 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1883 - 684 pàgines
...left the •tage. Ut which my genin« never much inclined me. for a work which would have üiken «p \ ҈ - c - ݀ 0 ] 0 th« honour of my native country, to which a poet la particularly obliged. Of two subject §. both... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1884 - 616 pàgines
...left the stage, to which my genius never much inclined me, for a work which would have taken up my hie in the performance of it. This, too, I had intended...my native country, to which a poet is particularly obliged. Of two subj, cts, both relating to it, I was doubtful whether I should choose that of King... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1885 - 352 pàgines
...poem) ; and to have left the stage, to which my genius never much inclined me, for a work which would have taken up my life in the performance of it. This, too, I had intended chiefly for the honor of my native country, to which a poet is particularly obliged. Of two subjects, both relating... | |
 | John Dryden - 1887 - 420 pàgines
...poem,) and to have left the stage, (to which my genius never much inclined me,) for a work which would have taken up my life in the performance of it This,...my native country, to which a poet is particularly obliged. Of two subjects, both relating to it, I was doubtful whether I should choose that of King... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1887 - 346 pàgines
...poem), and to have left the stage, to which my genius never much inclined me, for a work which would have taken up my life in the performance of it. This,...the honour of my native country, to which a poet is paticularly obliged. Of two subjects, both relating to it, I was doubtful whether I should choose that... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1888 - 682 pàgines
...poem) ; and to have left the stage, to which my genius never much inclined me, for a work which would have taken up my life in the performance of it. This, too, I had intended chiefly for the honor of my native country, to which a poet is particularly obliged. Of two subjects, both relating... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1887 - 676 pàgines
...poem) ; and to have left the stage, to which my genius never much inclined me, for a work which would have taken up my life in the performance of it. This, too, I had intended chiefly for the honor of my native country, to which a poet is particularly obliged. Of two subjects, both relating... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1890 - 612 pàgines
...poem) ; and to have left the stage, to which my genius never much inclined me, for a work which would have taken up my life in the performance of it. This,...my native country, to which a poet is particularly obliged. Of two subjects, both relating to it. I was doubtful whether I should choose that of King... | |
 | Sir Mungo William MacCallum - 1894 - 464 pàgines
...uncongenial story of Arthur as the subject of a national heroic. The composition of an epic, he says, " I had intended chiefly for the honour of my native country, to which a poet is particularly obliged. Of two subjects both relating to it, I was doubtful whether I should choose that of King Arthur... | |
 | John Dryden - 1895 - 266 pàgines
...poem) ; and to have left the stage, to which my genins never much inclined me, for a work which would have taken up my life in the performance of it. This,...my native country, to which a poet is particularly obliged: of two subjects, both relating to it, I was doubtful whether I should choose that of King... | |
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I had intended to have put in practice, (though far unable for the attempt of such a poem,) and to have left the stage, to which my genius never much inclined me, for a work which would have taken up my life in the performance of it. This too I had intended... 
