 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...  The Works of the English Poets: Dryden - Page 43by Samuel Johnson - 1779Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1827 - 566 pages
...to be spoken of the dead ; and, therefore, peace be to the manes of his ' Arthurs.' I will only say, that it was not for this noble knight that I drew...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;... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1829 - 344 pages
...to be spoken of the dead; and, therefore, peace be to the manes of his ' Arthurs.' I will only say, that it was not for this noble knight that I drew...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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...be spoken of the dead : and therefore peace be to the Manes of his Arthurs. I will only say, that 1t was not for this noble knight that I drew the plan...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 516 pages
...to he spoken of the dead ; and, therefore^ peace be to the manes of his ' Arthurs.' I will only say, that it was not for this noble knight that I drew the plan of aa epic poem on King Arthur, in my preface to the translation of Juvenal. The guardian angels of kingdoms... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...the nation yet learned to be liberal. This plan he charged Blackmore with stealing; "only," says he, / / / / In 1694, he began the most laborious and difficult of all his works, the translation of Virgil ; from... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 pages
...he to the Manes of his Arthurs. l will only say, that it was not for this nohle knight that l dpew the plan of an Epic poem on king Arthur, in my preface to tho translations of Juvenal. Tho guardian angels oí kingdoms were machines too ponderous for him to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...nation yet learned to be liberal. This plan he charged ' '° Blackmore with stealing ; only, says he, " The guardian angels of kingdoms were machines too ponderous for him to manage." ul In 1094 he began the most laborious and difficult of all his works, the translation of Virgil ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...nation yet learned to be liberal. This plan he charged Blackmore with stealing ; " only," says he, " the guardian angels of kingdoms were machines too ponderous for him to manage." preface, which he boasts to have written in twelve mornings, exhibits a parallel of poetry and painting,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1855 - 380 pages
...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...ponderous for him to manage ; and therefore he rejected i hem, as Dares did the whirlbats of Eryx, when they were thrown before him by Entcllus. Yet from that... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 pages
...and therefore peace he to the Manes of his Arthurs. I will only say, that it was not for this nohle knight that I drew the plan of an Epic poem on king Arthur, in my preface to the translations of Juvenal. T^e guardian angels of Kingdoms were machines too ponderous for him to manage... | |
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