D...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] John Dryden[Tales from Chaucer]Print: Book
1600-1699'and thence walked to Woolwich, reading "The Rivall Ladys" all the way and find it a most pleasant and fine-writ play.'Samuel Pepys John DrydenThe Rival LadiesPrint: Book
1600-1699'So home, and then down to Woolwich, reading and making an end of "The Rivall Ladys", and find it a very pretty play.'Samuel Pepys John DrydenThe Rival LadysPrint: Book
1600-1699'I am very well pleased this night with reading a poem I brought home with me last night from Westminster hall, of Dri...Samuel Pepys John DrydenAnnus Mirabilis: the year of wonders, 1666; an historical poemPrint: Unknown
1600-1699'And so to dinner alone, having since church-time heard my boy read over Dryden's reply to Sir R Howard's answer about...John DrydenA defence of an essayPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 6 August 1923: 'We went over to Charleston yesterday [...] Clive was sitting in the drawing room window reading...Clive Bell John DrydenunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'.Virginia Woolf John DrydenThe Hind and the PantherPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 31 August 1935: 'Read Hind & Panther. D.H.L. by E. (good) & slept.'Virginia Woolf John DrydenThe Hind and the PantherPrint: Book
1900-1945'.....I've been ill with heart trouble - why I can't imagine, as it has always been quite strong so Sachie lent me his...Edith Sitwell John DrydenunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryd...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John DrydenPrint: Book
1700-1799'[her mother having forbidden her to learn to read due to her weak eyes] I was at this time about five Years of Age, a...Laetitia van Lewen John DrydenAlexander's FeastPrint: Book
1900-1945'An hour won. Dryden's Epistles read for pleasure September night windy, dark, warm, and I have read the Epistles of D...Edward Morgan Forster John DrydenEpistlesPrint: Book
1900-1945Texts discussed, and quoted from at length, in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include The Conquest of Granada...Edward Morgan Forster John DrydenThe Conquest of GranadaPrint: Book
1900-1945Texts discussed, and quoted from at length, in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include The Conquest of Granada...Edward Morgan Forster John DrydenAn Essay of Heroic PlaysPrint: Book
1900-1945Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include John Dryden, Preface to The Maiden Q...Edward Morgan Forster John DrydenPreface, The Maiden QueenPrint: Book
1700-1799'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those...Samuel Johnson John DrydenAbsalom and AchitophelPrint: Book
1700-1799'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some ...Samuel Johnson John Dryden[preface to his 'Poetical Miscellanies', vol. 3]Print: Book
1700-1799'I related a dispute between Goldsmith and Mr. Robert Dodsley, one day when they and I were dining at Tom Davies's, in...Robert Dodsley John Dryden'Ode on St Cecilia's Day'Print: Book
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Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but...Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood John DrydenPrint: Book
1700-1799'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver...Hester Lynch Thrale John DrydenMiscellaniesPrint: Book
1700-1799'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping S...Samuel Johnson John DrydenPrint: Book
1700-1799'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping S...Hester Lynch Thrale John DrydenPrint: Book
'20: Jan: 1779.] My second Daughter Susanna Arabella who will not be nine Years old till next May, can at this Moment ...Susanna Arabella Thrale John DrydenSong for St. Cecilia's DayPrint: Book
1700-1799'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fres...Hester Lynch Thrale John Dryden'Preface' to Fresnoy's 'Art of Painting'Print: Book
1700-1799'David Hume and John Dryden are at present my companions'James Boswell John Dryden[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816: 'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwit...John Wilson Croker John DrydenPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 12 July 1795, 'Drydens denunciation of Time & Space is by no means so rid...Robert Southey John DrydenOf Dramatick Poesie, an Essay Print: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then...Oscar Wilde John DrydenPoemsPrint: Book
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From Anne Isabella Milbanke's reminiscences of her father: '"Of Shakespeare, Otway, Dryden, he was a devoted admire...Ralph Milbanke John DrydenPrint: Book
1800-1849'[At Halnaby, on honeymoon] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Dryden's Don Sebastian, which treats of incest, a...Anne Isabella Lady Byron John DrydenDon SebastianPrint: Book
1700-1799Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from John Dryden's The Medall. A Satyre against S...Edward Pordage John DrydenThe Medall. A Satyre Against SeditionPrint: Book
1700-1799Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from John Dryden's The Medall. A Satyre against S...Edward Pordage John DrydenEpistle to the WhigsPrint: Book
1700-1799Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from John Dryden's 'Heroique Stanza's, Consecrate...Edward Pordage John Dryden'Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of his most Serene and Renowned Highnesse Oliver Late Lord Protector of this Common-Wealth, &c. Written after the Celebration of his Funerall'Print: Book
1700-1799Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from John Dryden's The Second Part of Absalom and...Edward Pordage John DrydenThe Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel a PoemPrint: Book

 

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