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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: "against his own subjects should they attempt to oppose his designs Between the end of 1667 and the beginning of 1674 the government was in the hands of the Cabal the most unprincipled and profligate ministry in the annals of our constitutional history Then followed the administration of Danby Danby with all his faults had the honesty to exchange the shuffling and ignominious tactics of the Cabal for cordial and consistent hatred of the French abroad and of Papists and Nonconformists at home The Peace of Nimeguen August 1678 threw England back on herself Danby fell partly because no minister at such a time could hold his own for long mainly owing to the machinations 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 Ca"
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