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Friday, November 30, 2007

The Satires of Dryden By John Dryden, John Churton Collins

The Satires of Dryden By John Dryden, John Churton Collins: "of Louis XIV who was to the England of Charles II what his predecessor Louis XI had been to the Switzerland of Charles the Bold and to the England of Edward IV From a jarring chaos of Cavaliers Puritans Eoman Catholics Presbyterians country parties of colliding interests of maddened Commons of a corrupted and corrupting ministry of a disaffected Church of plots and counter plots of a Royal house ostensibly in opposition but secretly in union two great parties had been gradually defining themselves In May 1662 the king had married Catharine of Braganza but he had no issue by her and as she had now 1679 been his wife for seventeen years they were not likely to have issue and the question of the succession "
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