Example sentences for: dryden

How can you use “dryden” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Dramatic Poesy & Other Essays, John Dryden, Everyman's Library, J.M. Dent, 1912, 1950, p. 100.

  • A few months ago, a colleague wrote saying that he had encountered my mention of it but had been unable to find any reference in Dryden's writings.

  • It is interesting to observe that Dryden, born only fifteen years after the death of Shakespeare, should a mere forty years later regard him as being of another age: clearly, three centuries ago people had quite a perception of time different from our own, largely, I believe, brought about by our more thorough documentation of the past hundred years in books, newspapers and other periodicals, photographs, films, and, more recently, videos.

  • 4 million advance from Harcourt Brace imprint Dryden Press.

  • For many years I was under the impression that John Dryden had inveighed against the ending of a sentence with a preposition, and I have included mention of it now and then in my writing.


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