 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pàgines
...which I am useing for my gravell, I am still drudgeing on : always a poet, and never a good one. 4 I pass my time sometimes with Ovid, and sometimes...so that it is not impossible, but ere the summer be pass'd, I may come i 4 Here, it is observable, our author speaks of himself with that modesty, which... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 pàgines
...which I am useing for my gravell, I am still drudgeing on : always a poet, and never a good one. 4 I pass my time sometimes with Ovid, and sometimes with our old English poet, Chaucer; translateing such stories as best please my fancy ; and intend besides them to add somewhat of my own... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 394 pàgines
...remedies which I am useing for my gravel, 1 am still drudgeing on: always a poet, and never a good one. I pass my time sometimes with Ovid, and sometimes with our old English poet Chaucer; translateing such stories as best please my fancy; and intend, besides them, to add somewhat of my... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 418 pàgines
...remedies which I am using for my gravel, I am still drudging on : always a poet, and never a good one. I pass my time sometimes with Ovid, and sometimes...so that it is not impossible, but ere the summer be passed, I may come down to you with a volume in my hand, like a dog out of the water, with a duck in... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 pàgines
...remedies which I am using for my gravel, I am still drudging on: always a poet, and never a good one. I pass my time sometimes with Ovid, and sometimes...so that it is not impossible, but ere the summer be passed, I may come down to you with a volume in my hand, like a dog out of the water, with a duck in... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 536 pàgines
...remedies which I aru useing for my gravel, I am still drtulgemg on : always a poet, and never a good one. I pass my time sometimes with Ovid, and sometimes with our old English poet Chaucer : translateing such stories as hest please my fancy ; and intend, hesides them, to add somewhat of... | |
 | Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 pàgines
...remedies which I am using for my gravel, I am still drudging on; always a poet, and never a good one. I pass my time sometimes with Ovid, and sometimes...so that it is not impossible, but ere the summer be passed, I may come down to you with a volume in my hand, like a dog out of the water, with a duck in... | |
 | Wiltshire Stanton Austin, John Ralph - 1853 - 452 pàgines
...dragging on, always a poet, and never a good one. I pass my time with Ovid, and sometimes with our old poet Chaucer, translating such stories as best please my fancy ; and intend besides them to add some of my own, so that it is not impossible, but ere the summer be passed, I may come down to you... | |
 | Wiltshire Stanton Austin, John Ralph - 1853 - 658 pàgines
...dragging on, always a poet, and never a good one. I pass my time with Ovid, and sometimes with our old poet Chaucer, translating such stories as best please my fancy ; and intend besides them to add some of my own, so that it is not impossible, but ere the summer be passed, I may come down to you... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 326 pàgines
...Mrs. Steward, of Cotterstock, Northamptonshire, dated Candlemas Day (Feb. 2), 1698-9, Dryden writes, " I pass my time sometimes with Ovid and sometimes with...so that it is not impossible but ere the summer be passed, I may come down to you with a volume in my hand, like a dog out of the water, with a duck in... | |
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I pass my time sometimes with Ovid, and sometimes with our old English poet Chaucer; translating such stories as best please my fancy; and intend besides them to add somewhat of my own: so that it is not impossible but ere the summer be 
