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Dryden wrote much in the political 
and politico-religious vein, often with a 
satirical humor, that has outlined his 
stage compositions. In Absalom and 
Achitophel, he argues against democracy, 
urging that ““The most may err as 
grossly as the few.’’ ‘The public keenly 
enjoyed seeing living statesmen held up 
to ridicule in the garb of Biblical story, 
and pilloried on the ancient stage. In 
the Hind and Panther, one of the most 
celebrated pieces of allegorical writing, 
the burning ecclesiastical questions 
of the age are treated under a very thin 
veil of fiction. His Religio Laici mag- 
nihes the authority of the church, mak- 
ing it little short of a religious despotism. 
It was aimed against both the Papists and 
the Puritans, or“‘ fanatics,’’ as they were 
generally called; it fitted in with Charles’ 
policy and won for its author royal 
favor. Other works of Dryden which 
have procured him renown are _ his 
Translations of Virgil, and his Imitations 
of Ovid, Boccacio and Chaucer; nor 
should mention be omitted of his two 
Odes on St. Cecilia’s Day, and Annus 
Mirabilis. 
A good specimen of Dryden’s verse, 
combining vigor with easy flow. of 
language, are his lines on Milton: 
** Three poets, in three distant ages born, 
Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. 
The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; 
The next in majesty; in both the last. 
The force of nature could no further go; 
To make a third, she joined the other two.’’ 
Dryden’s prose is superior to his 
poetry; it is clear, forcible, eloquent; 
it is seen at its best in some of his Pre- 
faces and in his Discourses on Satire and 
Epic and Dramatic Poetry. As_ utter- 
ances of a poet upon poets, these Dis- 
courses are full of right suggestions from 
an artist’s mind. Of the last, Dr. John- 
son says, “it was the first regular and 
_ valuable treatise on the art of writing.’’ 
In a few lines, he often draws the most 
~ admirable portraits, as in his picture of 
Shakespeare as a dramatist, of Ben Jon- 
_ son, of Chaucer and Cowley. In genre 
painting he is without a peer. He _ pro- 
fessed to have learned his style from 
— Tillotson, a master of prose, whom he 
resembled in clearness and force and 
whom he surpassed in ease and elegance. 
It may be said that Dryden brought 
forth his best fruit in the autumn of life; 
had he died at the age of forty-five, he 
would have left but an inconsiderable 
name behind him. He was nearly sev- 
_ enty when though a cripple i in his limbs, 
he tells us, he was conscious of no dé: 
_ cay in the faculties of his mind, except- 
ing that his memory was somewhat 
_ weaker; a signal instance of the fact 
_ often noticed that an intellectual life is 
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sway over his own age, and which he 
may be said -to have retained, largely 
through his disciple and liegeman Pope, 
over the succeeding one. His life went 
out with the close of the 17th century, 
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