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    Annus Mirabilis is a poem written by John Dryden published in 1667. It commemorated 1665–1666, the "year of miracles" of London. Despite the poem's name...
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    1667, around the same time his dramatic career began, he published Annus Mirabilis, a lengthy historical poem which described the English defeat of the...
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    practice that was, if not acceptable, at least understandable. John Dryden, in Annus Mirabilis, suggested that the king's keeping of mistresses and production...
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    poem Annus Mirabilis, was dismissed from office in 1689 following the accession of the Protestant William III and Mary II to the throne. Dryden, a Catholic...
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  • Sinners by John Bunyan 1667 Paradise Lost by John Milton Andromaque by Jean Racine Annus Mirabilis, the Year of Wonders 1666 – John Dryden Secret Love...
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    until 1923. This is the first year to be designated as an Annus mirabilis, in John Dryden's 1667 poem so titled, celebrating England's failure to be beaten...
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  • both examples of ballad meter.) Decasyllabic quatrain used by John Dryden in Annus Mirabilis, William Davenant in Gondibert, and Thomas Gray Various hymns...
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  • influence on Dryden, who would prove to be the decasyllabic quatrain's most prominent practitioner. When Dryden published Annus Mirabilis in 1667, the...
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    Narrative and Dryden’s Annus Mirabilis. Eighteenth – Century Life, 29:1 (2005 Winter), pp. 82 – 108.* Dewar – Watson, Sarah: Dryden’s Aneis 2.718 – 41. Explicator...
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    Mr. Limberham; or, the Kind Keeper (category Plays by John Dryden)
    prostitutes, several of whom appear as minor characters in the play; in Annus Mirabilis, Dryden suggested Charles II's multiple mistresses demonstrated his generosity...
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    the second floor and stair turrets, was completed in 1607. John Dryden wrote Annus Mirabilis while staying at the house in 1667. Major alterations were...
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  • 1666 in England was the first year to be designated as an Annus mirabilis, in John Dryden's 1667 poem, which celebrated England's failure to be beaten...
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  • prince William Cavendishe, Duke, Marquess, and Earl of Newcastle John DrydenAnnus Mirabilis, the Year of Wonders 1666 Richard Head – The life and death...
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    my Lord Protector (1655) and by John Dryden in Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell and Annus Mirabilis. John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester uses...
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    Fiction. Manchester UP. Dryden, John (originally published in 1667). An Account of the Ensuing Poem, prefixed to Annus Mirabilis, from Project Gutenberg...
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    A Song for St. Cecilia's Day (category Poetry by John Dryden)
    (1687) is the first of two odes written by the English Poet Laureate John Dryden for the annual festival of Saint Cecilia's Day observed in London every...
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  • Casket, act 1, scene 1". www.perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-24. "annus horribilis". Webster's Dictionary. Retrieved 17 March 2018. "apologia pro...
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    The Spanish Friar (category Plays by John Dryden)
    The Spanish Friar, or the Double Discovery is a tragicomedy by John Dryden, produced and published in 1681. Torrismond, Son of Sancho, the deposed King...
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  • Sir John Denham, On Mr Abraham Cowley His Death, and Burial Amongst the Ancient Poets John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis; The Year of Wonders, 1666 John Milton...
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    The Duke of Guise (play) (category Plays by John Dryden)
    The Duke of Guise, a Tragedy is a tragedy by John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee, published in 1683. The King of France. Duke of Guise. Duke of Mayenne. Grillon...
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  • in English. 1667 – Publication of Paradise Lost by John Milton and of Annus Mirabilis by John Dryden The 17th-century port towns and their forms of speech...
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    century, with 1808 as a kind of annus mirabilis, when three new versions appeared." Some among these, like Dryden's and the Earl of Lauderdale's (1709)...
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  • Casket, act 1, scene 1". www.perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-24. "annus horribilis". Webster's Dictionary. Retrieved 17 March 2018. "apologia pro...
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  • and Earl of Newcastle John Dryden's poem Annus Mirabilis. Richard Head's apocryphal The life and death of Mother Shipton John Milton's epic poem Paradise...
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  • Leibniz. His discoveries this year lead to it being referred to as his Annus mirabilis or Newton's "Year of the Morning Star". Lund University is founded...
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