John Dryden (9 Aug 1631 – 30 April 1700), nicknamed Town-Bayes, an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England.
Born in the village rectory of Aldwincle, Northamptonshire. The eldest of 14 children of Eramus Dryden and Mary Pickering – an Parliamentary supporting family with Puritan learnings.
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Hamlet O, that this too too solid flesh would melt
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!
How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,
That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely. That it should co
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가. Anglo-Saxon Period( -1100) : 고대영어
영어는 소위 Indo-European Language Families(印歐語族)에 속하는 언어들 중의 하나이다. 인구어는 Europe과 Indo에 산재한 대부분의 언어가 역사상 하나의 공통 기원을 지니고 있어서 붙여진 이름인데, 인구어族에 속하는 모든 언어의 근원이 되었다고 여겨