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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: He had now reached his sixty-sixth year. His life had been
saddened by blindness, his health enfeebled by illness, his
domesticity troubled by his first marriage and his last, his
desires disappointed by the result of political events. So that
when, on the 10th of November, 1674, death summoned him, he
departed without regret.
Amongst those who visited Milton was John Dryden, whom the author
of "Paradise Lost" regarded as "a good rhymester, but no poet,"
an opinion with which posterity has not held. At the
restoration, John Dryden was in his twenty-ninth year. The son
of Sir Erasmus Dryden, Baronet, of Canons Ashby, he enjoyed an
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