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JOHN DRYDEN
Author(s) -
Makepeace John Foster
Publication year - 1922
Publication title -
new blackfriars
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1741-2005
pISSN - 0028-4289
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-2005.1922.tb02988.x
Subject(s) - reflexive pronoun , protestantism , philosophy , literature , art , theology
Finding that if he continued to call himself a Protestant his services would be overlooked, he declared himself a Papist. The king's parsimony instantly relaxed. Dryden was gratified with a pension of £100 a year, and was employed to defend his new religion both in prose and verse.