 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 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 10 it, I was doubtful whether I should choose that of King... | |
 | John Dryden - 1926 - 342 pàgines
...and to have left the stage, (to which my genius never much inclined 35 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 5 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... 
