This excerpt from Annus Mirabilis by John Dryden : What is the central idea of the excerpt?

More great than human now, and more august,
Now deified she from her fires does rise:
Her widening streets on new foundations trust,
And opening into larger parts she flies.

Before, she like some shepherdess did show,
Who sat to bathe her by a river's side;
Not answering to her fame, but rude and low,
Nor taught the beauteous arts of modern pride.
. . .

Now, like a maiden queen, she will behold,
From her high turrets, hourly suitors come;
The

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This excerpt from Annus Mirabilis by John Dryden : What is the central idea of the excerpt?

More great than human now, and more august,
Now deified she from her fires does rise:
Her widening streets on new foundations trust,
And opening into larger parts she flies.

Before, she like some shepherdess did show,
Who sat to bathe her by a river's side;
Not answering to her fame, but rude and low,
Nor taught the beauteous arts of modern pride.
. . .

Now, like a maiden queen, she will behold,
From her high turrets, hourly suitors come;
The