ISBN: 9780217286947

John Dryden, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books works-of-John-Dryden-now-first-collected-in-eighteen-volumes~~John-Dryden General Books LLC Purchase of t… More...

John Dryden, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books works-of-John-Dryden-now-first-collected-in-eighteen-volumes~~John-Dryden General Books LLC Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ALBION AND ALBANIUS OPERA. Ditcitc jmtitiam, moniti, et non temnere divot. Viito. VOL. VII ALBION AND ALBANIUS. This opera, like the play which precedes it, had an avowed political object It was intended to celebrate the victory of the crown over its opponents, or, as our author would have expressed it, of loyalty over sedition and insurrection. The events, which followed the Restoration, are rapidly, but obviously and distinctly, traced down to the death of Charles, and the quiet accession of his brother, who after all the storms which had threatened to blast his prospects, found himself enabled to mount the throne, with ease sufficient to encourage him to the measures which precipitated him from that elevation. The leading incidents of the busy and intriguing reign of Charles II. are successively introduced in the following order. The city of London is discovered occupied by the republicans and fanatics, depicted under the allegorical personages Democracy and Zeal. General Monk, as Archon, charms the factions to sleep, and the Restoration is emblematized by the arrival of Charles, and the Duke of York, under the names of Albion and Albanius. The second act opens with a council of the fiends, where the Popish Plot is hatched, and Democracy and Zeal are dismissed, to propagate it upon earth, with Gates, the famous witness, in their train. The next entry presents Augusta, or London, stung by a snake, to intimate the revival of the popular faction in the metropolis. Democracy and Zeal, under the disguise of Patriotism and Religion, insinuate themselves into the confidence of the city, and are supposed to foment the parliamentary opposition, which, ending on the bill of exclusion, rendered it necessary, that the Duke of York should leave the kingdom. We have then, in a...<

ISBN: 9780217286947

John Dryden, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books, , works-of-John-Dryden-now-first-collected-in-eighteen-volumes~~John-Dryden, 999999999, The Works Of John… More...

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