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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...
Dryden's most substantial benefit to literature was in his breaking away from the cumbrous classical expressions and forced metaphors with which the language was being strangled and in giving a strong impulse to the natural forms of expressions. Extravagant and fantastic in youth, his old age shows a clear and simple English, not very imaginative, not finely sentimental, but certainly strong, significant, graceful and forcible...
...youngest graduates from Harvard were Cotton Mather who graduated at the age of 16, Paul Dudley, at the age of 14 and Rev. A. P. Peabody...
...age of forty-five he made his immortal journey to Scotland What took him there no one can tell. After returning to London he was made Poet Lauriet, the first as we know it. Despite his income the wolf came to his door, and his life became one round of drink, debt, and medicancy, except when he shut himself up at his work...
Phillips Brooks was born in Boston. December 13, 1885. He was educated at the Boston Latin School, and entered Harvard at the age of 16. He graduated with the class of '55. After a short period of teaching, he decided to study for the Episcopal ministry. Having been pastor of the church of the Advent, and of the church of the Holy Trinity in Philadelphia, he was called in 1869 to the rectorship of Trinity church, Boston. In 1882-83 he spent his vacation in England, preaching in many of the London churches, and also on one occasion before...