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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: "INTRODUCTION TO ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL the fall of Clarendon in August 1667 to the of Shaftesbury in January 1683 England was in high state of ferment and agitation The mad joy of 1660 had undergone its natural reaction and this reaction was intensified by a long series of national calamities and political blunders There were feuds in the Cabinet and among the people the religion of the country was iii imminent peril the Royal house had become a centre of perfidy and disaffection Clarendon had been made the scape goat of the disasters which marked the commencement of the reign of the miserable squabbles attendant on the Act of Indemnity of the first Dutch War of the Sale of Dunkirk but Clarendon was now in exile and with him was removed one of the very few honourable ministers in the service of the Stuarts The Triple Alliance April 1668 was followed by the"
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