 | John Dryden - 1713 - 614 pàgines
...his Arthurs. I will only fay that it was not for this Noble Knight that I drew the Plan of an Epick Poem on King Arthur in my Preface to the Tranflation...took his Hint.- For he began immediately upon the Story } tho' he had the Bafenefs not to acknowledge his Benefactor j but infteadof it, to traduce me... | |
 | John Dryden - 1767 - 392 pàgines
...noble knight that I drew the plan of an Epic poem on king Arthur, in my preface to the tranftation of Juvenal. The guardian angels of kingdoms were machines...too ponderous for him to manage ; and therefore he rejefted 4 them, them, as Dares did the whirlbats of Eryx, when they were thrown before him by Entellus.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 356 pàgines
...his two poems, becaufe nothing ill is to be fpoken of the dead : and therefore peace be to the Mar.;s of his Arthurs. I will only fay, that it was not for...ponderous for him to manage; and therefore he rejected the:n, as Dar:s did the whirlbats of Eryx, when they were thrown before him by Entellus. Yet from that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 364 pàgines
...Manes of his Arthurs. I will only^'ay, that it was not for this noble knight that I iirew the -pinn of an Epic poem on king Arthur, in my preface to the...too ponderous for him to manage; and therefore he rejefted them, as Dares did the whirlbats of Eryx, when they were thrown before him by Entellus. Yet... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 352 pàgines
...that I drew the._plan of an Epic poem on king Arthur, in my preface to"the tranflation of Juvenai. The guardian angels of kingdoms were machines too...ponderous for him to manage ; and therefore he rejected tl:em, as Dares did the whirlbats of Eryx, when they were thrown before him by EnteHus. Yet from that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 484 pàgines
...nation had not yet learned to be liberal. This plan he charged Blackmore with dealing ; only, fays he, the guardian angels of kingdoms were machines too -ponderous for him to manage. In 1694, he began the moft laborious and difficult of all his works, the tranflation of Virgil ; from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pàgines
...the nation yet learned to be liberal. This plan he charged Blackmore with ftealing ; only, (ays he, the guardian angels of kingdoms were machines too ponderous for him to manage. In 1694, he began the moft laborious and difficult of all his works, the tranflation of Virgil ; from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pàgines
...the nation yet learned to be liberal. This plan he charged Blackmore with ftealing ; only, fays he, the guardian angels of kingdoms were machines too ponderous for him to manage. In i694, he began the moft laborious and difficult of all his works, the tranflation of Virgil ; from... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 344 pàgines
...the nation yet learned to be liberal. This plan he charged Blackmore with ftealing; only fays he, " The guardian angels of *' kingdoms were machines too ponderous for *' him to manage." In 1694, he began the moft laborious and difficult of all his works, the tranflation of Virgil ; from... | |
 | 1793 - 806 pàgines
...ооЫ: knight that 1 drew the plan of an Epic pwm on King Arthur, in my preface to the truilhtion of Juvenal. The guardian angels of kingdoms were machines too ponderous for him M manage ; and therefore he rejeâed them, as Ihres did the whirlbats of Eryx, when they were thrown... | |
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I will only say, that it was not for this noble Knight that I drew the plan of an epic poem on King Arthur, in my preface to the translation of Juvenal. The Guardian Angels of kingdoms were machines too ponderous for him to manage... 
